Wednesday, 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 12:09PMThursday, 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."
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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 11:48AMSaturday, March 17, 2012
I have heard from a couple people involved with the Counting New Beans book that was just released with information that pertains to my previous post. Clayton Lord, the director of comm…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 05:26PMFriday, March 16, 2012
I just received in the mail today a copy of Theatre Bay Area's newly released Counting New Beans: Intrinsic Impact and the Value of Art. While I am opening a show Thursday and won't get to r…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 05:24PMFriday, March 9, 2012
My first Huffington Post article, "Occupy the Arts," is now available on the website. It is a reworking and condensation of some of what I wrote Fusing Arts, Culture and Social Change.
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 09:28AMThursday, March 8, 2012
I was surprised and pleased to see that my TEDxMichigan Ave talk from last May entitled "Bringing the Arts Back Home" has been transferred to the TED site.There seem to be 13 of the presenta…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 07:57PMWednesday, February 29, 2012
Dear Readers -- I have just been invited to be a contributor to the theater section of the Huffington Post. I am honored and happy to accept. This will not affect this blog -- my writing wil…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 08:21PMTuesday, February 28, 2012
Let me get this straight: the State of Texas gave the producers of The Tree of Life $434,252.79 as a subsidy for them to shoot a single film in Texas. And the NEA annual budget is how much?
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 09:42AMSunday, February 19, 2012
I get a lot of traffic on this site due to a couple posts that Dennis Baker links to in his 2008 post "Rutgers MFA Acting Program". Today, there was a comment I'd like to give more circulati…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 05:30PMThursday, February 16, 2012
OK., this and this is making me angry. Listen, I am glad that the President has requested more money for the NEA -- not enough, of course, because we are so far behind the eight ball as far …
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 03:00PMSunday, February 12, 2012
From Good Work (p 205):
In the question periods after his talks, Schumacher would invariably get asked by someone in the audience, "But what can I do?" His simple answer was "Do t…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 08:02PMBeing creative is better than buying creative.
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 04:37PMI am reading an anthology of speeches made by E. F. Schumacher which were gathered together under the title Good Work. He writes:
One of the greatest confusions, in most discussions, is the …
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 12:40PMFriday, February 10, 2012
Fifteen years ago, Tony Kushner delivered the keynote address to the assembled college theatre professors of the US at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) convention. His …
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 12:18PMSunday, February 5, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
"You've Cott Mail" today is all about "the need to fail." I'm with Adam Thurman on this one: "I've had to learn (the hard way) that the only failures that move us forward are the ones where …
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 09:45AMWednesday, February 1, 2012
"It would be better if art were nameless, and that those of us who write about art in books and the reviews and newspapers, always clacking about art, or Art, or ART, were constrained someho…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 08:59AMTuesday, January 31, 2012
In a fascinating interview on Huffington Post, Natalie Merchant discusses motherhood, her album Leave Your Sleep, and her development as an artist. Among the many thoughtful things she has t…
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 09:49AMWednesday, January 25, 2012
As many of you have probably recognized over the years, one of my favorite things to write about are analogues to the arts I have found, i.e., other fields that are exploring similar issues …
SOURCE: Theatre Ideas at 08:16PM