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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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advocacy, collaboration, community, conferences, conversation starter, follow friday, ideas, major regional theatre, marketing, meetup, neverbedark, newplaytv, non-profit theatre, partnerships, playwrights, producers, rabble rousing, social profit, talk about what's good, the future, theatrical ecosystem
Follow Friday: 18 Nov 2011
What can we learn from the birth of the regional theatre movement? Which arts administrator has reached a mass-critical critical mass? Where did Verdi and Shakespeare work to support their writing habits? How many theatres are we going to have to occupy? Why do we call it play? These are the stories we’ve been following [...]
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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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alternatives, arts administration, board members, ideas, mission, non-profit theatre, producers, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Other People’s Mission
10.28.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsOther people’s money is not just the name of a play by Jerry Sterner. It is the temptation put before an “agent” when working on behalf of a “principal” that gives rise to “moral hazard.” Other people’s money is also what nonprofit organizations – like theatre companies – use to produce work. There is a [...]
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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, funding and support, ideas, non-profit theatre, producers, rabble rousing, supply / demand, talk about what's good, the future, the process, theatrical ecosystem
What You’ve Never Had
08.24.11 | Permalink | 11 CommentsThe non-profit model is living on borrowed time. The current model is dying. Even still, I think we spend more time trying to figure out how to fund a show than actually making the show. Read: The way we make money to make art is not sustainable. Insanity: Doing the same thing again and again [...]
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collaboration, development, ideas, new plays, partnerships, playwrights, producers, the future, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Roll On.
Roll On, Strange Little Plays. Roll On. I will start off saying this: rolling world premieres should be the ONLY way plays premiere. With consecutive and distinct productions a new play gets the essential time and community to mature rapidly, thoroughly, and cradled by friendly forces. Awww. A play becomes itself in production, less so [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, corporate sponsors, development, directors, education, ideas, new plays, producers, sponsorship, technical work, the future, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Do whatever a spider can.
07.07.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsIn case you’ve been in a coma for the last year, there’s this Broadway musical, it’s called Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and it’s made some headlines. There were accidents and script problems and fights with critics and the official opening kept being pushed further back and back and back and…etc. Basically, it redefined the [...]
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actors, arts service organizations, collaboration, community, corporate sponsors, designers, development, devised work, dramaturgy, ideas, new plays, non-profit theatre, partnerships, playwrights, producers, the process, Uncategorized
Devised Theatre: Terrible Practicalities
Previously in this column: Bright Alchemy Theatre, a very young company devoted to the creation of devised work, decides to begin work on a narrative and thematic sequel to A Cre@tion Story for Naomi, which explored the world’s creation myths. We began this new process with a question: Why do we feel the need to [...]
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arts administrators, arts service organizations, audiences, conversation starter, marketing, producers
What Every Theater Website Needs
04.09.11 | Permalink | 10 CommentsPlease. If you are a board member, artist, or employee of a theater company, understand that most people are not visiting your website because they like you, or because they want to like you. First and foremost, they are visiting your website for information. All the glossy photos, taglines, and rave reviews will not give [...]
