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Thoughts On Casting

After a long weekend of late nights, we’re nearly done wading through the 1,000+ (and still incoming) headshots and resumes submitted for our upcoming auditions for our 4th Season:Don’t Look Away. Heather, Kelly and I ended up splitting the huge e-stack (we looked over all submissions online for the first time) into thirds after communicating…

Mission Statement

(Photo by Heather Cohn from the Flux Retreat) Mission Statement: Flux Theatre Ensemble produces transformative theatre that explores and awakens the capacity for change. As an ensemble-artist driven company, we believe that long-term collaboration and rigorous creative development can unite artists and audiences to build a creative home in New York. Believe it or not,…

NYTR Party Tomrorow

(Photo by Tyler G. Hicks-Wright) Tomorrow night (10/15) is the big night! The whole entire cast (and some of the design team) of The Lesser Seductions of History are reuniting to celebrate the publication of the play in the New York Theater Review. The review will also feature Erin Browne’s Trying (developed at Flux, and…

Flux SATURDAY, October 9th

(What is Flux Sunday?) (Flux fire hydrant to the left discovered and captured through the power of photography in Brooklyn by Adam Szymkowicz) Yup, on October 9th, we broke the fundamental laws of physics, and for the first time in three years, held a Flux Sunday on a SATURDAY. So far as I can tell,…

Save the Date – Flux Family Feud

Flux is throwing a benefit party for our 4th Season: Don’t Look Away on Monday night, November 15th, at the crazy beautiful North Cabana at the Maritime Hotel. As if the location and company weren’t reason enough to enter 11/15 as booked in your google calendar or old-school-date-book; we’re planning an unusual theme for the…

Two Fates

A thought exercise in the form of a hypothetical question: if you had to choose between the following two fates for theatre, which would you choose? Fate #1: It’s 2030. Communities have responded to the pressures of globalization by developing vital local identities through theatre. Everyone in the community participates in the daily process of…

Casting for Flux’s 4th Season

It’s that time again! Flux is holding invited auditions for our 4th Season: Don’t Look Away. Casting info for all 3 shows is below. Flux Theatre Ensemble is casting for its production of Dog Act by Liz Duffy Adams, a post-apocalyptic comedy with music. First rehearsal, January 3. Production runs February 3-20AEA Showcase (approval pending)….

Interview: Jonny Goodman

(Pictured: Jonny Goodman of Bailout Theater and Judson Memorial Church) Flux has now collaborated with Judson Memorial Church and Bailout Theater on Hearts Like Fists; Lickspittles, Buttonholers, and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens; and ForePlay-Divine Reckonings. Several Fluxers are contributing to Judson’s next Bailout on the Living Wage. And these collaborations are, we hope, just the beginning….

Flux Sunday, October 3rd

(What is Flux Sunday?) Playwrights: Fengar Gael (The Spell Caster), Brian Pracht (The Misogynist, Unplugged In), August Schulenburg (Where It Comes and Where It Goes, Symbolic Gestures, Carrin Beginning) Actors: Candice Holdorf, Richard Watson, Kari Swenson Riely, David Crommett, Gretchen Poulos, Anthony Wills Jr, Jason Howard, Ken Glickfeld, Kelly O’Donnell, Alisha Spielmann, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Heather…

All Art Is Quite Useless

“All art is quite useless”-Oscar Wilde, preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray “a play may be the hardest cognitive workout… The best way to prepare the mind for the 21st century might be to see a 16th-century play.”-Jonah Lehrer, keynote at the 2010 TCG National Conference A Reconsideration Of The Preface To The Picture…

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