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Flux Sunday, September 13th

(What is Flux Sunday?) We’re back! After a break in August for our 4th Annual Retreat at Little Pond and our Food:Soul of Volleygirls, we’re back for the month of September. We started with a more intimate crowd than usual, but that was lucky for me as I was the only playwright (beedle dee, deedle…

Ensemble Structure II: Towers, Clouds, and Exponential Growth

(This is a continuation of thoughts on Ensemble structure – read the first post here.) I just read Rob Cross’ post on ONA, aka Organizational Network Analysis, via Beth’s Blog on nonprofits and Social Media (just the way to start a Sunday). ONA looks like a wonderful tool for analyzing how a company/Ensemble actually works….

Get Some Discounted Space And Hook Up Flux

Flux is one of the Resident Companies at the newly formed NYR Studios, an artist-led rehearsal and performance rental studio. Through September 30th, NYR Studios is offering discounts on their spaces, and if you mention that you heard about NYR through Flux, you can help us earn a wee referral fee. You get space at…

3 Plays On Iraq – Oohrah!, Aftermath, and Ajax In Iraq

During the retreat, Flux was blown away reading Ellen McLaughlin’s Ajax In Iraq, a play written for the ART grad program. On Sunday the 6th, Heather and I saw Aftermath at New York Theatre Workshop; last night we saw Bekah Brunstetter’s Oohrah! at the Atlantic. 3 plays over 2 weeks that dealt, in one way…

NYIT Idea Bank

The NYIT Awards have posted an idea bank, specifically for items they can bring to government partners, but I think an Indie theatre bank – a resource for brainstorms and best practices – could be a great help to the community, so I took their initial request for comments and ran with it a little….

Interview At Visible Soul

Zack Calhoon interviewed me for the interview series, “People You Should Know…” on his blog, Visible Soul. I was honored to be asked to participate in this series, as Zack has already interviewed impressive folks like Leonard Jacobs, Jennifer Conley Darling, Matthew Freeman, and Jessi Hill. Speaking of Leonard Jacobs, he has a GREAT interview…

Exploding Moments: Evanston, A Rare Comedy

In order to move forward this conversation regarding quality, we are putting some of those principles into practice with a new blog series, Exploding Moments. We’ll be exploring how quality productions work through the prism of individual moments. By asking the artists involved how they created a particularly successful moment, and examining how it works…

Survey for LINC

(H/T Bill George) Leveraging Investments In Creativity, a ten-year national initiative to improve the conditions for artists working in all disciplines, is holding a survey to see how the recession if affecting artists. I filled out the survey in a neat fifteen minutes, and they’re asking good questions, so if you have a moment, please…

The Metabolism Of Theatre

One of the exciting things about engaging with the blogosphere is finding moments of common ground amidst separate discussions. Like the physicists of string theory before Witten’s M-theory, we are all unknowingly using different languages to describe the same underlying thing. And like the different arms of M-theory, each language can unravel problems impossible in…

The Lesser Seductions of History, Dates and Location

The Lesser Seductions of History November 6 – 22 Wednesdays – Sundays @ 7:30 Sundays @ 2pm Opening: Saturday, Nov. 7 At the Cherry Pit, 155 Bank Street* DIRECTOR: Heather CohnPLAYWRIGHT: August SchulenburgSTAGE MANAGER: Jodi WitherellSOUND DESIGN: Asa WemberSET DESIGN: Will LowryLIGHT DESIGN: Lauren ParrishCOSTUME DESIGN: Becky KellyDRAMATURG: Angela Astle CastONE – Candice HoldorfMARIE –…

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