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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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conversation starter, development, new plays, playwrights, producers, rabble rousing, theatrical ecosystem
Who’s the Cowboy Mouth?
So apparently the following is too “abusive” or “off topic” for the NY TIMES to post on its Arts Beat page. One thing you can’t do in posts, I guess, is criticize the critics. But because this conversation means a lot to me, and because I’ve been in it for so damn long, I’m posting [...]
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meetups, new plays, non-profit theatre, producers
#NewPlay: Los Angeles (#LAThtr)
02.07.11 | Permalink | 4 CommentsThe main thrust that came out of the #NewPlay Los Angeles (#LAThtr) watch party was that the issues we were hearing during part one of the action steps portion were not the same issues expressed from the Los Angeles theater practitioners in the room. Photo taken by Cindy Marie Jenkins We started the meetup discussing [...]
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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, directors, ideas, marketing, new plays, playwrights, presenting, producers, storefront theatre
The Solo Show, Minus The Oh No
Passed around Twitter feeds, posted on Facebook walls: last week’s Onion joke article. Funny, but with a twinge of ouch—not because I have ever wanted to tell the story of my life onstage, but because at different times I have written, directed, and produced non-confessional one-actor plays. Doing so, if anyone is going to show up, requires [...]
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actors, advocacy, directors, producers, technical work
With Great Power…
12.21.10 | Permalink | 9 CommentsI don’t think anything that’s really creative can be done without danger or risk. — Julie Taymor I’m not here to judge the merits of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. I haven’t seen the play, I’ve only heard one less-than-thrilling song. But I do know the people involved are capable of excellent work. Bono and [...]
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conversation starter, development, dramaturgy, funding and support, new plays, non-profit theatre, playwrights, presenting, producers
Play Development: Necessary evil? Necessary? Evil?
11.30.10 | Permalink | 34 CommentsI attended an inspiring and provoking event last night, the New York Theatre Experiment’s second “Generations” event, where Michael Mayer, Denis O’Hare, and Annie Baker talked about the future of theater. A lot of juicy topics came up, many of which I think would be fodder for their own panel – one of which was [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, devised work, ideas, marketing, playwrights, producers, rabble rousing, social media, the process
Build It and They Will Come
In the fairly recent past, an active subject of conversation that kept resurfacing was the content of current shows in the commercial sector. Namely, the fact that a majority of new productions on Broadway are based on pre-extant Intellectual Property. Of course many artists aren’t too thrilled about this when there’s so much great ORIGINAL [...]
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facts + figures, funding and support, ideas, marketing, producers, theatrical ecosystem
I wish I knew then…
08.25.10 | Permalink | 9 CommentsThis past weekend at the Chicago Theatre anti-Conference (#ctac, if you feel like swimming up the Twitter stream), erstwhile arts-administrators-turned-funders Christy Uchida, Boeing Chicago’s Community Investor, and Paul Botts, from the Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelly Foundation, gave conference attendees the gift of some hard-won insights through a discussion entitled, “If I knew then what I [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, ideas, marketing, presenting, producers, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Warming Up
Before we get to the post, a joke. The joke. Man goes on vacation, leaves his cat with his parents. A week later, he comes home, goes to pick up the cat. And his dad says, “Sorry, son, the cat’s dead.” “Jesus, Dad, you couldn’t have broken it to me gently? When did this–” “The [...]
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