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…
(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…
(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…
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 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…
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…
(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,…
(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…
(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,…
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…
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