Where your mouth is.
You can vote for my theatre company if you want to, I won’t stop you. And I do appreciate the gesture. Note, I’m not saying what the vote is for, or who will benefit from it. Because in the end, it...
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Dream a dream
After the first sustained pause in the conversation between (sober) theatremakers the party question of choice is “what is your dream project?” It’s a fun topic and generally it means you don’t have to...
View ArticleLeveraging psychology
If you are part of an active participant organization with a shot at the top 200 in Chase Community Giving, you might want to read this tomorrow, after your adrenaline levels have returned to normal....
View ArticleEvent Horizons
At the recent Chicago Theater (anti-)Conference hosted by Theater Wit, I received a lot of questions about events. I’ve got some pretty strong feelings about them. I’ve planned about a zillion and I...
View ArticleDevised Theatre: Terrible Practicalities
Previously in this column: Bright Alchemy Theatre, a very young company devoted to the creation of devised work, decides to begin work on a narrative and thematic sequel to A Cre@tion Story for Naomi,...
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Follow Friday: 03 June 2011
The Follow Friday posts are back! We look at communities remembering their own stories and pulling together to give to the arts, philanthropy from donors and from theatre companies themselves,...
View ArticleDo whatever a spider can.
In case you’ve been in a coma for the last year, there’s this Broadway musical, it’s called Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, and it’s made some headlines. There were accidents and script problems and...
View ArticleDevised Theatre: Transitioning to Production
Previously in this column: The members of Bright Alchemy Theatre, a very young devised theatre company based in Washington, DC, have spent the last nine months working on its new project which began...
View ArticleTruths and Dares
A Series of Questions and Thoughts about Some Real Issues We and Theater Journalists Could Ponder as to Why Theaters Aren’t More Daring Most of the regional theaters I’ve worked at or freelanced for...
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#stealthisidea: Vending Machine Dances, Musicals in the Wild and Blues at the...
One of my favorite things about summer in an arts organization is that you get a couple of precious weeks where, in between the planning and the subscription mailings, there’s a little fallow time...
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