Dog Act opens tonight to a sold our house! After a great rehearsal period and (ongoing) intense tech week, we’re thrilled to share this play with you. First things first: if you haven’t already purchased your tickets, you can do so here, and use the code “FUGHAT” for $14 tickets for shows on the 6th,…
How much is a Facebook Event Attending worth in real butts-in-seats terms? With advance ticket sales rarer than ever, perhaps you find yourself (as I often do) refreshing your Event, hoping to see those precious number rise. But is a Yes on Facebook equal to a Yes in life? Though not big/wide enough for a…
Due to the nigh-on wild acclaim for the ground-breaking post, Two Interviews, I link now to two more interviews, because, well, there are two new Flux-related interviews in the world. First up, Dog Act actress Becky Byers, she of People of the Year and Exploding Moments fame, continues to soar like a veritable air minion…
Check out this great interview at Works by Women of our own Heather Cohn! Heather has some great thoughts about Flux’s programming, gender equity, and our upcoming production of Erin Browne’s Menders. While you’re at it, our amazing Dog Act postcard illustrator Kristy Caldwell has a fascinating post about her process (and ours) here. I…
(Photo by Tiffany Clementi. Pictured:Zack Robidas as Coke and Julian Stetkevych as Bud) Scavengers! You’ve seen them roaming the post-apocalyptic, moonless world of Dog Act, stealing whatever isn’t nailed down to reuse and recycle, according to the whims of their insatiable appetites and the orders of their enigmatic overlord, The Wendy (praise her usefulness! praise…
I offer this picture, courtesy of AD Tiffany Clementi’s phone, as a moment of zen on this snowy Friday. This is Becky Byers as Jo-Jo, the semi-feral teenage vaudevillian of Dog Act, escaping from her sack of captivity in a candid rehearsal shot. Yup, this first week of rehearsal has been fun! (Cute, sure, but…
(Our amazing Dog Act playwright Liz Duffy Adams wrote this short play about the talkback process. Having lived it, I love it, and hope you will, too). TALKBACKBy Liz Duffy AdamsIn Which the Great Majority of the Talkback Dialogue Has Been Collected Verbatim Over the Years, about Various Plays by Various People The setting is…
(All photos by Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Lori E. Parquet, Chris Wight.) We had a great time taking early press photos for Dog Act (and did we mention tickets are now available with a limited time discount?) After our first music rehearsal with Gerard Keenan, he gratefully lent us his 100 year old banjo for the…
Illustration by Kristy Caldwell “Peppered with astonishing and exhilarating eruptions of storytelling and wondrous plays within the play.” —The San Francisco Chronicle (Liz Duffy Adams Dog Act) “Her language has a natural period flavor and a formidable wit; her characters possess the spark of fully animated spirits; and she weaves into her story both biographical…
(What is The Wider Frame?) It may seem that a post-apocalyptic vaudeville like Dog Act may not have a whole lot of real world resonance. But for a play of such wild imagining and comic invention, the painful and beautiful stuff of the real world runs through it. There are a number of ways we’ll…
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