Monday, 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 11:23AMMonday, April 23, 2012
“To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright lov…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:56PMMonday, April 16, 2012
“I had occasion to do some public-speaking and we picked topics out of a hat…It said ‘Nothing of any significance exists west of the Hudson River,’ and I breathed a big sigh of r…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:40PMMonday, April 9, 2012
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 7 I’ve just returned…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:19AMFriday, March 30, 2012
“But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.” -Tennessee Williams, The Glass…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:16AMMonday, March 26, 2012
The old saying has it that laws are like sausages—the less you know about how they are made, the more you like them. Theatre, however, may be more like a garden, and increasingly, audience…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:35AMMonday, March 19, 2012
What do robot rebellions, violence in a boys choir, marital misery and space invaders have in common? They were all a part of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company’s daring 1983-84 season. My the…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:23AMMonday, March 12, 2012
“Good artists copy; great artists steal.” The origins of this popular phrase have ironically been misattributed to everyone from Steve Jobs to Pablo Picasso to Igor Stravinsky (it was pr…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:53PMMonday, March 5, 2012
“People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.” – Thornton Wilder, Our Town What may have been true when Wilder was writing his classic look a…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:06AMWe are pleased to announce the re-launch of the TCG Brain Bank: Where Knowledge Earns Interest! Since we began the TCG Brain Bank three years ago, we’ve made numerous matches and received …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:56AMMonday, February 27, 2012
What kind of theatre will the next generation inherit? This was a recurring question as I continued my travels from the previous week, visiting theatres in Minneapolis, the San Francisco Bay…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:16PMTuesday, February 21, 2012
I recently traveled to Anchorage to visit TCG’s three member theatres in Alaska: Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Cyrano’s Theatre Company in Anchorage and “the world’s northe…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:09AMMonday, February 13, 2012
“So we went around asking people, ‘If I started a company next year which would do live theatre and it has to be profitable, does it make sense?’ And unfortunately, or fortunately, the…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:40AMMonday, February 6, 2012
Last week, TCG held its winter board meeting, which brought together our nationally-based board of directors, as well as our National Council for the American Theatre. The latter is an advis…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:30AMMonday, January 30, 2012
“We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short.…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 03:34PMMonday, January 23, 2012
Believe it or not, the 22nd TCG National Conference in Boston is only 149 days away! It feels as if the 50th Anniversary kick-off Conference in Los Angeles was only last week instead of last…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:02AMTuesday, January 17, 2012
The holiday season is the calm before the storm for the performing arts in New York. In early January, the Association of Performing Arts Presenters (APAP) holds its annual conference, with …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:05AMMonday, January 9, 2012
“The Leadership Boot Camp has fundamentally changed how I interact with colleagues, how I perceive challenges and how I form strategies to solve problems.” ─Past participant in the TCG…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:49AMTuesday, December 27, 2011
Last week, we lost Czech playwright, poet and former President Václav Havel. I had the chance to meet Havel in 1994, when he received the Liberty Medal in Philadelphia. I was then managing …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:27PMMonday, December 19, 2011
“It is a revolutionary world we live in, and this generation at home and around the world has had thrust upon it a greater burden of responsibility than any generation that has ever lived.…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:33AMMonday, December 5, 2011
Global Citizenship is one of the Core Values TCG identified as part of our 50th Anniversary, and in recent days, we’ve been reminded of its importance in both troubling and inspiring ways.…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 02:26PMThursday, November 24, 2011
“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” -Friedrich Nietzsche This Thursday, we’ll be sitting down to turkeys and tofurkeys, and sharing the things we’re than…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:02PMMonday, November 21, 2011
Happy almost Thanksgiving! Our Fall Forum on Governance, which took place over last weekend, was a tremendous success. We had record attendance, and the Forum community of trustees, theatre …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:33AMThursday, November 17, 2011
(Photo: Becky Friedenberg. Pictured: Kevin E. Moore, Teresa Eyring, David Henry Hwang) (Editor’s note: Teresa Eyring’s closing remarks were given on Sunday, November 13th at our …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 05:46PMMonday, November 14, 2011
When you think theatre, do you think rural community? Joan Schirle did, and her vision helped lead to the founding of Dell’Arte International, just one of the many TCG member theatres …
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 01:31PMMonday, November 7, 2011
“It should not be remarkable that we stopped talking about arts in education and started talking about arts for education.” I love this quote from Susan Booth, artistic director of the A…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 09:46AMMonday, October 31, 2011
When was the last time a playwright’s words gave you goose bumps? For me, it was last week at the launch of our TCG Playwrights in Conversation: Discussions and Readings series, in partner…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:30AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
Last week I was in Washington, DC for the fall LORT meeting, where it’s a pleasure to see and catch up with so many colleagues. Laurie Baskin delivered an advocacy update, including an…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 09:27AMMonday, October 17, 2011
Last week, I was at the annual Grantmakers in the Arts Conference, where the theme of the meeting was Embracing the Velocity of Change. There were important discussions about the rapid demog…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 10:09AMMonday, October 10, 2011
As I mentioned previously, I was in China for the ITI World Congress in September. TCG is the U.S. Center for the International Theatre Institute, and several of our member theatres and affi…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 11:57AMTuesday, October 4, 2011
Last week’s I AM THEATRE is of Anthony Runfola, production manager at Childsplay in Arizona. He talks about the power of theatre to make people become more honest with themselves and bring…
SOURCE: Theatre Communications Group at 12:35PM 
