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Making Espresso, Or Diamonds

“All biological science works by collecting complexity and recognizing it is part of a limited repertoire of events. What’s exciting about the genome is it’s gotten us the big picture and allowed us to see the simplicity.”-Jon Cohen, “The Human Genome, A Decade Later”, Technology Review This rather lovely quote about the narrative of the…

Two Interviews About Collaboration

Check out this great interview at Works by Women of our own Heather Cohn! Heather has some great thoughts about Flux’s programming, gender equity, and our upcoming production of Erin Browne’s Menders. While you’re at it, our amazing Dog Act postcard illustrator Kristy Caldwell has a fascinating post about her process (and ours) here. I…

Have Another #5

It’s back! Our next installment of Have Another is this Monday the 17th from 7PM-9PM. We’ll be returning to the friendly confines of Jimmy’s #43, located downstairs at 43 East 7th Street between 2nd and 3rd Ave. There is no cover, just some of our favorite scenes from Flux Sunday shared over drinks with friends….

SpeakEasy, December 19th

What is a SpeakEasy? A SpeakEasy is the regular gathering of Friends of Flux over drinks and food to brainstorm ideas, give feedback, and share updates about our mutual work. SpeakEasy is somewhere between a Town Hall, a party, and a gathering of the knights of the round table. Our first SpeakEasy on December 19th,…

Arizona, Imaginative Empathy, and the Never Ending Story

“What I cannot create, I do not understand.”-Richard Feynman, physicist “Bring new light to what life might be.”-Hugh Macleod, cartoonist I had been thinking about writing a post like this for some time, and write it now under the shadow of the recent political murders in Arizona and Pakistan. A question J Holtham asks over…

Scavenger Time

(Photo by Tiffany Clementi. Pictured:Zack Robidas as Coke and Julian Stetkevych as Bud) Scavengers! You’ve seen them roaming the post-apocalyptic, moonless world of Dog Act, stealing whatever isn’t nailed down to reuse and recycle, according to the whims of their insatiable appetites and the orders of their enigmatic overlord, The Wendy (praise her usefulness! praise…

Flux Sunday, January 2nd

(What is Flux Sunday?) Playwrights: Katherine Burger (Ever, Ever), Brian Pracht (Wendell Wants), August Schulenburg (The Temptation Show) Actors: Jane Taylor, Jason Howard, Ken Glickfeld, Gretchen Poulos, Alisha Spielmann, Kimberly Klein, Nora Hummel, Isaiah Tanenabum, Ryan Andes, Travis York, Matthew Archambault, Heather Nicolson Our first Flux Sunday of 2011! And, pending how rehearsals/production of Dog…

Dog Act Rehearsal Photos, Jo-Jo Sack Edition

I offer this picture, courtesy of AD Tiffany Clementi’s phone, as a moment of zen on this snowy Friday. This is Becky Byers as Jo-Jo, the semi-feral teenage vaudevillian of Dog Act, escaping from her sack of captivity in a candid rehearsal shot. Yup, this first week of rehearsal has been fun! (Cute, sure, but…

Talkback: A Play About Talkbacks

(Our amazing Dog Act playwright Liz Duffy Adams wrote this short play about the talkback process. Having lived it, I love it, and hope you will, too). TALKBACKBy Liz Duffy AdamsIn Which the Great Majority of the Talkback Dialogue Has Been Collected Verbatim Over the Years, about Various Plays by Various People The setting is…

On Watership Down and the Creative Home

I wonder if every child that grows up without much religion finds those earliest, indelible rhythms of what faith they have in books. For me, that was true, and no book burrowed deeper into how I live than Richard Adams’ tale of rabbits, Watership Down. And as it is New Years Eve and time for…

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