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ForePlay: Secrets and Lies (and then a party!)

So our ForePlay series Divine Reckonings kicks off this Monday the 22nd at Judson Memorial Church, 243 Thomspon Street, at 7:30PM! To sweeten the honey pot further, we’ve added a kick-off party afterwards with an hour open bar at Down The Hatch, starting at 9PM. Monday is clearly the new Friday. Here’s the skinny: Divine…

Cast and Design Team Announced for Jacob’s House

Jacob’s House What would you do for more life? Playwright: August SchulenburgDirector: Kelly O’Donnell Preview: Thursday, April 29thOpening: Friday, April 30thRuns April 29th-May 22nd, Thurs-Sat @8PM and Sunday @7PMAt The Access Theater Gallery380 Broadway (At White Street) Map? Click here.Tickets available here Cast and CharactersDinah: Jane Lincoln Taylor*Joe: Zack Calhoon*Tamar: Jessica Angleskhan*Jacob: Matthew ArchambaultLeah: Tiffany…

3 Smart Audience Engagement Tactics

I’m increasingly interested in tactics – tangible actions – that we can use to make our audiences feel welcomed into the process of building our creative home. 3 smart tactics that I stumbled across recently: – Theatre As Community Newspaper: I know, having a theatre publish a newspaper sounds like Stegosaurus grabbing onto Triceratops as…

Flux Sunday, February 14th

(What is Flux Sunday?) Still trying to play catch up on the Flux Sunday reports, and a rainy day does indeed help. So, cast your minds back to the far gone day of February 14th, where a last minute change of venue has us scrambling to a location where we can only read the plays,…

Audience Demographics, Lesser Seductions

After The Lesser Seductions of History closed, our Marketing Director Kelly O’Donnell created a power point presentation that broke down the demographics of the audience that attended. While her presentation featured some salty jokes regarding the process, not to mention some choice photos, perhaps discretion is the better part of valor here, and I will…

Flux’s Next ForePlay – DIVINE RECKONINGS

DIVINE RECKONINGS – ForePlay just got biblical. Our exploratory play reading series, where playwrights riff on the themes of our mainstage production, is back. This ForePlay, called Divine Reckonings, will feature 16 playwrights re-imagining 8 stories from the Old Testament, inspired by the upcoming production of Jacob’s House, our modern retelling of Jacob wrestling the…

Flux Interviews

Michael Davis is interviewed by his home town theatre company’s blog – read it here to learn more about your favorite King of Shadows/piano savant/Segismundo serenader. Just look at him below, poised to answer any questions… (Photo: Tyler G. Hicks-Wright. Pictured: Michael Davis, Candice Holdorf) While you’re at it, have you checked out my interview…

Flux Sunday, February 7th

(What is Flux Sunday?) Yup, I’m WAAAY behind in this and many other aspects of the blog. This is my good excuse. But I’m going to do my best to catch up, so hop in the Delorian with me and journey way back when to the early days of February, when the Olympics were just…

Big News About Our 2009-10 Season

In a way, we asked for it… After all, when you name your season the Season of Give and Take, something will be taken as sure as given. And due to rights issues, Flux will not be able to produce Archibald MacLeish’s play, J.B. We will truly miss the chance the stage that beautiful play,…

Where We’ve Been

Yup, the Flux blog has been incognito of late. But that’s because we’ve been crazy busy in the realosphere, with some good, bad, and big news to announce today or tomorrow. Hopefully, after reading that news, you’ll forgive our absent ways. We’ll be posting pics from our last Food:Soul, updates on Flux Sundays, more ideas…

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