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Friday, March 6, 2015

Performers And The Art Of "Physical Leakage" by Douglas McLennan

“We all carry a physical signature in our bodies. When we're under any kind of stress, our bodies behave in their usual habits " it's called "physical leakage". Your real personality s…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:29AM[SHARE]

Inside The Theatre " Immersive Experience Taking Hold Of Audiences by Douglas McLennan

“Immersive theater takes place without a stage of any kind, in deserted industrial spaces, nightclubs, hospitals, hotels and more. It invites audience members to explore the action at …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:20AM[SHARE]
Friday, February 27, 2015

How Women Playwrights Are Marginalized by Douglas McLennan

“Of course the heightened visibility of plays written by women is welcome. But all over the country, even at venues which are attempting to make female playwrights' voices heard, there…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:40AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Theatre Cancels All-Asian "Showboat" After Concluding It Couldn't Be Done by Douglas McLennan

“We spoke with, and listened purposefully to members of racially diverse communities and particularly with our most direct constituents, Asian-Americans, regarding how tackling this wo…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:33AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Here's Why American Musical Theatre Has Slipped From The Mainstream by Douglas McLennan

“Now that Broadway-minded songwriters no longer have a universal musical language on which to draw, it isn't possible to write a show with genuine broad-gauge audience appeal. It says …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:05AM[SHARE]
Thursday, February 12, 2015

Life Is Getting Harder For Actors With Learning Disabilities by Douglas McLennan

"Work seems to be being supported and assisted at a community level. So there's a perception that people with learning disabilities can enjoy participatory activity but " on the other side o…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 08:47AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Massive Change Coming To North America's Second Largest Repertory Theatre by Douglas McLennan

By the end of 2015 The Shaw Festival “will announce Jackie Maxwell's successor as artistic director, Elaine Calder's replacement as executive director and, if the new leaders are up to…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:42AM[SHARE]
Friday, February 6, 2015

A Bill To Give Tax Breaks For Producing Broadway Shows by Douglas McLennan

“The Support Theaters in America Growth and Expansion Act would mean that shows and live theatrical productions would enjoy an incentive given to film and TV productions for certain co…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:45AM[SHARE]
Thursday, February 5, 2015

Too Many Artists Or Not Enough Value? by Douglas McLennan

Scott Timberg’s book Culture Crash makes a case that the transformation of our culture right now is killing artists’ ability to make a living making art. He cites a number of rea…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:21PM[SHARE]

Study: Going To The Theatre Is Scotland's Favorite Live Arts Activity by Douglas McLennan

“Theatregoing is the second most popular cultural activity in Scotland after the cinema, according to a survey that shows that 32% of Scots went to the theatre in 2013.”

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:47AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, February 4, 2015

The (Improbably) Hottest Show In New York by Douglas McLennan

“The mobile-ticket site, Today Tix, has between 1,500 and 2,000 entries daily for a lottery to two tickets offered for $10 each. Sporadic tickets are available on StubHub for exorbitan…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 10:39AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Report: More New Work Than Revivals In UK Theatre In 2014 by Douglas McLennan

“It found that new work " including original plays, musicals, pantomime and opera " made up 59% of all productions, 66% of all performances, 63% of all seats sold and 66% of box office…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:22PM[SHARE]

This Is Progress? Toronto Has Too Many International Theatre Festivals by Douglas McLennan

Audience outreach will ultimately determine if Progress succeeds, because as it stands, Toronto likely has too few regular showgoers to sustain this boom in international theatre.

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:05PM[SHARE]
Friday, January 16, 2015

Culture-crashing " Is The Internet Killing Our Creative Class? by Douglas McLennan

Scott Timberg, an arts journalist and author of the CultureCrash blog on ArtsJournal, has a new book out called… Culture Crash. It’s Scott’s attempt to look at how the digi…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 05:55PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Live Versus The Machine (Let's Not Take The Live Experience For Granted) by Douglas McLennan

The promise of virtual reality has intrigued science fiction writers for years. But the technology for VR has been rather disappointing. Until now, writes Wired. A headset called the Oculus …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:13AM[SHARE]
Monday, January 27, 2014

