When your play closesthe job transposesto seeing other folks showses(everyone knows this)So, here we goeses!* -Ken Glickfeld’s in Israel Horovitz’s Scrooge and Marley at Barefoot Theatre Company. –Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant returns to the Bushwick Starr December 18th, 19th and 20th (and have you read her must-read post about restaurants and theatre?) -Sound Designer Asa…
(What is Flux Sunday?) Playwrights: Throwing Gumballs (Rob Ackerman), Projects (Erin Browne), Yellow Wallpaper (Katherine Burger), McTeague (James Comtois), Untitled Russian Project (David Ian Lee), Dinkles and Holly (Zack Robidas), Caged (Adam Szymkowicz) Directors: Angela Astle, Heather Cohn, Nancy Franklin, August Schulenburg Actors: Matthew Archambault, Jaime Robert Carrillo, Carissa Cordes, David Crommett, Becky Kelly, Ingrid…
I’ve added some new blogs to the blog roll: New Play Blog: This is the blog of the NEA’s New Play Development Program at Arena Stage, currently hosting the fascinating fruits of their Defining Diversity forum (more on that anon). The Lark: For some reason, this wasn’t on our blog roll – problem fixed. Their…
Quite a title for a theatre blog, yes, but a new book by Randolph Roth of the same title posits a fascinating link between homicide rates and faith in government. Sifting through four centuries of history, his research points to one consistent connection: when individuals trust their government, homicide rates fall. When they don’t, they…
(Photo by Tyler G Hicks-Wright. Pictured: Jake Alexander, Tiffany Clementi, Michael Davis) Director Heather Cohn and I were interviewed about The Lesser Seductions of History by Rachel Cole for InDigest Magazine, an online literary magazine dedicated to dialogue about and between the arts. Rachel’s column Play by Play previously featured a lovingly detailed review of…
Check out a fascinating conversation regarding arts education funding over at A New Landscape in American Theatre, the Facebook page administered by Antonio Sonera. To quote Tony: Currently in Portland, Oregon there is a group called CAN (Creative Advocacy Network) that is trying to establish a platform to bring to the voters which would enhance…
(Photo: Tyler G. Hicks-Wright. Pictured: Matthew Archambault) I was thrilled to see that one of our co-founders and former members Joe Mathers had started a blog (covering stage combat – I hope he’ll be covering Fight Fest at the Brick) and even more thrilled he saw The Lesser Seductions of History and blogged about it….
Three interesting things regarding the brain and how we tell stories: The Transcendental Social: A Denmark study that found that praying to God activated regions of the brain associated with talking to a friend, reinforcing a theory linking religious faith to theory of mind, the idea that our capacity to imagine the intentions and thoughts…
So, while there are a few more posts regarding The Lesser Seductions of History still to come (most importantly a detailed response to the audience responses), I want to talk quickly about what Flux has coming up, and what role this blog will play, and how you can engage with us here: NEXT FOR FLUX…
I want to write a little about how the scale of the way we remember and forget is changing in our culture, and what that might mean for theatre. A few things recently caught my eye: the discovery and subsequently rapid spread of Vivian Maier’s photography. Unknown as a photographer in her lifetime, John Maloof…
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