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DEINDE: First Weekend Rehearsal Report

DEINDE: First Weekend Rehearsal Report

Post by August Schulenburg. Photos by Isaiah Tanenbaum. The first and most important thing to say is that we have a shot – a real, legitimate chance – at a great production. We always try to create at least a good production, but we take on risky, ambitious plays, and part of that risk is…

Happy World Theatre Day 2012

Happy World Theatre Day 2012

(Post by August Schulenburg) Flux Theatre Ensemble is a part of the NYC World Theatre Day Coalition and is participating in World Theatre Day 2012 primarily through our upcoming ForePlay:Human 2.0 event on March 26. Theatre Communications Group (where I work), which serves as the U.S. Center of the International Theatre Institute (ITI-US), invites all theatres,…

Hard Core (Values): On Apologies

Hard Core (Values): On Apologies

(Post and photo by August Schulenburg) Yesterday was not the finest day in my role as a Creative Partner and Artistic Director of Flux. I made three mistakes – in scheduling enough time for auditions (more on that anon), in choosing how many pages playwrights could bring to Flux Sunday (I let them bring too…

Flux Sunday, 3/11

Flux Sunday, 3/11

(What is Flux Sunday?) Playwrights: Katherine Burger (The Rainy Season), Nat Cassidy (Old Familiar Faces), August Schulenburg (Encryption, The Fields of Blue and Glow) Directors: Murdock Lucas, Heather Cohn Actors: Isaiah Tanenbaum, Emily Hartford, Stephanie Cox-Williams, Anna Lamadrid, Alexis Thomason, Will Lowry, David Stallings, Ken Glickfeld After the past two mega-Sundays, it was nice to…

DEINDE Tickets Now Available

DEINDE Tickets Now Available

(Post by August Schulenburg. Photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum.) Tickets for DEINDE are now on sale, and per our usual custom, we’re offering a discount for early ticket buyers. Use the code VIRUS for $10 tix to our first four shows: 4/27, 4/28, 4/29 and 5/1. There are only 40 of these initial tickets available, and…

ForePlay: Human 2.0 – March 26

ForePlay: Human 2.0 – March 26

(Post by August Schulenburg. Photos by and of Isaiah Tanenbaum, with graphic design by Will Lowry) Our exploratory play reading series ForePlay, where playwrights riff on the themes of our mainstage production, is back! Join us on Monday, March 26th from 7 to ??pm at Fontana’s, 105 Eldridge Street for the kick-off event of Human…

DEINDE: Costumes

DEINDE: Costumes

(Post by August Schulenburg. Photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Ken Glickfeld, Rachael Hip-Flores, Nitya Vidyasagar, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Davin Ian Lee) Rule One: Don’t make the future look like The Future. After all, DEINDE is set less than 40 years in the future, so the clothes we’re wearing now should feel then like the clothes of…

DEINDE: The QuamBi Logo

DEINDE: The QuamBi Logo

Post by August Schulenburg. All designs by Will Lowry. DEINDE is set in 2051 primarily in the premiere quantum biology lab, QuamBi. (Want to learn more about Quantum Biology?) To that end, we knew we needed a logo for QuamBi, something that could be used for both the design elements and transmedia world-building we may…

Flux Sunday, 3/4

Flux Sunday, 3/4

(What is Flux Sunday?) Playwrights: Katherine Burger (The Rainy Season), Fengar Gael (The Draper’s Eye), August Schulenburg (The Fields of Blue and Glow, Encryption, The Iron Hours) Directors: Pete Boisvert, Murdock Lucas, Marielle Duke Actors: Anna Lamadrid, Alberto Bonilla, Emily Hartford, Will Lowry, Jane Taylor, Isaiah Tanenbaum Stephanie Cox-Williams, Ken Glickfeld, Matthew Trumbull, John Albano,…

ForePlay: Human 2.0

ForePlay: Human 2.0

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Brian Pracht, Rachael Hip-Flores, Matthew Murumba, Kari Swenson Riely in New World Iliads #1) By August Schulenburg, photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum Our exploratory play reading series ForePlay, where playwrights riff on the themes of our mainstage production, is back! That’s right, we have a winner in a squeaker between iSapiens and…

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