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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 Comments

  In 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 [...]

• conversation starter, facts + figures, ideas, marketing, social media, sponsorship, theatrical ecosystem, Uncategorized

  QR Codes: What’s a Theatre to Do?

  09.08.10 | Permalink | 18 Comments

  Mashable 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 [...]

• charity, conversation starter, corporate sponsors, development, facts + figures, funding and support, ideas, marketing, meetup, sponsorship, theatrical ecosystem

  Event Horizons

  09.02.10 | Permalink | Comment?

  At the recent Chicago Theater (anti-)Conference hosted by Theater Wit, I received a lot of questions about events. I’ve got some pretty strong feelings about them. I’ve planned about a zillion and I gotta say, I rarely love the process. But, I like going to events. I enjoy knocking back my free glasses of wine, [...]

• corporate sponsors, funding and support, non-profit theatre, social media, sponsorship, storefront theatre

  Leveraging psychology

  07.12.10 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  In 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.

• audiences, charity, conversation starter, corporate sponsors, designers, development, directors, funding and support, ideas, non-profit theatre, presenting, producers, rabble rousing, sponsorship, storefront theatre, technical work, the process, theatrical ecosystem

  Dream a dream

  06.24.10 | Permalink | 9 Comments

  After the first sustained pause in the conversation between (sober) theatremakers the party question of choice is “what is your dream project?” It’s a fun topic and generally it means you don’t have to talk for a minute which limits your probability of saying something stupid. It works best for actors and directors and pretty [...]

• charity, conversation starter, corporate sponsors, funding and support, ideas, non-profit theatre, rabble rousing, sponsorship, theatrical ecosystem

  Where your mouth is.

  06.22.10 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  You can vote for my theatre company if you want to, I won’t stop you. And I do appreciate the gesture. Note, I’m not saying what the vote is for, or who will benefit from it. Because in the end, it won’t be my theatre company, will it? Chase, Pepsi and American Express are all [...]