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Flux Sunday, November 7th

I think we’re going to like it here. Our fourth Flux Sunday at Judson was a moving recovery from our haunted Halloween Sunday. really strong, heartfelt work marked all 3 scenes. Playwrights: Katherine Burger (Ever Ever), Fengar Gael (Devil Dog Six), August Schulenburg (The Hand That Moves) Directors: Tiffany Clementi, Katherine, August Actors: Alisha Spielmann,…

Feud Contestants Announced

MEET THE CONTESTANTS OF FLUX FAMILY FEUD! What is Flux Family Feud? MARTIN DENTON is the founder, editor, and chief reviewer of nytheatre.com. He is the Executive Director of nytheatre.com‘s nonprofit parent organization, The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. (NYTE); the editor of NYTE’s annual Plays and Playwrights anthologies, along with the collections Playing with…

Flux Sunday, October 31st

Our 3rd Flux Sunday at Judson Memorial Church had the ill-fated luck of falling on Halloween, and a haunted Flux Sunday it was indeed, with mysteriously disappearing accents, bedeviled containers of chocolate, and a small turnout. But, like the valiant ghostbusters we are, we persevered to get some good work done. Playwrights: Katherine Burger (Ever…

UnActing

I’ve been fascinated lately by what seems a growing trend of deliberately bad acting in plays. Of course, it’s not really bad; on the contrary, it’s very highly crafted in the way only a truly gifted singer can sing spectacularly badly (proof, Miranda). But my curiosity is in what exactly is driving this particular aesthetic…

Flux Sunday, October 24th

Our second Sunday at Judson Memorial Church was also our first with audience members from their congregation – exciting! And they were certainly treated to a wide variety of um, entertainments, shall we say? Playwrights: Katherine Burger (Ever Ever), Fengar Gael (The Spell Caster), Kristen Palmer (Untitled), Brian Pracht (Wendell Wants), August Schulenburg (Presents, Denny…

A Congress for Theatre

The conversation surrounding innovative not-for-profit board structure has been gathering momentum, including our own Heather Cohn’s participation in the GIA Conference that explored fiscal sponsorship as an alternative model to the tradition 501c3. This is an especially important conversation for Ensemble companies, where a horizontal power structure builds in a board’s checks and balances into…

In Direct Address

(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Christina Shipp, Vince Nappo)Charles Isherwood recently leveled criticism against the increase in use of direct address in plays, specifically singling out playwright Kristoffer Diaz, who responds smartly here. Playwright Josh Conkel issues his own rejoinder here. However, there is another essential element of direct address that Isherwood misses, an element central…

NYTR Party and Lesser Seductions Reunion

(Photo: Crystal Skillman. Pictured: Cast and Playwright of The Lesser Seductions of History) On Friday, November 15th, the entire cast of The Lesser Seductions of History reunited to read through scene 1962 as part of the New York Theater Review Launch Party. I felt so lucky to have all eleven of the original cast clear…

2010 Flux Raffle!

We hope that you are able to attend our 2010 Fundraiser for our upcoming fourth season “Don’t Look Away” to be held on Monday, Nov. 15th (event information here). If you can’t join us, we will miss you, but you can still participate in our raffle! The money made from the raffle will go directly…

Flux Sunday, October 17th

Flux Sunday has gone through several significant evolutions, and on October 17th, we took the next good-sized step forward. It was our first Flux Sunday hosted by Judson Memorial Church, and it was an auspicious beginning to that hopefully long-lived partnership. It was our first day back on our feet staging things since leaving NYR…

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