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Thursday, March 23, 2017

Stoking the Fires by Travis Bedard

I often feel alone. My life experiences and the demands of my day-to-day are so specific to my life producing and performing in small budget theatre that it often feels that outside of rehea…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 12:48AM
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Attemping to Find a Moral by Travis Bedard

There is good conversation and bad conversation. We’ve all been party to both. We’ve all had those talks that go late into the night and feel like you’re solving the world. Additive co…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 04:03PM
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Dancing With Myself by Travis Bedard

I’m almost as busy as you are. In that rush of “on to the next thing” I currently get most of my news on the fly from my Twitter and Facebook feeds. On a quick scroll throu…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 02:06AM
Monday, June 13, 2016

Peel out the Watchword by Travis Bedard

The Chicago Reader published as careful and deliberate a piece of investigative journalism covering the arts as I can ever remember reading.  In the piece Amy Leavitt and Chris Piatt laid o…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 02:28AM
Thursday, August 6, 2015

On Being Right by Travis Bedard

There is a mental habit formed early in the development of the modern American psyche: the immediate and perpetual recentering of yourself as the underdog. Our prevailing American narrative…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 12:31PM
Monday, June 22, 2015

Take Your Cuts by Travis Bedard

Playwriting is as unrewarding as anything Sisyphus could possible have an application in for. Success in playwriting is getting your text into a theatre good enough that you’d care to see …

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 02:38PM
Wednesday, April 22, 2015

The Tyranny of Me and You by Travis Bedard

I’m fascinated by observing chefs interacting with food. Unlike most folks who create they can’t avoid their work outside their “studio”, they need to eat after all. …

SOURCE: 2AMT at 05:46PM
Wednesday, March 4, 2015

The Return of Puppet Hamlet! by Travis Bedard

I would wager that, when faced with a show you don’t know, you do something similar to the math I do. You cobble together the basic geometry of the show from the elements you do know.�…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 11:30AM
Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Whispers and Thoughts by Travis Bedard

Tonight we begin a quick jaunt into the world of Stephen Spotswood‘s ‘In the Forest, She Grew Fangs‘. I’ve been trying to get a reading of this show together forever.…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 04:43PM
Thursday, January 29, 2015

100 Heartbreaks by Travis Bedard

There was no way I was going to miss 100 Heartbreaks. Even in the midst of the respiratory mayhem the season and the run of Changelings has wrought and the few nights my schedule allows me,…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:40PM
Friday, November 14, 2014

Austin Needs a Place by Travis Bedard

Making art is a grind. As with child birth we tend to forget to the gross majority of the creation process isn’t magic, it’s a slog. So when we see an artistic birthing process w…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:13PM
Monday, June 9, 2014

Be Your Best You by Travis Bedard

The American Theatre Wing’s Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre presentation ceremony occurred last night and portions of it were broadcast via television. I would like to …

SOURCE: 2AMT at 05:54PM
Tuesday, May 28, 2013

Austin is a Place by Travis Bedard

I have been toiling away in the puppet mines on a show called Cruel Circus for the last little stretch, right on the heels of assaying John of Gaunt and and the Bishop of Carlisle in Richard…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 05:26PM
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Move the Goal Line by Travis Bedard

If you have sat around a computer for any length of time over the last five years hashing out any of the ‘issues’ around (particularly) American Theatre you have found yourself invariabl…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 12:29AM
Monday, February 18, 2013

A subject speaks… by Travis Bedard

On Thursday you have the opportunity to not only see the opening night of a play, but an opening night of a company as Poor Shadows of Elysium open their doors to the tune of a coin-flip Ric…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 04:11PM
Monday, February 11, 2013

All About a Video by Travis Bedard

Word is in and we are chagrinned to announce that All About a Boy will not be reprised for Frontera’s Best of Fest. You missed it. We’re not bitter though. This show was a blast to exper…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:35PM
Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Is there a Doctor in the house? by Travis Bedard

Last week I closed a four week run of Doug Wright’s Quills with Austin’s Different Stages and I wanted to jot down a few things I learned that will be helpful to me going forward. Please…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:26AM
Monday, February 4, 2013

Ordering off the menu by Travis Bedard

I grew up in a household that was… healthy. Healthy healthy. Lima (bean) burgers, grinding grain blends for homemade bread, fresh milk from family friends who ran a small farm… my folks …

SOURCE: 2AMT at 02:40PM
Thursday, January 17, 2013

All About… someone else by Travis Bedard

Tonight is preemptively one of my favorite nights. As I’ve been annoying everyone with for weeks, I’m… busy. The busiest I have been in my entire life. It’s terrifying and glorious a…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 12:04PM
Monday, December 3, 2012

The First Rule of Fight Club by Travis Bedard

Will, Amanda and I decided after Orestes to stop pretending a company without plentiful resources or a building could (or should) operate the same way that a $5M theatre with 15 full time st…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:09PM
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Killing that old black magic by Travis Bedard

If you’re wise, even just a little wise, you don’t blurt out the literal first thing that comes to your mind. Your first response may be the truest, it may be right, but unfiltered conve…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 04:55PM
Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Fringe: Big Tent by Travis Bedard

In another life I was the assistant production manager at the Exit Theatre in San Francisco. Mostly that meant mopping and house managing and babysitting load-ins but the Exit is also the ho…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 10:44AM
Thursday, August 9, 2012

First Steps. Next Steps. by Travis Bedard

On early Monday, August 6th – right after my densest stretch of work in a long time – I got to join in the collective joy that was the landing of the Curiosity rover on Mars.I wa…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 04:45PM

Well if you’re so smart by Travis Bedard

The ease of publishing in this post-Millennial moment means that a lot of half and semi-baked ideas get pushed into the universe, and the lack of friction to respond combined with the relati…

SOURCE: 2AMT at 12:59PM
Thursday, July 26, 2012

The hip bone’s connected to the… by Travis Bedard

Rose Rage opens this very night and it’s been a slog personally. Coming on the heels of Tis Pity She’s a Whore I came to this process tired and sort of emotionally roiled. We had a great…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:42PM
Monday, July 16, 2012

Time is a blockhead by Travis Bedard

There are shows you survive through like 8th period Western Civ class… watching the clock and hoping that the teacher forgets you’re there. And then there are shows that you miss like su…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 04:18PM
Wednesday, July 11, 2012

The Voice by Travis Bedard

Nothing is more certain in those pursuing any field with serious intent than that a nagging voice that lives in the back of their heads telling them over and over again what a failure they a…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 03:19PM
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Once More Into the Breach by Travis Bedard

I am up to my neck in revenge tragedy, fully immersed in the schlagobers und blud of Tis Pity She’s a Whore for 7 Towers Theatre Company at the Cathedral of Junk. [Good seats still availab…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 04:10PM
Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Repeats by Travis Bedard

No matter how deeply you bury yourself in new plays and new play creation and theory, theatre remains largely a reflection of where we’ve been (check your local listings). Right now I’m …

SOURCE: 2AMT at 02:26AM
Thursday, May 24, 2012

Tabled by Travis Bedard

I’m proud to announce that our production of Messenger No. 4 has been nominated for 2 Austin Critics’ Table awards. The first is for Production of a Comedy… which is amusing if you’v…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 01:34PM
Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Delivering by Travis Bedard

I have a lot of ideas. A lot. A lot a lot. Friends and loved ones learn to listen, or sort of surf the never-ending flow, for things I truly invest in… or spend a second thought on. In ret…

SOURCE: Cambiare Productions at 03:14AM

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