(What is Flux Sunday?) Playwrights: Rob Ackerman (Throwing Gumballs), Johnna Adams (Tumblewings), Katherine Burger (Legends of Batvia), Isaiah Tanenbaum (The Transcendental Etudes), Anthony Wills Jr (Eddie Falls) Directors: Michael Davis, Kelly O’Donnell, August Schulenburg, Christina Shipp, Isaiah Tanenbaum, Anthony Wills Jr Actors: Gretchen Poulos, IT, JA, RA, Nora Hummel, David Crommett, AW, Brian Pracht, Ken…
Whose Audience Is It, Anyway? This question is the title of the 5th chapter of Outrageous Fortune, TDF’s new book profiling the the life and times on the new American play. As part of Isaac’s blogging group, I’m writing about Chapters 1, 5, and 6. My thoughts on Chapter 1 are here. I share my…
If the audience is as important as the actors in making a play work, why don’t we spend as much time casting an audience as we do casting a play? A backdrop for that question: This weekend, I was lucky enough to observe the American Voices New Play Insitute at Arena Stage’s convening on black…
Have Another is back! (Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Nancy Franklin, Ryan Andes, Matthew Archambault) It’s back! Our next instalment of Have Another is this Tuesday the 19th at 7PM (holy short notice, Batman!). We’ll be returning to the friendly confines of Jimmy’s #43, located downstairs at 43 East 7th Street between 2nd and 3rd Ave….
So I’m going to be blogging about TDF’s new publication, Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play, as part of Isaac Butler at Parabasis‘ posse of bloggers. Today, all of us will be addressing Chapter 1: Dialogue in the Dark, Playwrights & Theatres. In the days to follow we’ll be focusing…
I wanted to follow up on an idea introduced in my post on Anna Deveare Smith’s Let Me Down Easy because I need to lay some groundwork for my contributions later in the week to Isaac’s project on TDF’s Outrageous Fortune. Most approaches to encouraging greater diversity in theatre stem from moral or practical imperatives:-A…
It’s the listing time of year, and happily, Flux is featured in a number of Best of 2009 lists: Just Shows To Go You: Patrick Lee featured The Lesser Seductions of History among his Sixteen Most Outstanding Shows of 2009. I also loved reading his 10 Memorable Moments At The Theatre This Decade. That Sounds…
Two nights ago I saw Anna Deveare Smith’s play about health care, Let Me Down Easy. I was deeply moved by the play, and haven’t stopped thinking about it, as it touched on many of the ideas we’ve been discussing on this blog. First, on Presence: It absolutely mattered that this was a play and…
Here are my 12 wishes for theatre in the new year: 1. An Online Audience/Artist Community: This is #1 because it makes almost every aspect of #2-12 more possible.Whether it is the Audience Engagement Platform or something out of Project Audience, the goal is to connect audience, artist and institution in a robust arts-centric online…
In this blog post we’re going to fly from quantum mechanics to Darwin to theatre as quickly as possible, using only links and the single engine plane of my mind, so hold on. Ready? One of essential differences between classical and quantum physics is probability. At the incredibly small Planck level, particles are neither here…
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