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QR Codes: What’s a Theatre to Do?
09.08.10 | Permalink | View CommentsMashable proclaims that QR codes are poised to hit the mainstream. So what’s a theater to do? First, what are QR codes? QR = Quick Response. They are square bar codes packed with more dense information than the traditional bar code you recognize, and are most often linked to a website. If you have a [...]
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about 2am, conversation starter, ideas, meetups, rabble rousing, social media, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem, video, watch this
Watch this: 2amt in the 3rd Dimension
09.04.10 | Permalink | View CommentsWant to see us live and direct from the first annual Chicago Fringe Festival? Streaming via the #newplay channel from Arena Stage, we go live at 10:30 am CT, 11:30 am ET, Saturday, September 4th, 2010. Kris Vire, theatre editor at Time Out Chicago, is the moderator. The panel includes Bilal Dardai of The Neo-Futurists [...]
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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
09.04.10 | Permalink | View CommentsIn 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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conversation starter, follow friday, ideas, rabble rousing, social media, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Follow Friday: 03 September 2010
09.03.10 | Permalink | View CommentsWhat are we looking at this week at 2amt? The Chicago Fringe Festival is on, kidz. Philanthropy may be for the old, but surprisingly, so is social media. Rocco Landesman visited the Twin Cities. Anne Bogart connects science and performance. And somebody sprang the Mousetrap… We might be a little light on descriptions this week [...]
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about 2am, conversation starter, ideas, rabble rousing, social media, the process, theatrical ecosystem, video, watch this
Watch This: 2amt at the CT(a)C
08.31.10 | Permalink | View CommentsFrom the Chicago Theatre (anti) Conference held at the Theater Wit complex in Chicago, here’s the 2amt session, featuring Nick Keenan and myself as recorded by Kyle Hamman… 2amtheatre Talk at Chicago Theatre (anti) Conference from KBH Media on Vimeo. It’s a fun talk (as I recall) and should whet your appetite for this weekend’s [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, marketing, social media
You’ve Got a Friend
08.19.10 | Permalink | View CommentsSo in the last blink of the internet a poor AD in Edmonton dropped his guard for a moment, blew off some steam, and didn’t get away with anything. At all. Ever. Mr. Jeff Haslam still thinks people are unhappy with him because he commented publically not because of what he said. If you are [...]
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marketing, producers, social media, theatrical ecosystem
Speechless
08.18.10 | Permalink | View CommentsSpeak softly and carry a big stick. – Theodore Roosevelt Before we begin, if you haven’t already, read a cautionary tale about comments by the artistic director of Edmonton’s Teatro La Quindicina and then his explanation of those comments. I can wait. Are you back? Okay. There’s a difference between earnest defense and hissy fit. [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, education, ideas, marketing, social media, the process
How to be sociable.
08.11.10 | Permalink | View CommentsAt the American Shakespeare Center, we are getting ready to expand our social media footprint. Internally, this plan has met with a rich combination of excitement and concern. What happens when we let our ASC family loose on Twitter, YouTube, and blogs? How can we make sure that we are all representing the ASC in [...]
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2amt podcast, social media, theatre festivals, theatrical ecosystem
2amt Podcast: Fringe On the Top
08.06.10 | Permalink | View CommentsSummertime means festivals, fringe and otherwise. In today’s podcast, we’ll hear from some of the playwrights who attended the JAW Festival at Portland Center Stage, including Rob Handel, managing director of 13P, and Jason Wells. Then we visit the Toronto Fringe Festival with playwright Alison Broverman. Finally, Rebecca Coleman talks with Jeremy Banks, who’s been [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, development, ideas, marketing, producers, social media, theatrical ecosystem
How social are you?
07.29.10 | Permalink | View Commentsor, Please Don’t Be a Fair Weather Friend… A few weeks ago, I started writing this post. I didn’t even have the guts to put it on my own blog. I decided to write it for 2am Theatre. Then I saw this excellent post on PR For Smarties. So I immediately emailed Karen and asked [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, devised work, ideas, playwrights, pull quotes, rabble rousing, social media
Pull Quotes: 2Twt or Not 2Twt
07.14.10 | Permalink | View CommentsIt should be clear that we at 2amt like Twitter just fine. But where do you draw the line? After this story about how some theatres in Australia are using Twitter during performances, an idea that some theatres are trying in the U.S., the question started flying around the #2amt hashtag. Here are a couple [...]
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corporate sponsors, funding and support, non-profit theatre, social media, sponsorship, storefront theatre
Leveraging psychology
07.12.10 | Permalink | View CommentsIn our irrational minds, this is no longer about Chase’s money that we might win. Instead, this is our $20,000 to lose. This is a big difference, and it makes us more more anxious, and it will feel a lot worse to lose the $20,000 than it would have felt good to win it.
