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Devised Theatre: Apocalypse as sequel
03.14.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsSo, here we are. Week two and hip-deep in the initial group dramaturgy of Bright Alchemy’s devising process, which started with the question “Why do we as a species feel compelled to tell stories of our own destruction?” It’s very early, but I’m already beginning to get that familiar feeling of drowning in images and [...]
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actors, conversation starter, development, devised work, dramaturgy, education, ideas, new plays, playwrights, producers, the process
Devised Theatre: There’s a 10:30 in the morning?
Wherein I blog Bright Alchemy’s devising process for its newest project. My living room is full of artists eating baked goods and mainlining coffee. The latter is not surprising, since it’s 10:30 A.M. on a Sunday. What is surprising is that a dozen theatre-makers chose to subject themselves to this sun-drenched world while there was [...]
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conversation starter, devised work, ideas, non-profit theatre, playwrights, producers, rabble rousing, storefront theatre, technical work, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Devised Theatre: WTF?
What the F@#k is Devised Theatre (Or How I Accidently Helped Start a Theatre Company) One of the great conversations that has arisen from Arena Stage’s New Play Convening is this discussion about devised theatre: what is it; who does it; why do they bother? As people started trying to answer these questions, there were [...]
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conversation starter, dramaturgy, ideas, producers, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem, Uncategorized
OSF: To Kill a Mockingbird & the Iconic White Hero
02.26.11 | Permalink | 3 CommentsTom Robinson (Peter Macon), Atticus Finch (Mark Murphey) and Heck Tate (Peter Frechette) in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Photo: David Cooper. Ashland’s a snowy, somewhat icy town this weekend for the opening weekend of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. First up last night was the Bill Rauch-directed Measure for Measure, which I [...]
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advocacy, arts administrators, funding and support, ideas, producers, rabble rousing, supply / demand, theatrical ecosystem
Get A (Full) Job
02.24.11 | Permalink | 24 CommentsI’m really happy for Gwydion here. He’s found a situation that works for him as an artist, and I wouldn’t wish him anything differently. But as he points out so well, not every artist has the luxury of a cool company, doing work that so well complements their art. And in the end, my own [...]
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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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audiences, conversation starter, facts + figures, ideas, producers
Spider-Man: Broadway Isn’t The Finish Line
02.17.11 | Permalink | 5 CommentsThe New York critics have weighed in, so what’s left? What I haven’t heard mentioned in articles and reviews about Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is that, in 2011, for a mega-musical of this kind, Broadway is just an out-of-town tryout. Instead, the producers’ goal is to have a show that will eventually be up and running in [...]
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new plays, producers, rabble rousing, theatrical ecosystem
I’m starting my theater company, damn it.
02.16.11 | Permalink | 12 CommentsAs someone in the process of starting my own theater company, I was predisposed to take issue with Rebecca Novick’s post. It ended up upsetting me less than I predicted, but I maintain what I predicted my position would be: I’m starting my theater company, damn it. Not that I have a choice. Directors, designers, [...]
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education, new plays, producers, theatre festivals
Making Lifelong Arts Supporters in Oregon
I was a fan of children’s theatre starting as a little kid in a music/drama toddler class (seriously). The Wolf in Little Red Riding Hood scared me silly at age 4; I took part in many a play at school and in special drama programs (Camellot Academy in Kansas City) — and as an adult [...]
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ideas, non-profit theatre, producers, rabble rousing, supply / demand, theatrical ecosystem
Don’t Start…
02.15.11 | Permalink | 22 CommentsPlease Don’t Start a Theater Company, I Say Again… In 2009, I read with interest a call from Edward Clapp, a graduate student at Harvard, for essays on the future of the arts by arts workers under 40. Thinking about what to write, I recalled a conversation I’d had just before that with a young [...]
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producers, profile, q & a, theatre festivals
Q&A: Bobby Bermea, BaseRoots Theatre
Introducing … Bobby Bermea, who serves as the artistic director of BaseRoots Theatre, a newish theatre company in Portland, Oregon. BaseRoots was founded on Juneteenth, 2009, and its mission statement says that it’s “a group of professional theater artists organized to build bridges between communities by presenting classical and contemporary theatre that showcases the unique [...]
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arts service organizations, conversation starter, development, ideas, new plays, playwrights, producers, rabble rousing, theatrical ecosystem
A different language.
02.09.11 | Permalink | 2 CommentsI had the distinct pleasure of traveling to Arena Stage two weeks ago to be part of one of the most important national new play convenings in recent history. In 2011, the very act of discussing new work means you’ve got to be rabidly thorough about inviting in as many of our visionary artists and [...]
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