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advocacy, community, conversation starter, ideas, presenting, rabble rousing, social profit, the future, theatrical ecosystem
Artisphere: What Could Be…
01.07.13 | Permalink | 2 CommentsThe DC Theatre community took a hit recently when Artisphere announced that due to a policy change its resident theatre company WSC Avant Bard would be kicked out in the middle of its season. I feel deeply for the company; it is upsetting have your home taken from you and I wish them all the [...]
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#stealthisidea, collaboration, community, conversation starter, presenting, producers, theatrical ecosystem
Four Gentlemen of Verona?
12.10.12 | Permalink | 2 Comments[Ed Note: This post originally ran on Tales of a Squishy Morph] We have two Equity theatre companies in the Boston area in devoted primarily to Shakespeare. Commonwealth Shakespeare Company does a splashy outdoor free production on Boston Common every summer, while Actors Shakespeare Project does full seasons of edgy productions in a variety of metro-Boston venues. I don’t [...]
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cities, festivals, fringe festival, ideas, presenting, producers, storefront theatre, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
Fringe: The Importance of Venues
In my role as executive director of the South Florida Theatre League, I regularly get asked why South Florida doesn’t have a fringe festival. If we can support one of the largest and most important art festivals in the country, why aren’t we able to support a fringe? It’s an interesting question. Multiple people have [...]
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audiences, broadway, collaboration, conferences, conversation starter, ideas, presenting, producers, rabble rousing, social media, theatrical ecosystem
Just a Dream Away
There’s a great, big, beautiful tomorrow Shining at the end of every day There’s a great, big, beautiful tomorrow And tomorrow’s just a dream away Walking into the darkened New World Stages for TEDxBroadway, I half expected to see a sign saying “Presented by General Electric,” or at least a robot welcoming me to the [...]
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arts administration, audiences, festivals, locavore, marketing, new play development, new plays, new technology, non-profit theatre, playwrights, presenting, social media, steal this idea, storytelling, the future, theatre festivals, video, watch this
Steal This Idea: Cutting Your Way Through the NEVER HEARD OF IT Barrier
As the founder and now social media manager for Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival, I have recently had the delightful and curious experience of being able to dip my finger daily into the stream of material our 100 plus world premiere projects have created to promote their shows. I asked myself, how can I harness this [...]
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collaboration, community, conversation starter, development, ideas, major regional theatre, new play development, non-profit theatre, presenting, producers, rabble rousing, the future, theatrical ecosystem
The Legend of Zelda
…and what it means for our future. I was a lucky audience member for the Oct 26th SDC Zelda Fichandler Award presentation at Arena Stage (which was given, this year, to Blanka Zizka of Wilma Theater). I wanted to attend, in part, because I had just joined the stage directors and choreographers union a few [...]
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audiences, collaboration, corporate sponsors, designers, development, devised work, directors, dramaturgy, funding and support, ideas, new plays, non-profit theatre, playwrights, presenting, producers, the process
Devised Theatre: Transitioning to Production
Previously in this column: The members of Bright Alchemy Theatre, a very young devised theatre company based in Washington, DC, have spent the last nine months working on its new project which began with the question: Why do we as a species feel the need to tell stories about our own destruction? This weekend, for [...]
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development, devised work, directors, dramaturgy, marketing, p.r., presenting, producers, Uncategorized
Play on the beach…
Here in Vancouver, as a theatre producer, one of your greatest challenges is simply finding space. We have two major theatre companies, The Vancouver Playhouse and the Arts Club, that own their own theatres, but other than that, the 100-or-so independent theatre companies in the city all are fighting for a piece of the half-dozen [...]
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advocacy, audiences, collaboration, community, conversation starter, festivals, ideas, new plays, partnerships, presenting, rabble rousing, social media, theatrical ecosystem
Ask Not.
04.05.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsAsk not what your country can do for the arts, ask what the arts can do for the country. — Kevin Spacey The 24th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy April 4, 2011, 6:30 p.m. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts At exactly the same time as Kevin Spacey was [...]
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conversation starter, ideas, livestreams, new plays, presenting, producers, technical work, the process, theatrical ecosystem, video
A Wonderful And
On January 21st of this year, my producing partners and I began previews of the first of its kind, interactive live streamed play. This was a full length production of Joey Brenneman’s Better Left Unsaid, cast with professional New York actors, staged in a small off-off broadway house in front of a live audience for [...]
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advocacy, audiences, conversation starter, development, ideas, major regional theatre, marketing, new plays, non-profit theatre, playwrights, presenting, producers, rabble rousing, the process, theatrical ecosystem
#Newplay: The Undelivered Rant
02.03.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsIndulge me in a little rhetorical drama, I have, on occasion, so indulged many of you. The USA needs theatre. We are a potentially free and democratic people, but when the citizens become disenchanted and politically disengaged, we disenfranchise ourselves and cede leadership to those who can tolerate swimming in a political cesspool. Theatre makes [...]
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conversation starter, development, meetup, new plays, non-profit theatre, playwrights, presenting
#Newplay: New Orleans
FROM SOUTHERN REP, New Orleans, LA A CONVERSATION IN RESPONSE TO NEW PLAY PANEL When you talk about diversity – what does that really mean? If your audience doesn’t reflect that – what is diverse? If you want a diverse audience, are you doing work that would reflect that? Only the institution knows what kinds [...]
