We’re all thrilled to report that our own Heather Cohn was nominated for a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Director for The Lesser Seductions of History! For those of you who took the time to vote for us, your votes contributed to this nomination, so from all of us, THANK YOU. This is…
(What is Flux Sunday?) Well, this was an unusual Flux Sunday. Due to a perfect storm of summer vacations and busy playwrights, yours truly was the only contributor of pages to this particular Flux Sunday. Luckily, I had a lot of them! Playwrights: August Schulenburg (Dream Walker, Deinde) Actors: Johnna Adams, Greg Waller, Scott Barnhardt,…
After some good comments from Ian and Steve regarding our last post, Playing Ball, I came across another great TED video regarding the structure and impact of game play. Speaker Jane McGonigal designs video games that empower players to change the world. When you level up, the world levels up with you. The idea of…
(What is Flux Sunday?) We’re back! After Jacob’s House and a weekend of rest, we returned to our weekly workshop series, Flux Sundays. After our wonderful residency at the now defunct NYR Studios, where we happily spread out our many scenes, we return to a more nomadic life, and to lesser incarnation of table reads….
OK, so this is one’s REALLY long, but I’ve been away awhile. The recent conversation regarding whether or not video games are art got me thinking, not so much about the question itself – they obviously are – but about why that should seem so obvious to me, and so strange to others. I think…
(Ed. note: Ridiculously late, but this interview completes the set! Thanks to all the Jacob’s House and Divine Reckonings artists that participated)What is Jacob’s House?What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings? Kelly O’DonnellDirector, Jacob’s House Previous Flux Experience: co-founder of Flux. Played Tegan in The Lesser Seductions of History. Directed Rue, Riding the Bull, Life is a…
(Ed. note: My sincere apologies, this lovely interview feel through the cracks! I truly hope later is better than never…)What is Jacob’s House?What is ForePlay: Divine Reckonings? Michael John GarcésPlaywright, Divine Reckonings Previous Flux Experience: First timer! Do you have a favorite Bible character?The “voice” of the psalms. Are you blessed?Yes. If you were wrestling…
Readers of this blog know in what deep esteem I held Patrick Lee, the reviewer behind the vital Just Shows To Go You. Hearing of his untimely death yesterday, I could not quite wrap my mind around what we’ve lost. After loving his reviews for years, I asked him to write the introduction to the…
A fascinating debate has erupted over the impact of the internet on our brains. In one corner, the utopians, led by Clay Shirky and Jonah Lehrer; in the other, the contrarians, led by Nicholas Carr. In the contrarian corner, Carr’s book The Shallows posits that the hyperlinked, multi-tasked, interruption-driven nature of the internet has robbed…
In my college, most acting students participated in a Shakespeare Tour, and on this tour, our professor would warm up our high school audiences with a brief shout out to the Elizabethan era. “New words were invented every day!”, he’d proclaim, which would lead his sarcasm-stained students in the wings to invent a ridiculous new…
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