(What is Flux Sunday?) Playwrights: Johnna Adams (The Anguisher), James Comtois (McTeague), Mary Fengar Gael (The Gallerist), Kristen Palmer (Sacrifice), Adam Szymkowicz (My Base and Scurvy Heart) Directors: Heather Cohn, MFG, August Schulenburg Actors: Amy Fitts, Brian Pracht, Alisha Spielmann, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Richard Watson, Nancy Franklin, Paula Roman, Ryan Andes, Cotton Wright, Becky Kelly And…
I know, you’ve been breathlessly waiting for the next physics inspired theoretical post, wading impatiently through all these Flux updates and Homing Project riffs. Well, the wait is over. At the Black Playwrights Convening, in the surrounding conversation on Twitter at #newplay, and in recent posts from RVC Bard, Halcyon Theatre, and Parabasis, there has…
I was aware of the amazing work the National New Play Network is doing with their Continued Life of New Plays Fund, which was also featured as a positive example in Outrageous Fortune. But through Adam’s recent interview with Steve Yockey, I came across an equally interesting program from NNPN called the Emerging Playwrights in…
What is The Homing Project? There’s been some good feedback to The Homing Project from Scott at Theatre Ideas, Guy at Culture Future, J at 99 Seats, and the potential of a convening in midsummer as part of the New Play Institute, led by Arena and David Dower. I’ve also received some support for the…
(What is Flux Sunday?) Playwrights: Johnna Adams (The Anguishers) , Mary Fengar Gael (The Gallerist), Kitty Lindsay (The Pipe Cleaner), Isaiah Tanenbaum (The Transendental Etudes) Directors: Heather Cohn, KL, August Schulenburg, Christina Shipp Actors: Becky Kelly, Ryan Andes, Richard Watson, Ingrid Nordstrom, Brian Pracht, Gretchen Poulos, Nancy Franklin, Anthony Wills Jr, Alisha Spielmann, Ken Glickfeld,…
Flux’s next Food:Soul is Johnna Adams’ rhyming madcap comedyLickspittles, Buttonholers, and Damned Pernicious Go-Betweens (Photo by Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: August Schulenburg, Brian Pracht, Jane Lincoln Taylor, Marnie Schulenburg, DeWanda Wise; Lickspittles scene from Flux’s 3rd Have Another) Flux is THRILLED in a caps kind of way to announce the 5th installment of our potluck play…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Jane Lincoln Taylor, Katie Hartke’s arm) It was a great night! For details on who was there and what they did, here’s the post with the goods. For pics from past Have Anothers, click here, and here, and here, and here. (Photot: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Elise Link, Drew Valins) Here’s a…
Homing – the ability of certain animals to return to a given place when displaced from it. The Homing Project is the proposed name for the project described in this post, A Simple Plan. Here’s how we got here: Recently, books and reports like Outrageous Fortune, The Gates of Opportunity, The Sands Report, NEA’s Public…
On the other hand, maybe it’s simple. The IRS reports 1,982 not-for-profit theatres with a budget over $75,000.AACT lists 1,034 community theatre members.A rough count lists 265 theatre on Indie Theater.org (that’s in NYC alone).TCG has 88 theatre programs as University Affiliates, and Twitter peeps tell me the number of programs is around 200-300.*01/29/10: Adam…
I’m late in my final post, and Matt, 99Seats, Scott, Mead, and Isaac have all done great work in summing up the shock of the book’s overall impact, and made some useful suggestions on how to move forward. Most of those suggestions, however, have been in strong opposition to the professional theatre as it currently…
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