121 stories by "Guy Yedwab"
I may be a producer, a performer, a director, and a writer (all at different times), but I am also someone else -- I'm a salesman of IT software to businesses. Yes, that's right, when I'm no…
If you were paying attention to the internet today, Instagram rolled out some upcoming changes to Terms and Conditions, and got slapped around because of the perception that it would allow t…
Ray Mark Rinaldi writes in the Denver Post to describe the vacancy at the top of the NEA:
[Rocco Landesman's] departure gives President Obama a chance to put someone new in the job, a leade…
Cool opportunity number one:
Fractured Atlas is seeking a full-time Program Specialist for a newly-created position. The Specialist will manage components of Archipelago, Fractured A…
In addition to fundraising through Kickstarter/IndieGoGo, Kiva (the microlending organization) has a new thing called Kiva Zip, which they wrote about on Fractured Atlas' Blog:
Kiva Zip is …
Leah Hamilton at ArtsBlog asks "Has Endowment Become A Dirty Word?", by examining a successful model, the Springfield Arts Collaborative, which supports arts organizations the following:
Se…
In the unsung-good-news department:
"DoD needs to demonstrate that it can improve the management of clandestine HUMINT before undertaking any further expansion," the Senate Armed Services …
HEARTS LIKE FISTS
Flux Theatre Ensemble
at the Secret Theater
November 30 - December 15
Tues - Sat @ 8pm, Sun @ 7pm
What's a heart? Fortitude? Love? Arteries to choke with donuts? I…
It has been a great week here in New York for the internet reaching out and fostering human connection. First, thanks to Ian Moss for organizing Createquity Office Hours -- it was a gre…
By which I mean the Adam West feature film. After having read some pretty gritty late-Batman material (The Killing Joke, Knightfall, and Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns), it's wo…
RVCBard has a great post on writing theater for fandom. Meanwhile, Seth Godin is writing about creating products for customers who care. These are related ideas, in my mind. If you're g…
PROPRIOCEPTION
The Shop Theater
Nov 29 - Dec 2
As a final project of a student of the Experimental Theater Wing, you'd be comforted to know that Proprioception's is open about the ex…
Fractured Atlas is one option for health insurance, but another option is the Freelancer's Union. I actually have a day job that provides me with health insurance, but for those who don't, t…
If you read my blog, chances are you read Ian Moss + co.'s fantastic art policy blog Createquity. (If not -- what's wrong with your life! Go fix it!). So I probably don't have to tell you ag…
Barry Hessenius has some good questions for selecting the next NEA chair. He also has some names for possibilities for the next chair. I want to loudly second one of his endorsements:
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Don Hall:
As the need for communal experience increases in our increasingly ala carte world, it is worth noting that the play is no longer the thing. The thing, as it were, is the experien…
The centrality of the holiday to the childhood Weltanschauung is neatly encapsulated in the synthetic holiday jingle concocted for the musical by Mr. Pasek and Mr. Paul, which is remorseless…
Not to horn in on Parabasis territory, but having never been a comic/graphic novel person in my youth, and now having a sister who is amongst other things a comic writer and illustrator, I d…
James Fallows uncovers the true roots of Gangam Style: Agnes De Mille and Aaron Copland.
I went and saw a show adapted from Gertrude Stein's Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights recently. And a few years ago I saw another staged piece adapted from Gertrude Stein (I can't remember th…
OBSKENE
HERE Arts Center
Talking Band
November 1-17th
The intellectual crux of Obskene is in the title: Ob-skene, the Greek term for off-stage, is where the worst parts of Greek Drama hap…
Every year, I have to file a report for Fractured Atlas on how my company spends its money. The difficulty is that, up until now, the labels for our expenses don't necessarily align wit…
Not going to tell you to vote, or who to vote for: if you're anywhere on the internet, you'll already have heard that roughly once per second every second you've been online.
I will, howeve…
The New York Innovative Theater Foundation has put together a list of cancellations and postponements, as well as statuses on a few venues that need help.
