45 stories from lucaskrech.livejournal.com
During the Passover Seder participants relate the liberation of Jews from Egypt to their own lives. The word for Egypt is Mitzrayyim. While used to refer to the Egypt of Jewish enslavement, …
I filed my taxes this weekend. Well, rather I sent all my financial info off to my accountant and he compiled it and let me know how much I owe. A very pleasant number by the way. The whole …
Last week I wrote about trouble with a show in terms of being incorrectly informed about inventory and house plot units. A bit of a cliffhanger that was, so I wanted to give you the resoluti…
I just had a phone call from my ME for an upcoming show. Good News and Bad News. Good News: The theater has a larger inventory than we initially thought. So we can return most of the rental.…
Here we are on the first Monday of a new year. 2011. Beginnings like this, similar in many ways to birthdays, are a common place to make resolutions for change. I have come to realize after …
It sure has been a productive year here at Light Cue 23. Over a hundred blog posts, most of them 1-2 page essays (if written in a non-digital format), so somewhere between 100-200 pages of t…
Theater is boring.
This is more true than most theater makers are willing to admit. I can not count the number of times I have seen some version of “Our subscriber base is getting old,…
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The New Year is my favorite holiday. It is wholly arbitrary and I find that delightful. One day out of the year the whole world celebrates together. Along with celebration is reflection. 200…
Note: This was originally posted almost two years ago in December of 2007. It is interesting to me to see how much more sophisticated my writing on finances is now than it was then.
I hope y…
I have heard from a few people that they have been missing the crossposted updates from my new blog. If you have been reading here and wondering why the posts stopped, it is probably becaus…
Plays share a lot in common with novels. They are character driven long-form storytelling. Designing for dance differs greatly from theatrical works. If theatre is like a novel, then dance …
I have been thinking for quite some time now about how to structure my blog in a way that really works for me. Upon rather serious thinking and brainstorming I realized that a major problem…
I often find myself designing the same show twice. No I am not talking about being hired by two different producers for the same play, I am talking about lighting in spaces that have a lowe…
LinkLike a magician pulling a freshly hatched chick from a sack, TJT's production transforms Allen's humdrum script into something fresh and almost substantial. Director Nancy Carlin keeps t…
"There are a million ways to skin a cat," or so the saying goes.I was thinking about this the other day in regards to visual style while in my studio designing a lightplot. I was thinking a…
New York Theater is a kind of amazing bubble. There are so many people aching and excited to work that there is nowhere near enough work to go around. Many very talented actors, directors …
I had coffee this afternoon with a Bay Area director who, for the sake of propriety, I will leave nameless. I asked him, being new to the area, where I could find the Richard Foreman, Woost…
Shiver me Timbers!Pirates have never been quite who we think they are. In the "golden age of piracy" " from 1650 to 1730 " the idea of the pirate as the senseless, savage Bluebeard that ling…
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