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Flux Sunday, July 12th

What is Flux Sunday? So much to catch up on! Have Another last night (it went well), a shout out for Infectious Opportunity (go see the extension), an update on the quality discussion and more NET unpacking. But for now, a quick update on our last Flux Sunday! BACK ON OUR FEET, BUT WOOZYThanks to…

An Evolving Aesthetic

UNPACKING NET, PART 2: DEFINING OUR AESTHETIC One of the challenges of NET for Heather and I was talking about the work Flux does, aka, “The Elevator Speech”. This is the phrase for that woefully inadequate yet necessary 30 second pitch about your company’s work, a pitch useful primarily in elevators and, well, national conferences….

NeverCracked opens July 13!

Thanks Gus for plugging my show, NeverCracked, in the previous post Out and About II. I just wanted to give all our followers the specifics so you can check out (what I think) is a really funny, provocative and topical piece of art. And Flux’s own frequent collaborator, Asa Wember (Other Bodies, Angel Eaters Trilogy,…

More on NET from Son of Semele

You can read a nice day by day write up of the National Summit for Ensemble theatres here. I should have another post myself soon Unpacking NET, but this weekend was crazy with Have Another rehearsals and Flux Sunday.More on all of that soon!

Congrats to Erin and Corey

Congratulations to Erin Browne for making the shortlist of BBC’s World Drama Competition with her play Trying… …and to Corey Ann Haydu for the upcoming production of her play Runaway Love at The White Box Theatre Festival. Go see it! Trying was developed at Flux Sunday, and Runaway Love was part of Poetic Larceny. We…

Acceptance Video for the ITBA’s Citation for Excellence

As you may remember, Flux was thrilled to recently win the Independent Theatre Bloggers Association’s Citation for Excellence in Off-Off-Broadway Theater. What you may not have known is the ITBA asked all the winners to create an acceptance video. Well, we may have jumped on that opportunity a wee bit faster than some of the…

Out and About, II

FLUXERS, OUT AND ABOUT Lots to see and do while you wait for our next Have Another, or recover from it! This week, check out my short play America, or God Shed His Grace On Thee at the U.S-ification of America Conference at Center Stage – I’m on the Thursday/Saturday ‘Stripes’ program. This event also…

Teatro Jornaleros Sin Fronteras

A cool article in the Christian Science Monitor about Teatro Jornaleros Sin Fronteras, a day laborer theatre company whose founder, Juan Jose Mangandi, we met at the NET summit. This company grew out of a play created by Cornerstone Theatre Company. Read all about it, and congrats to Teatro Jornaleros for the good press! (h/t…

The return of Have Another: Wednesday, July 8th

Yes…After so long…It’s finally happening…The return of bar staged reading series at Jimmy’s #43, Have Another!You might remember Have Another from its previous incarnations. But it’s been over a year since we’ve held this event. Why are we bringing it back, besides the obvious fact that theatre over beer is fun? Because we want to…

Congrats to nytheatre.com!

They won! Thanks to everyone who voted, and congrats to Martin, Rochelle and everyone at NYTE.

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