Monday, February 11, 2013
Last week, TCG held our winter board meeting here in New York City. We were joined by the National Council for the American Theatre, our advisory council of theatre trustees. While the board…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 09:02AMMonday, February 4, 2013
From Beckett’s beats to Pinter’s pauses, from places to curtains, time in theatre is measured as much by the pulse of the heart as the tick of the second. Great theatre can make hours di…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:32AMMonday, January 28, 2013
“The way I view life is very connected to the way I grew up in Cuba. It’s a certain quality—like a tender pity for things.” - María Irene Fornés in an interview with Lucia Mauro, P…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:36PMTuesday, January 15, 2013
“This grant gave me more than memories; it gave me a crucial experience that is formative to all writers: the ability to perceive that we become writers in exile, where what we write is th…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:29PMMonday, January 7, 2013
Happy 2013! The 113th Congress is sworn in, not-for-profits are evaluating our swerve from the fiscal cliff and artists are going beyond the stage to advocate as citizens. Here at TCG, we’…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:07PMMonday, December 17, 2012
I write to you now from Poland, where I’ve been a guest of the Divine Comedy International Theatre Festival in Krakow. I’ve attended 12 shows and engaged in conversation with Pol…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:21AMMonday, December 10, 2012
But there’s always this kind of nostalgia for a place, a place where you can reckon with yourself. Now I’ve found that what’s most valuable about that place is not the plac…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:17AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
I wanted to call your attention to some important resources now posted on our website. If you missed the Fall Forum on Governance—or attended and would like to refresh your memory—we now…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:29AMMonday, November 19, 2012
This season of giving is also a season of change. The election gave us our first Hindu Representative in Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii); our first Asian-American Senator, Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii); …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:28PMFriday, November 2, 2012
Our hearts go out to all those struggling in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. What an apt phrase that is: Our hearts go out. Yesterday, we reached out to our Member Theatres and Affiliates in th…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:43AMMonday, October 29, 2012
“I can tell you, after having served for 30 years and having seen the worst conditions around the world, that this is a wonderful country, and it is because of our culture, our opennes…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:21AMMonday, October 22, 2012
Forging connections, creating an equitable future, building livable communities and providing effective leadership; these were the key themes of the 2012 Grantmakers in the Arts (GIA) Confer…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:45AMMonday, October 15, 2012
Perhaps we’ll look back on the first half of the twenty-first century and see a revolution of process, with deeper collaborations among theatre artists leading to an explosion of innovatio…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:39AMTuesday, October 9, 2012
You say you got a real solution / Well, you know / We’d all love to see the plan. -“Revolution,” The Beatles It’s been over a year since Occupy Wall Street began, and nearly two …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 08:45AMTuesday, September 25, 2012
In our current political maelstrom, everyone seems to have their own set of facts, twisted and spun to support the confirmation biases of their opinions. This can sometimes be true of our ow…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:07AMMonday, September 17, 2012
We must love one another or die. W.H. Auden, “September 1, 1939″ (1940) We must love one another and die. W.H. Auden, “September 1, 1939″ (1955) What a difference a w…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:39AMMonday, September 10, 2012
I hope everyone had a happy Labor Day weekend, and took a moment amongst the barbecues and beach days to reflect on the ongoing importance of the labor movement. Watching Lily Ledbetter’s …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:47AMMonday, August 27, 2012
One of the most urgent conversations to emerge from the 2012 National Conference in Boston concerned the perennial theme of diversity. However, we noticed that the frame of that conversation…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:10PMMonday, August 20, 2012
The weekend before last, I had the pleasure of participating in two memorable events in Kentucky. In Lexington, I was a keynote speaker at the conference of the American Alliance for Theatre…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:33AMMonday, August 13, 2012
“Very ordinary town, if you ask me.” Mr. Webb, Our Town by Thornton Wilder On July 12, the NEA announced the 2012 Our Town grant recipients, and whether or not Wilder’s eponymous paean…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:58PMMonday, August 6, 2012
Summertime: the childlike promise of that word never quite leaves us, no matter how freighted we become with adult responsibilities. The promise of time unbound on beaches, the promises swor…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 04:00PMMonday, July 30, 2012
“…this crystallized what I had experienced in Europe: the feeling that there was a competition among different directors and companies to out-innovate one another, and this was their mai…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:48AMMonday, July 23, 2012
When it rains, it pours, with last week’s East Coast storm flooding Soho Rep’s acclaimed production of Annie Baker’s version of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya. A different kind of trouble was…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:22AMMonday, July 16, 2012
Did the 2012 National Conference in Boston actually end? You might be forgiven for thinking otherwise this past week. In Los Angeles, Latino theatre leaders used Conference 2.0 to help organ…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:25PMMonday, June 11, 2012
“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.” Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles On Tuesday last, we lost …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:52PMMonday, June 4, 2012
TCG has long championed the artistic, moral and civic imperative of diversity. In 2008, we joined more than 4,000 arts practitioners at the National Performing Arts Convention in Denver wher…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:28PMTuesday, May 29, 2012
If you plan to attend the Conference and haven’t yet booked your hotel, it is URGENT that you read this. The Park Plaza Hotel has extended their discount offer one more time for TCG attend…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:30AMMonday, May 21, 2012
I spent a few days recently in Florida, beginning in Sarasota where I was treated to an embarrassment of theatrical riches. In less than 24 hours at Florida Studio Theatre, I saw Reel Music,…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:43PMMonday, May 14, 2012
How much activity can two days hold? On Monday of last week, the extraordinary artists and theatre people who make up our board met in New York City for our spring meeting. After a fertile d…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:25AMMonday, May 7, 2012
On Monday of last week, TCG was presented with a Distinguished Service to the Theatre Award at the 2012 Theatre Museum Awards for Excellence. Playwright Tina Howe presented the award, and sp…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:25PMMonday, April 30, 2012
TCG held its first ever GALA last Monday to celebrate our 50th anniversary. It was an opportunity to bring together friends, both old and new, and to honor the following organization and two…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:23AM 
