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the process
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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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actors, audiences, directors, dramaturgy, education, ideas, the process
The Strip of (Textual) Terror
08.24.10 | Permalink | View CommentsCollation line. Apparatus. Strip of terror. Whatever you call it, it’s that somewhat inscrutable line or two of apparently Enigma code between the text and the annotations, particularly in a modern edition of, say, Shakespeare. It might seem irrelevant or irretrievably geeky, but there are all kinds of important, dramatically compelling questions lurking amid the [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, ideas, marketing, presenting, producers, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Warming Up
08.19.10 | Permalink | View CommentsBefore 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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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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conversation starter, dramaturgy, playwrights, pull quotes, the process
Pull Quotes: Long Distance Relationship
07.01.10 | Permalink | View CommentsSome more pull quotes, this time a quick conversation from Twitter between playwright Kristoffer Diaz and Tony Adams, artistic director of Halcyon Theatre in Chicago, maybe spinning off a little from comments on yesterday’s post about scripts and AD’s…
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actors, directors, dramaturgy, the process
Theatre behind the walls
06.27.10 | Permalink | View Comments“Theatre inspires me.” “Theatre teaches me about myself, and helps me to understand why other people do what they do.” “Theatre relaxes me.” “Theatre teaches me empathy.” “Everyone in my life was a backstabber or a deceiver. I never knew what trust was until I started making theatre.” I didn’t say any of these things; [...]
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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 | View CommentsAfter 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 [...]
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conversation starter, follow friday, ideas, marketing, rabble rousing, social media, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Follow Friday: 07 May 2010
05.07.10 | Permalink | View CommentsThank God it’s on Friday again. Here are some of the stories we’ve been following at 2amt. This week’s batch includes one word, two words, dirty words, not-so-dirty words, digital analogs, a submission statement and even a touch of Dr. Seuss… Brittney Filek-Gibson on partying down Spinning off of Trisha Mead’s 2amt post from last [...]
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actors, audiences, conversation starter, development, devised work, directors, ideas, major regional theatre, marketing, playwrights, presenting, producers, the process, theatrical ecosystem
A Theater Should Be Like A Bookstore
04.11.10 | Permalink | View CommentsNot just any bookstore, but specifically this bookstore: Montague Bookmill in Montague, Massachusetts. Seth Godin sums it up well when he stated: This is the bookstore of the future, because it’s not a business trying to maximize growth and ROI. No, it’s a place, an attitude, an approach to an afternoon. They don’t sell every [...]
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audiences, conversation starter, directors, dramaturgy, ideas, playwrights, producers, rabble rousing, the process, theatrical ecosystem
Sellars Notes, January 2008
04.06.10 | Permalink | View CommentsSo many live, perishable experiences hang on the decision to leave the house, the decision to take the trouble to go to the venue before the event no longer exists. I remember weighing the $20 cab fare it would cost me to make it to Mandel Hall at the University of Chicago in time to [...]
