Fire in the Theatre: Deconflating the Conflagration: Keeping Our Eye On The Ball And then that happened! Our landslide NO vote to save 99-seat theatre! After months of great stupidity and pa…
Fire in the Theatre! Deconflating the Conflagration: It's All Been Said AEA blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah. Blah bla…
Fire in the Theatre! Deconflating the Conflagration: Audience Last year I went to a production at a 40-seat theatre and sat down beside a stranger in the second row. He immediately turned to…
Fire in the Theatre! Deconflating the Conflagration: Community, Finally By Jay McAdams LA has never been known as a theatre town. At least not by folks in other cities. But we LA theatre-mak…
Fire in the Theatre! De-conflating the Conflagration: The Working Actor Actors are insecure. I am one, so I know. I shouldn't have told you that I'm insecure, 'cuz now you're judging me, are…
Fire in the Theatre! De-conflating the Conflagration: The WIFM In non-profit fundraising the WIFM is a question you're supposed to be able to answer from a donor's POV; What's In it For M…
There has been much written and said about the current Actors' Equity attack on 99-seat theatre. Most of if has been eloquent and passionate and heartfelt. And much of it has been absolute r…
TOURING THE WILD WEST This summer a professor called and said that she'd seen our show, La Razón Blindada, a couple of years ago and wanted to book it at her university. Great. But then s…
Grande Dilemma by Jay McAdams Like everyone, I pass a Starbucks on my way to work every day. One with a drive-thru! OMG. As a middle-aged white guy, I can't tell you how excited I was when t…
I recently found myself staring over a plastic religious figure on the dashboard of a Salvadoran taxi as it swerved over the center line into the opposing lanes. Any comfort I might have tak…
Jay McAdams, whose 24th Street Theatre won the Peter Zeisler Award for outstanding achievement in American theater at the recent Theatre Communications Group conference in Boston, writes abo…