(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…
(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…
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