The League of Independent Theater posted a top 10 from their meeting on "Making a Difference" during Indie Theater Week:LIT Making a Difference 201 – TOP 10Making a difference for… survi…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 01:59PMThis isn't a review, because it was a work in progress, but I also saw Baby No More Times at the Jam On Toast festival from New Georges, playing at Dixon Place,It's a feminist pop music caba…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:39PMIt's a typical story. Girl meets boy. Girl and boy get together. Boy distributes girl's sext all over school. Mirror-man and glowing girl fight an unearthly battle across the surface of the …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:31PMCopyright Sasha Arutyunova 2014Some plays are big, on the grand scale of an epic. Other plays are tiny, occupying the infinite and narrow space between two people. Party Play, an original pr…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:58PMI woke up this morning and decided that I really wanted to see the Leyton Orient - Rotherham United game today. If you haven't heard of these clubs, I can't blame you -- they're third-tier t…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 05:50PMIf you're reading this, you're interested in the intersection of arts and policy. (If you're not reading this... woah.)As the new webmaster of the League of Independent Theater (amongst many…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:55PMI may look like a cultural pundit to you, but in my day job I work as a consultant in the Information Technology space. (I know, thrilling). As a result, I've spent the last five years worki…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 08:56PMI know you need cheap space. There's two opportunities for it, courtesy of the League of Independent Theater.From the website -- first, the Charter Barter Program:The League’s Real Estate …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 08:51PMI promise.It's been a big bizarre change of pace for me in life.My day job continues to consume.I'm now the Director of Operations for the League of Independent Theater.I'm working on my own…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 08:24PMI wanted to keep you more in touch with what the League of Independent Theater has been doing for this election (NYC city-wide). I got too tied up to blog about it. (I will likely blog more …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:36PMQuestion: Is Theater Inherently Elitist? Yes. Theater is labor, resource, and real estate intensive. Theater must therefore be expensive to recoup its costs. Or theater must rely on the …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 12:07PMAnother part in our continuing series on Shit You Should Know. It's an election year. It's an important election. (Mayor, a majority of city council seats, and many other positions are ope…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:34AMTypically, I don't enjoy writing a negative review -- I try to find the positive in the production, or I don't write a review at all. I figure that usually a bad play -- if it made it far en…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 12:00PMThe following is a press release from the League of Independent Theater, who are endorsing some key political players who are running for office -- all of whom have adopted our Performi…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:42AMI haven't been updating much on the blog because my life is full of tangible things, but I haven't been dipping into theory or postulating as much. In the meantime, while I recharge my theo…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 06:12PMThe following are raw notes from Monday Night's mayoral forum at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope. It's a lot of info, but I bolded the things that stuck out to me. John Liu …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:09PMSorry I haven't been doing well updating you all about the campaign to support the arts in NYC. We've been knocking it out of the park. I'm incredibly excited about the potential in this ele…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:55PMI had my own round-up of posts in the past about how we make the case, but for this year's national arts advocacy day, here's 10 reasons to support the arts. I'm going to bring this blog up…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:38PMThe Onion tells you to "Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life": I have always been a big proponent of following your heart…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:04PMIn the midst of an article about debate about a plan to bring housing to Pier 40: “It is my hope that we as a community can come together and work toward an achievable goal through an ope…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 05:59PMI've mentioned before the League of Independent Theater Meet the Candidates 2013 event which brought together 20-odd candidates to debate areas of arts policy as pertains to a specific …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:46PMI'm pretty gosh-darn exhausted, but initial impressions upon getting home from the Meet the Candidates Forum was that a packed-full room of enthusiastic, interested artists was presente…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:30PMAn artist really eloquently puts why it's important for artists to get paid for their work: It's becoming a bigger and bigger cultural conversation, whether it's the Upright Cit…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:08PMThat's right. If you say you do socially conscious work, or you think that the City could be doing more to be supporting the arts, then you have no excuse not to come to the League of Indepe…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:41AM... it goes negative! Performers in Hair paid a $495 enrollment fee to perform.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 01:47PMIf data-driven web-series are the future of television, then the horse-and-buggy is probably sports broadcasting. The content is every bit as desirable now as it was in years past, but the m…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 03:46PMOn Thursday, I attended Scott Stringer's final State of the Borough Address as Manhattan Borough President -- although really, it also served as a campaign event for his run for comptroller.…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 03:28PMYou have to read this Salon article about how House of Cards is a new frontier of creating content based on what producers will think we like -- only using hard data rather than guesswork: …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 02:17PMThe Brooklyn Nets are not the first professional basketball team in Brooklyn. The Smart Set Athletic Club were. Because the Negro Basketball League counts.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:37AMIf you have ever said that you create "socially engaged work," read this whole post. If you have ever expressed frustration that public officials don't care about the arts, read this whole …
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