64 stories by "Travis Bedard"
If you have been in near-Travis orbit of late you have been flooded with Titus-talk. The hot news of the moment (aside from my eldest sister's lovely wedding) has been that I have been cast …
The theatre niche of the social media stream operates much like any other Animal Farm and in this particular backwater Animal Farm I am a donkey who has lived a long time. Hang arou…
Those who operate in near-Travis orbit will hear me repeat phrases and motifs repeatedly as I hammer out a life's philosophy before I die. "All we have is time and people" for instance. Or l…
Last fall the New Works community in Austin was awarded a planning grant from the Mellon foundation to explore (and model) infrastructure to support the creation of… well… New Work (http…
A friend asked what I felt a vibrant theatre community was. Disappointed to realize I hadn't already defined that term in this space I told her I would write up a post. This is that post. A …
Once upon a time in a blog post not so terribly far away I mentioned that you should be careful not to post the same platitudes on Twitter every one is posting every day because I was seeing…
This has been a fallow year for Cambiare Productions. We're not dead. You can't kill a guerilla group made up of two people and a mathematician (hi Amanda!). We've been busy bathing in other…
I made them for you so you don't have to think too hard. The average theatre human finally discovered Twitter in 2010. There are plenty of folks coming behind you so please get out of the do…
As has happened so many times in the last couple of years I said something off the cuff that someone else has paid entirely too much attention to. On November 19th I said: And yesterday Mr. …
Peter Marks of the Washington Post tosses off a quick "leave me alone" note to Washington theatremakers at the perfect time for me to talk about audiences: opening night of Rubber Rep's Biog…
Then Will, Amanda and I have been blessed indeed. For a company with as short a production history and as skinny a wallet as Cambiare has, we have been blessed to work with the very best peo…
A couple of weeks ago Julie Burt Nichols of the Bailiwick in Chicago popped up on Twitter and asked for pros and cons of social media in theatre marketing… I got volunteered. My answers we…
I have never been able to see those stupid magic eye images… Y'know these things: Never. Not once. Not then. Not now. "Oh but Travis that's nothing, that's a parlor trick, it doesn't mean …
Now granted I heard that from a frame salesperson, but it sounds good right? She was responding to my incredulity at what was easily a 6 inch thick frame around a 4 inch picture. Her longer …
