64 stories 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…
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 conversa…
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…
The Chicago Reader published as careful and deliberate a piece of investigative journalism covering the arts as I can ever remember reading. Â In the piece Amy Leavitt and Chris Piatt laid…
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 narrati…
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 a …
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. …
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.�…
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.…
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 m…
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…
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 t…
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…
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 invariably in…
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…
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 experienc…
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 bea…
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 …
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 and asi…
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…
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 conversat…
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…
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…
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…
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 Tis…
