I’ve been fascinated lately by what seems a growing trend of deliberately bad acting in plays. Of course, it’s not really bad; on the contrary, it’s very highly crafted in the way only a truly gifted singer can sing spectacularly badly (proof, Miranda). But my curiosity is in what exactly is driving this particular aesthetic…
Our second Sunday at Judson Memorial Church was also our first with audience members from their congregation – exciting! And they were certainly treated to a wide variety of um, entertainments, shall we say? Playwrights: Katherine Burger (Ever Ever), Fengar Gael (The Spell Caster), Kristen Palmer (Untitled), Brian Pracht (Wendell Wants), August Schulenburg (Presents, Denny…
The conversation surrounding innovative not-for-profit board structure has been gathering momentum, including our own Heather Cohn’s participation in the GIA Conference that explored fiscal sponsorship as an alternative model to the tradition 501c3. This is an especially important conversation for Ensemble companies, where a horizontal power structure builds in a board’s checks and balances into…
(Photo: Isaiah Tanenbaum. Pictured: Christina Shipp, Vince Nappo)Charles Isherwood recently leveled criticism against the increase in use of direct address in plays, specifically singling out playwright Kristoffer Diaz, who responds smartly here. Playwright Josh Conkel issues his own rejoinder here. However, there is another essential element of direct address that Isherwood misses, an element central…
(Photo: Crystal Skillman. Pictured: Cast and Playwright of The Lesser Seductions of History) On Friday, November 15th, the entire cast of The Lesser Seductions of History reunited to read through scene 1962 as part of the New York Theater Review Launch Party. I felt so lucky to have all eleven of the original cast clear…
Flux Sunday has gone through several significant evolutions, and on October 17th, we took the next good-sized step forward. It was our first Flux Sunday hosted by Judson Memorial Church, and it was an auspicious beginning to that hopefully long-lived partnership. It was our first day back on our feet staging things since leaving NYR…
After a long weekend of late nights, we’re nearly done wading through the 1,000+ (and still incoming) headshots and resumes submitted for our upcoming auditions for our 4th Season:Don’t Look Away. Heather, Kelly and I ended up splitting the huge e-stack (we looked over all submissions online for the first time) into thirds after communicating…
(Photo by Heather Cohn from the Flux Retreat) Mission Statement: Flux Theatre Ensemble produces transformative theatre that explores and awakens the capacity for change. As an ensemble-artist driven company, we believe that long-term collaboration and rigorous creative development can unite artists and audiences to build a creative home in New York. Believe it or not,…
(Photo by Tyler G. Hicks-Wright) Tomorrow night (10/15) is the big night! The whole entire cast (and some of the design team) of The Lesser Seductions of History are reuniting to celebrate the publication of the play in the New York Theater Review. The review will also feature Erin Browne’s Trying (developed at Flux, and…
(What is Flux Sunday?) (Flux fire hydrant to the left discovered and captured through the power of photography in Brooklyn by Adam Szymkowicz) Yup, on October 9th, we broke the fundamental laws of physics, and for the first time in three years, held a Flux Sunday on a SATURDAY. So far as I can tell,…
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