Sunday, December 2, 2012
By which I mean the Adam West feature film. After having read some pretty gritty late-Batman material (The Killing Joke, Knightfall, and Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns), it's wo…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:16AMSaturday, December 1, 2012
RVCBard has a great post on writing theater for fandom. Meanwhile, Seth Godin is writing about creating products for customers who care. These are related ideas, in my mind. If you're g…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 07:11PMPROPRIOCEPTION
The Shop Theater
Nov 29 - Dec 2
As a final project of a student of the Experimental Theater Wing, you'd be comforted to know that Proprioception's is open about the ex…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 07:04PMThursday, November 29, 2012
Fractured Atlas is one option for health insurance, but another option is the Freelancer's Union. I actually have a day job that provides me with health insurance, but for those who don't, t…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 07:02PMIf you read my blog, chances are you read Ian Moss + co.'s fantastic art policy blog Createquity. (If not -- what's wrong with your life! Go fix it!). So I probably don't have to tell you ag…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 06:37PMSunday, November 25, 2012
Barry Hessenius has some good questions for selecting the next NEA chair. He also has some names for possibilities for the next chair. I want to loudly second one of his endorsements:
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SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:16PMDon Hall:
As the need for communal experience increases in our increasingly ala carte world, it is worth noting that the play is no longer the thing. The thing, as it were, is the experien…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 04:14PMFriday, November 23, 2012
The centrality of the holiday to the childhood Weltanschauung is neatly encapsulated in the synthetic holiday jingle concocted for the musical by Mr. Pasek and Mr. Paul, which is remorseless…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:07PMSunday, November 18, 2012
Not to horn in on Parabasis territory, but having never been a comic/graphic novel person in my youth, and now having a sister who is amongst other things a comic writer and illustrator, I d…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 04:48PMSaturday, November 17, 2012
James Fallows uncovers the true roots of Gangam Style: Agnes De Mille and Aaron Copland.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 03:22PMI went and saw a show adapted from Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights recently. And a few years ago I saw another staged piece adapted from Gertrude Stein (I can't remember th…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 02:32PMOBSKENE
HERE Arts Center
Talking Band
November 1-17th
The intellectual crux of Obskene is in the title: Ob-skene, the Greek term for off-stage, is where the worst parts of Greek Drama hap…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 01:58PMSaturday, November 10, 2012
Every year, I have to file a report for Fractured Atlas on how my company spends its money. The difficulty is that, up until now, the labels for our expenses don't necessarily align wit…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:54AMTuesday, November 6, 2012
Not going to tell you to vote, or who to vote for: if you're anywhere on the internet, you'll already have heard that roughly once per second every second you've been online.
I will, howeve…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 12:48PMSunday, November 4, 2012
The New York Innovative Theater Foundation has put together a list of cancellations and postponements, as well as statuses on a few venues that need help.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:49PMIt's been a week now since the MTA shut down the subway system in preparation for Hurricane Sandy, and the events of the last week have led me to wonder the wisdom and ethics of the phrase, …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:24PMMy company, Organs of State, has announced the make-up schedule for Américana Passover. Only two nights still have availability: Tuesday the 6th and Thursday the 8th.
Just in time for…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 08:43PMSaturday, November 3, 2012
The suit was filed on Thursday in Federal District Court in Oxford, Miss., against Sony Pictures Classics, which released “Midnight in Paris,” and reported by Variety (registration requi…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 06:54PMThursday, November 1, 2012
Prerequisite reading:
Jason Robert Brown, on how Sondheim told him never to tell an artist what you really think of their work. At least, not immediately.
99Seats, very validly hoping…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 04:40PMFriday, October 12, 2012
NYTheatre.com put out some questionnaires to artists working on my show, Américana Passover.
If you're interested, here are my thoughts.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:59AMMonday, October 8, 2012
I'll make this quick and to the point.
For two years I've been working on a piece with my performance company, Organs of State, called Américana Passover.
We started with the election…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 12:17AMFriday, October 5, 2012
I've decided that any time I write a protracted post about politics or aesthetics, I will give you all a Nicolas Cage chaser (or other ridiculous actors, if I run low on the Cage well... if …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 12:48AMThursday, October 4, 2012
First, you'll want to read Conor Friedersdorf's Why I Refuse to Vote for Barack Obama, and/or George Hunka's Throwing away my vote, or L'Hôte's you're either with us or you're against us, a…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:11PMSaturday, September 22, 2012
This ad season has been brutal. Ever since the primaries wrapped up, I feel like I've been watching a whole shit-ton of mass-produced, grave-voices-over-shocking-press-clips, formulaic ads. …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 02:59PMTuesday, September 18, 2012
As a producer, you want to stay culturally relevant with the work you're producing. But maybe there's such a thing as being too culturally relevant? At least when it comes to marketing.
Abo…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:16PMIt's definitely a bad sign when you have to answer questions like "What is this food?" and "Why is this food square?" and "Is your meat real or fake?"
Those are all screengrabs …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 08:25PMThursday, September 13, 2012
There's a lot going on, and I'll fill you in soon, but mostly, I blame the internet. How am I expected to blog when people have put all the cut-scenes from the game Civilization II online?
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SOURCE: CultureFuture at 09:58PMTuesday, September 4, 2012
Our friends over at Fractured Atlas have a post up about finding non-traditional performance space. I am not linking to it just because I'm quoted! I am linking to it because it's something …
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 10:22PMTuesday, July 24, 2012
Geithner needs to resign. Unless he can trot out some incredible self-defense, he needs to resign.
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 11:13PMThursday, July 5, 2012
In the same vein as Charles Isherwood wanting to get rid of direct address because it often doesn't work, now we can add to that genre John M Morrison wanting to banish set designers to an i…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 02:43PMWednesday, July 4, 2012
A while back, my company created a month-long transmedia performance called In Memoriam. (Entire archive available here). After a conversation with a colleague about our experience, I decide…
SOURCE: CultureFuture at 05:14PM 