British Orchestras " Bigger Audiences For Less Money by Douglas McLennan

British orchestras report an increase in attendees – a 16 percent increase no less – over an earlier three-year period: A survey by the Association of British Orchestras (ABO) ha…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:14PM[SHARE]

Welcoming A New AJ Blogger: Art of the audience by Douglas McLennan

I’m very pleased to welcome a new blogger to ArtsJournal today. Lynne Conner will be writing the blog We the Audience, a blog about the relationships between artists and audiences. Lyn…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:01AM[SHARE]
Sunday, January 26, 2014

Morbid Curiosity " Culture Is Dead (Move Along…) by Douglas McLennan

What a week. First there was the Slate piece that declared classical music dead. Then spiked decided that pop music was over. Why is it that people keep wanting to kill off great swaths o…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:20PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, December 10, 2013

A New ArtsJournal is coming. by Douglas McLennan

.It’s been a while since we redesigned ArtsJournal. AJ is now 14 years old, and this will be the fifth redesign. And a new content platform as well, as the site moves to WordPress. Thi…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:27PM[SHARE]
Saturday, August 10, 2013

Are Arts Leaders "Cultural" Leaders? by Douglas McLennan

# The two terms sometimes get mixed up. They’re not interchangeable. For the most part, the big cultural debates of our time take place without participation of our artists and arts le…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:54PM[SHARE]
Sunday, March 24, 2013

What if an Arts Organization was a MOOC? by Douglas McLennan

That’s “Massive Open Online Course” and they’re everywhere right now. Some of the most prestigious universities are creating courses online and attracting tens of tho…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:30PM[SHARE]
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

How Do You Promote Arts Blogs? (A Competition And A Rationale) by Douglas McLennan

How does somebody who wants to write about the arts get an audience? In the old days you found a small local publication to write for while you learned your craft, and graduated to bigger pu…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:59PM[SHARE]
Monday, January 9, 2012

The Party of Can't And Won't (So Let's Change The Conversation) by Douglas McLennan

Mitt Romney said last week he’ll kick funding for the arts and public broadcasting to the curb if he gets to be president. # “We’re not going to kill Big Bird, but Big Bird…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 11:49PM[SHARE]
Sunday, December 18, 2011

The Excellence Problem by Douglas McLennan

If I built the best-ever VCR, would you rush out to buy it? Of course not. Even though my VCR might be the most excellent VCR, no one cares about VCRs anymore. # Being excellent at something…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 06:59PM[SHARE]
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Are you a Channel or are you a Library? by Douglas McLennan

TV used to be an appointment medium. It’s Thursday night at 8 and you’re in front of the set watching or else you missed your favorite show. Then VCR’s, DVD’s and DVR…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 02:48AM[SHARE]
Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Do you want to be my cable company or my TV provider? by Douglas McLennan

I pay my cable provider to supply me with TV. # Since I don’t want to watch on my cable provider’s schedule I pay for Tivo. Since my cable provider doesn’t have all the mov…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 03:49PM[SHARE]
Monday, December 5, 2011

Sharing, The New Default by Douglas McLennan

Build something in the physical world and the minute it’s used it starts to decay – scuffs, dents, chips. Drive a car off the new car lot and it immediately loses ten percent of …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 07:05PM[SHARE]

The New Literate? by Douglas McLennan

Literacy has traditionally been described as the ability to read for knowledge, write coherently and think critically about printed material. - Wikipedia # Literacy at its most basic is the …

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:44AM[SHARE]
Wednesday, August 24, 2011

The Classical Music Critic Goes Extinct by Douglas McLennan

Seems important to note the passing of music criticism as a legitimate job in Canada. John Terauds, for six years staff classical music critic of the Toronto Star, was reassigned this week t…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:30AM[SHARE]
Friday, October 1, 2010

A New Look by Douglas McLennan

If you’re a follower of ArtsJournal blogs, you’ll notice that this blog doesn’t look the same as any of the others. That’s because I’m in the midst of redesigni…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 09:31AM[SHARE]
Friday, July 30, 2010

Sorry, but I'll take experience over artistry by Douglas McLennan

Professional sports has more money than God, and they spend more to attract and entertain fans than anyone else. So how does the NFL sell itself? Not by touting the quality of its games. The…

SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 01:49PM[SHARE]

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