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…
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….
We have returned from The National Summit For Ensemble Theatres, sponsored by NET for five days in San Francisco, and there is MUCH to unpack. Each day had enough material for several blog posts, and while I don’t expect to have time to get it all down, I will try and focus on the bigger…
Given the layoffs in arts journalism – a 50% decline in four years – is there any light up ahead in a life spent writing about theatre? Well, it’s hard to argue with those terrible numbers. But a few things recently have made me wonder if we’re simply in the hard part of an important…
Ok, it’s not really a versus, in fact, they could be quite complimentary. But Isaac and Adam and 99 Seats have been having a great conversation regarding the creation of endowed artists chairs at institutional theatres. Essentially, these position would be treated the same as capital campaigns, only instead of building theatre spaces, they would…
I’ve been enjoying the blog Mission Paradox by Adam Thurman for some time now. Adam is the Director of Marketing at Court Theatre, and in general his posts give a positive, warm-spirited take on the institutional theatre experience. However, in this recent post, “Your Future (Perhaps)“, he talks about the life span of artist-run theatre…
In contrast to the last post, here’s some very good news* from the LA Times blog Culture Monster about the East West Players. They are celebrating their 44th birthday, making them the country’s longest operating professional theatre of color. What I liked especially was when asked why they had survived and thrived for so long,…
Though I never got out to Brooklyn to see a show at Tuckaberry Productions, I know a number of their regular artists and they seemed like genuinely good people, bringing quality childrens theatre to an under-served community. With all the big theatres making big splashes with their big financial woes, the email announcement of Tuckaberry’s…
So……this blog is intended primarily as a source for a closer look at the goings-on of Flux Theatre Ensemble and our surrounding community. This means that when we’re in production, that’s what you’re going to read about. And as often as possible, we’re going to write about our ongoing developmental work. Occasionally, we’ll post responses…
What does that fancy pants word mean? And why does it appear as a title in a post on a theatre blog? Read on, dear reader, read on. Reading the Sunday Time Magazine, I found a fascinating article by Robin Marantz Henig on the scientific reasons for why children play. Being an adult who spend…
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