“Not to show off, but to show; not to exhibit but to transmit the tenderness of the human spirit through the disciplined action of a human body.”-Merce Cunningham (h/t Marilyn on Superfluities) “Don’t bear me ill will, speech, that I borrow weighty words,Then labor heavily so that they may seem light.”-Wislawa Szymborska, Under One Small…
Did you love the song Elvis wrote for GL’s Mother in Riding the Bull?Or the rocking Good Day To Die in Angel Eaters? Then you need to check out our collaborator and friend Gary Keenan’s band, American String Conspiracy! Gary was just nominated by the NYITA for Outstanding Original Music for Angel Eaters, and he’s…
A few days ago, David Cote at Time Out New York posted Nine Wishes For NYC Theater. This post generated some thoughtful responses from 99 Seats, Rob at Wicked Stage and Matthew Freeman, with most of the focus on the fifth wish: “5. Bloggers: Engage/enrageThis item will generate noise (and that’s the point): I wish…
Flux is thrilled to be presenting a staged reading of Rob Ackerman’s Volleygirls as the next installment of our potluck play reading series, Food:Soul. We’ve helped develop this play over the past months, and were so thrilled to see it produced at A.C.T. We very much hope you’ll join us Sunday, August 9th at 4:00…
We hope that you are able to attend our 2009 Fundraiser for our upcoming production of August Schulenburg’s The Lesser Seductions of History on Sunday, August 9th (more information here) If you can’t join us, that will make us sad, but you can still participate in our raffle! The money made from the raffle will…
It was great night! We were nominated for 7 awards – 6 for Angel Eaters, and 1 for 8 Little Antichrists: Outstanding Full Length Script: Johnna AdamsOutstanding Actor In A Lead Role: August SchulenburgOutstanding Original Music: Gerard KeenanOutstanding Costume Design: Emily Morgan DeAngelisOutstanding Lighting Design: Jennifer RathboneOutstanding Sound Design: Asa WemberOutstanding Set Design: Caleb Levengood…
Heather here. As those of you who’ve been following Flux for a while now know, we have produced several exploratory reading series prior to various full productions. Each of these series are thematically connected to the full production that follows, and one might go as far to that these reading series are a Flux trademark….
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…
DRINK ME (Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Nancy Franklin)Have Another was back! And we had a great time – thanks to the audience, and in spite of the basil, it was our best yet. To see what we did and who did it, go here. (Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured Jake Alexander) Jake Alexander, the Have Another…
Dylan Stephen Levers is starting a cool new blog called Questions For Artistic Directors, featuring his interviews with ADs of Rising Phoenix Rep (friend Daniel Talbott!), Fluid Motion Theatre and Film, and as of a few days ago, Flux. This interview was conducted a few months ago, and it’s interesting to see how quickly my…
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