211 stories from 2AMT
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…
As I just mentioned, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe was born in 1947 as the brainchild of a group of theatre artists who were rejected from the fledgling International Festival and responded …
What Fringe Means for Local Playwrights The Kansas City Fringe recently held its 8th festival, and if there's one thing the festival has become known for (besides burlesque) it's as a breedi…
I am a snob. Five years into my association with the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and having just completed the second successful Festival with the venue company I co-founded and manage, I adm…
In my role as executive director of the South Florida Theatre League, I regularly get asked why South Florida doesn't have a fringe festival. If we can support one of the largest and most im…
 I've been involved in the Vancouver Fringe in every way except performer. I've worked for a venue, I've volunteered, I've produced & stage managed, and for the past tw…
Fringe Festivals are a time for experimentation in theater. I look forward to seeing the mix of sights and sounds at the Capital Fringe Festival every year. There’s one thing I donR…
I've been going to fringe festivals for a while now, both as an audience member and a producer. Each time, we've produced my own work–the playwright works cheap, which helps. B…
I’ve been lucky enough to experience many different aspects of fringe marketing. I’ve promoted my own shows, reviewed shows (a questionable choice), and was brought on this year …
Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast series, Twenty. Why Twenty? Simple. Quick, twenty minute conversations with theatre artists and professionals from around the world. Sometimes…
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…
As I write this blog post, I have a play in rehearsal that features a few eminently spoil-able plot points. It's hard to explain without, you know, spoiling anything for people, but we c…
One of my favorite things about summer in an arts organization is that you get a couple of precious weeks where, in between the planning and the subscription mailings, there’s a little…
This afternoon, the New York Times ran a story by Patrick Healy about the producers of Three’s Company & their reaction to 3C, a play by David Adjmi. At issue is the question of c…
When I read Howard's HowlRound article “What’s Wrong with Canadian Theatre” I chuckled to myself. Name five Canadian playwrights? I immediately rattled off five Vancouver p…
No matter how deeply you bury yourself in new plays and new play creation and theory, theatre remains largely a reflection of where we've been (check your local listings). Right now I'm in t…
I should be writing other things. And I hate to have two posts in a row reacting to Michael Kaiser’s posts at Huffington Post. But here we are. Instead, here are some quick reactions t…
Michael Kaiser published a new column on the Huffington Post yesterday that got me a bit riled up. He speaks of an organization to which he has consulted over the past year and their lack of…
I'm currently writing a play called The Secret of the Biological Clock, about a former girl detective who is turning 37 and wants to solve the mystery of what makes a family. I have spent th…
Somewhat by accident, I stumbled into a weekly twitter conversation about new play development (hashtag #newplay) despite the fact that I am not a playwright. What I am is a university profe…
In the background: A rainy night in New York City in late spring. In the foreground: a live stream broadcast of Thais Flaitt's Portuguese translation of my play The Way of Water from Cia de …
A lot has been said about the Guthrie's season announcement, and probably a lot more will be. I want to focus on one part of it. But first, I want to say that while I don't disagree with mos…
I get it. Taxes are a necessary part of civic life. But what some of our civic officials don't seem to always get is that taxes don't always guarantee the revenue they're hoping to make. Whe…
There is a lot of conversation within the #2amt community about new models for making art, never being dark, and working collaboratively. Â Progress Lab in Vancouver is a prime example of …
