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Monday, July 11, 2011

Headwaters at the Sautee Nacoochee Center by [email protected] (scott Walters)

Over the weekend, I had my very first Moonpie thanks to Lisa Mount, the producer and director of  Headwaters: A Goodly Portion of Our Songs & Stories, and the wonderful pe…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 11:08AM
Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Excellent Series at Createquity: Arts Policy Library by [email protected] (scott Walters)

I would like to draw my readers' attention to an excellent series at the Createquity blog. It is called "Arts Policy Library," and the Createquity bloggers are summarizing and discussing a v…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 07:48PM
Thursday, June 23, 2011

Why Bringing the Arts Back Home Is So Important by [email protected] (scott Walters)

"Theatre, like all other forms of cultural expression, used to be ordinary people singing, dancing, telling stories. This is the way a living community recorded and celebrated its victories,…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 04:31PM

More on Participation by [email protected] (scott Walters)

So apparently WolfBrown is doing a study on participatory arts -- Ian at Createquity has the details, but WolfBrown defines what they mean: "In this case, “active” means that the partici…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 09:45AM
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Participation by [email protected] (scott Walters)

In a section entitled "Participation" in And Then, You Act: Making Art in an Unpredictable World, Anne Bogart writes: In our present climate, it is more useful to look for participants rathe…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 04:40PM
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Swimming for Shore by [email protected] (scott Walters)

Over at A Poor Player, my friend Tom Loughlin describes his sense of being "theatrically depressed" (not personally depressed), and of struggling to stay afloat in the sea of Entertainment, …

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 09:04PM
Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Broadway and the British Subsidized Theatres by [email protected] (scott Walters)

As my readers know, I am not crazy about the theatre's reliance on subsidy, but London Guardian critic Michael Billington makes a persuasive argument for it when reviewing the success of War…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 08:47AM
Monday, June 13, 2011

Another Approach to Finding Your "Why" by [email protected] (scott Walters)

Back in March, I wrote a series of posts to a now-graduated theatre major about finding your "why." Maryo Gard Ewell, noted community-arts leader, describes another approach that you could d…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 07:19PM
Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Tony Kushner: Can't Support Himself as a Playwright by [email protected] (scott Walters)

"I make my living now as a screenwriter! Which I’m surprised and horrified to find myself saying, but I don’t think I can support myself as a playwright at this point. I don’t think an…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 06:33PM
Friday, May 20, 2011

Thoughts on the NEA Grants: An Analogy by [email protected] (scott Walters)

I regularly teach a course on the history of the Harlem Renaissance, and early in that course we read an essay by Beverly Tatum that comes from her book Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting To…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 09:43AM
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Some Observations on NEA Grants by [email protected] (scott Walters)

Last night and this morning, I posted some number crunching of the latest theatre grants given by the NEA. I'd like to do more, and maybe I will, but the next step -- examining the populatio…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 01:06PM

Crunching Numbers: NEA Grants (Part 2) by [email protected] (scott Walters)

Number of grants per state NY 39 CA 32 IL 10 MN 7 PA 6 TX 5 GA 4 MA 4 DC 3 KY 3 MO 3 TN 3 VT 3 AZ 2 CT 2 FL 2 ME 2 MD 2 MI 2 MT 2 NM 2 NC 2 OH 2 OR 2 VA 2 WA 2 AR 1 CO 1 ID 1 IN 1 KS 1 LA 1…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 10:01AM
Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Crunching Numbers: NEA Awards by [email protected] (scott Walters)

So the NEA just announced a new round of grants, and Stage Directions published it. Let's take a look at the "Access to Excellence" category for Theatre (not including Musical Theatre, which…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 09:01PM
Sunday, May 15, 2011

On #1 and #3 by [email protected] (scott Walters)

On Twitter, a few people have responded positively to my previous post, "Educating Artists." Mostly, they agree with #2 and #4: "Entrepreneurial Skills" and "Community Organizational Skills.…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 08:45PM
Friday, May 13, 2011

A Thought About TEDxMichigan Avenue by [email protected] (scott Walters)

I was only able to stay for the morning sessions of TEDxMichiganAvenue, because my son was graduating from Illinois State that evening. But I've followed the Twitter hashtag, and read some o…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 04:23PM

Educating Artists by [email protected] (scott Walters)

As my blogging nickname, The Prof, suggests, I am a theatre professor. I teach theatre history, play analysis, directing and dramatic literature at a small liberal arts university (Universit…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 03:40PM
Monday, March 28, 2011

If I Ran the NEA: One Suggestion That Would Change the Face of the Arts by [email protected] (scott Walters)

After having been interviewed last week on Studio 360 (in an unfortunately-named episode called "Too Much Theatre?") discussing the #supplydemand "controversy," I wanted to follow up with a …

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 02:23PM
Friday, March 25, 2011

Welcome, Studio360 Listeners by [email protected] (scott Walters)

My recent interview with Kurt Andersen on Public Radio International's Studio 360 is now available. I hope you enjoy the show, and feel free to leave comments as always.

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 02:29PM
Tuesday, March 22, 2011

This Is Good Advice, Too by [email protected] (scott Walters)

Jess Hutchison gives a kick in the pants: "Do the Work."

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 01:24PM
Monday, March 14, 2011

Addendum: Your Theatre's "Why" by [email protected] (scott Walters)

Last week, I wrote a series of posts addressed to a theatre major getting ready to graduate about "finding your why." Let me take a moment to state the obvious: finding your "why" is critica…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 02:17PM
Thursday, March 10, 2011

Advice to a Theatre Major: Finding Your How (Part 1): You Are Not a Migrant Worker by [email protected] (scott Walters)

I've spent a few days talking about the importance of "finding your why," finding the reason you get out of bed in the morning, the thing that drives you to not only do theatre, but do anyth…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 11:01AM

Tom Vilsack, Ezra Klein, and Assured Mutual Idiocy by [email protected] (scott Walters)

I'm not certain I can write coherently about this, because I am so angry. It might be better to just read this blog post on "Blog for Rural America" entitled "What are the rural subsidied th…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 09:49AM

Advice to a Theatre Major About to Graduate from College by [email protected] (scott Walters)

Dear Abby/Scott/Scoot, I feel like I am forever asking your advice- and here I am again. I hope you'll forgive me, but it's difficult to talk big life decisions (about things like theatre c…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 09:01AM
Wednesday, March 9, 2011

More on Finding Your Why by [email protected] (scott Walters)

In the comments of yesterday's post, "Advice to a Theatre Major About to Graduate from College (Part 2)," a commenter, The Waltzing Belgian, who has experience with my approach to play analy…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 10:55AM

More Advice to Nervous by [email protected] (scott Walters)

I received the following email from a former student of mine in response to the "Advice to a Theatere Major" series of the past couple days. She adds a little different twist. I will also be…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 09:53AM
Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Advice to a Theatre Major About to Graduate from College (Part 2) by [email protected] (scott Walters)

Yesterday, I wrote a post to a "nervous" theatre major preparing to graduate who was wondering about the next step in her life. Judging from the amount of traffic it generated, I d…

SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 11:52AM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
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