Two nights ago I saw Anna Deveare Smith’s play about health care, Let Me Down Easy. I was deeply moved by the play, and haven’t stopped thinking about it, as it touched on many of the ideas we’ve been discussing on this blog. First, on Presence: It absolutely mattered that this was a play and…
Here are my 12 wishes for theatre in the new year: 1. An Online Audience/Artist Community: This is #1 because it makes almost every aspect of #2-12 more possible.Whether it is the Audience Engagement Platform or something out of Project Audience, the goal is to connect audience, artist and institution in a robust arts-centric online…
In this blog post we’re going to fly from quantum mechanics to Darwin to theatre as quickly as possible, using only links and the single engine plane of my mind, so hold on. Ready? One of essential differences between classical and quantum physics is probability. At the incredibly small Planck level, particles are neither here…
Exhibit A: Your partner walks into your bedroom to find you watching porn on your computer. Your partner’s reaction may be pissed off or turned on, or merely indifferent. Exhibit B: Your partner walks into your bedroom to find you watching several people having sex on your bed. In this scenario, indifference seems less likely…
(What is Flux Sunday?) Playwrights: Throwing Gumballs (Rob Ackerman), Red Horses (Johnna Adams), Going Out Dancing (Katherine Burger), McTeague (James Comtois), Moving Statues (Corey Ann Haydu), Untitled Russian Project (David Ian Lee), Dark Matter (August Schulenburg), The Sleeping World (Crystal Skillman) Directors: Angela Astle, Rob Ackerman, Katherine Burger, Crystal Skillman Actors: Ryn Andes, Matthew Archambault,…
Rereading Harold Bloom’s book on Shakespeare, The Invention of the Human, I was struck anew by this passage on page 56 regarding the uniqueness of his characters, excerpted here: “Instead of fitting the role to the play, the post-Marlovian Shakespeare creates personalities who never could be accommodated by their roles: excess marks them not as…
When your play closesthe job transposesto seeing other folks showses(everyone knows this)So, here we goeses!* -Ken Glickfeld’s in Israel Horovitz’s Scrooge and Marley at Barefoot Theatre Company. –Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant returns to the Bushwick Starr December 18th, 19th and 20th (and have you read her must-read post about restaurants and theatre?) -Sound Designer Asa…
(What is Flux Sunday?) Playwrights: Throwing Gumballs (Rob Ackerman), Projects (Erin Browne), Yellow Wallpaper (Katherine Burger), McTeague (James Comtois), Untitled Russian Project (David Ian Lee), Dinkles and Holly (Zack Robidas), Caged (Adam Szymkowicz) Directors: Angela Astle, Heather Cohn, Nancy Franklin, August Schulenburg Actors: Matthew Archambault, Jaime Robert Carrillo, Carissa Cordes, David Crommett, Becky Kelly, Ingrid…
I’ve added some new blogs to the blog roll: New Play Blog: This is the blog of the NEA’s New Play Development Program at Arena Stage, currently hosting the fascinating fruits of their Defining Diversity forum (more on that anon). The Lark: For some reason, this wasn’t on our blog roll – problem fixed. Their…
Quite a title for a theatre blog, yes, but a new book by Randolph Roth of the same title posits a fascinating link between homicide rates and faith in government. Sifting through four centuries of history, his research points to one consistent connection: when individuals trust their government, homicide rates fall. When they don’t, they…
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