Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Shakespeare: 3 plays, 1 year. Today: 1 play, 3 years...or more.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 09:10PMTuesday, September 8, 2015
Contemporary theater should "cut through the numbness, to penetrate the self-deception.”
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 07:14PMWednesday, August 19, 2015
Those who actively love theater may be the biggest barriers to necessary change.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 08:15PMMonday, July 13, 2015
How long can the theater keep the 21st century at bay? And do we want to?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:06PMWednesday, March 25, 2015
Harold Clurman said, "You can't have good plays unless you have a lot of bad ones."
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 06:00PMTuesday, February 24, 2015
Scott Timberg says that the creative class is being killed. What are you going to do about it?
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:42PMTuesday, January 14, 2014
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
We light our candles on the candles of our predecessors.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 12:32PMTuesday, October 8, 2013
Todd London's new book seeks to reignite the American theatre.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 11:45AMTuesday, September 24, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Buyer beware! A university’s reputation often is little more than “folklore.”
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 04:38PMTuesday, July 16, 2013
How a good pair of boots connects Shakespeare to contemporary playwrights.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 03:32PMTuesday, July 2, 2013
We need a radical new approach to the education of young theatre artists.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 01:07PMTuesday, June 18, 2013
Thoughts on Tracy Letts' Tony Award acceptance speech.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:05AMTuesday, June 4, 2013
In the 20th century, theatre innovation focused on "isms;" the 21st will focus on business models. Seriously.
SOURCE: Clyde Fitch Report at 10:36AMWednesday, January 9, 2013
Theatre Ideas has gone inactive. I am now blogging at Creative Insubordination (http://www.creativeinsubordination.org), a new blog focused on strategies for becoming an independent artist.
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SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 07:25AMTuesday, January 1, 2013
In an essay entitled "The Deep Voice" in his book Rebuilding the Front Porch of America (a book that I recommend everyone in the arts read), Patrick Overton talks about the "ascendant" and "…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 12:09PMFriday, November 30, 2012
I was recently struck by the juxtaposition of three news events: the Black Friday labor protests against Wal-Mart, Mac McCelland's horrific article about online shipping warehouses published…
SOURCE: Huffington Post at 04:25PMThursday, October 11, 2012
Today, I will be discussing arts pioneer Robert E. Gard in my course on community arts development, which gives me an excuse to report this essay I wrote about two years ago on Robert Gard's…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 02:57PMMonday, October 1, 2012
The first article of a weeklong series at HowlRound.com about rural arts has appeared: Dudley Cocke's Rural Theatre in a Democracy.
As the week continues, you will find the following:…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 12:25PMThursday, August 23, 2012
So I just got the following press release. After all this time, I don't really need to spell this out, do I? I'll highlight the cities and link to their counties. Bottom line: rich get riche…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 12:16PMThursday, August 9, 2012
Leo Hwang-Carlos, who will be at Double Edge Theatre in Ashfield MA this weekend to participate in a rural arts work group discussion, does a great job explaining why the economy is more tha…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 10:15AMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Traditional writers in the mainstream media (and, as I found out a while ago, many leaders of prominent arts organizations) see bloggers as, to quote Spiro Agnew (I can't believe I am quotin…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 11:59AMFriday, July 20, 2012
In a few weeks, I will be traveling to Ashfield, MA for a rural arts working group meeting at Double Edge Theatre. I am looking forward not only to the conversations, but to hearing how the …
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 08:46AMThursday, July 19, 2012
I have finally had an opportunity to take a look at the NEA's announcement of the 2012 Our Town grants, and a quick overview makes me pleased. First of all, the press release very explicitly…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 01:32PMFriday, July 13, 2012
Michael Maso Replies | TCG Circle: "I don’t know why DR thought I was talking about her."
'via Blog this'
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 07:20AMWednesday, July 11, 2012
From the opening pages of Robert Theobald's book Reworking Success: New Communities at the Millenium.
A stranger comes to a starving town,
Promising to make stone soup.…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 09:00PMWednesday, May 9, 2012
Dear Georgia Arts Network attendees,
First of all, thank you so much for your enthusiastic welcome at the conference. I truly enjoyed spending a few days with you, and found your energy and…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 06:32PMWednesday, April 18, 2012
[cross-posted at Huffington Post]
A little over a week ago, I began this series about the flap over This American Life's hour-long "Retraction" of its January broadcast of excerpts of Mike …
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 12:49PMTuesday, April 3, 2012
[Also posted on Huffington Post]
Prologue
On March 16, Ira Glass devoted an entire episode of This American Life to doing that which newspapers do with a few sentences in a small box buri…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 11:48AM 
