211 stories from 2AMT
I'm 22 years old, a student at NYU's Dramatic Writing Program. I'm sitting in a coffee shop, surrounded by friends. The topic of conversation is how a teacher admitted that he couldn't name …
An exuberant conversation, hosted by Peter Marks and Howard Sherman, broke out on Twitter yesterday about Shakespeare; many good ideas were debated and discussed. I am writing this post …
Sometimes its not the information you consume, it’s how you use it: Fertile Ground Festival Project Lear’s Follies did a clever thing recently. They snagged a link that was much …
I have spent the past couple days trying to get back into the real world. There is always this time period when you have taken a vacation and now need to get back to work and the world you p…
As the founder and now social media manager for Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival, I have recently had the delightful and curious experience of being able to dip my finger daily into …
Soon after I wrote this Forum Theatre post on the Bechdel Test, the question arose: what might be a similar test for LGBT characters? Being both gay and up for the challenge, I gave it a try…
The murmuring from Canada was startling, and grew louder. First Toronto Globe and Mail theatre critic J. Kelly Nestruck tweeted about the cognitive dissonance of the Canadian national …
I saw a comment on Twitter this morning which reminded me that Alec Baldwin will be delivering the annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy at the Kennedy Center in April. This i…
A few weeks ago, during the TCG Fall Forum, I saw an interesting Twitter conversation and felt compelled to wade in. Kristoffer Diaz had written: Disappointed at the lack of response to ques…
I have opined in the past about the dark arts of theatrical billing, marketing and publicity in such posts as This Blog is Prior to Broadway and Blurb. Now, as the holidays approach…
I am a tremendous admirer of the verses of Robert Frost. I've been studying his work for as long as I've been studying poetry, which is (at happens) more than a couple of decades now, and it…
If you wish to skip to the end, that is where you have the opportunity to do something meaningful. Early in 2011 the national and international theatrical community rallied together behind t…
Once upon a time, perhaps 15 or 20 years ago, I read a really fascinating article which posited that the arts would get more coverage in the media if they opened themselves up and provided g…
What can we learn from the birth of the regional theatre movement? Which arts administrator has reached a mass-critical critical mass? Where did Verdi and Shakespeare work to support their w…
a #neverbedark approach to making more art Three years ago, at Sycamore Rouge, we built six acting cubes, and it not only changed the way we rehearsed- it changed the way we opened the doors…
I haven't been an actor in a long time. I had spent most of nearly three decades (I was a very, very young child actor…) working on one show or another before finding myself torn between t…
Thanks to Travis Bedard, I don't need to say anything about Michael Kaiser's latest post. And if that weren't enough, you could read more from Jeremy Barker and Isaac Butler in reaction. I w…
…and what it means for our future. I was a lucky audience member for the Oct 26th SDC Zelda Fichandler Award presentation at Arena Stage (which was given, this year, to Blanka Zizka of…
I’m nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then there’s a pair of us — don’t tell! They’d banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a …
Marketing. Advertising. Community Outreach. Audience engagement. Audience Development. Social Networking. Targeted Pitches. And so on. This litany of phrases are among the buzzwords common t…
Over the weekend, #newplaytv streamed three interesting, presumably unrelated talks. The first was from Steppenwolf's First Look Festival, titled How to engage 21st Century Audiences for New…
A conversation broke out on Twitter earlier this week, in response to a blog post (is that a squirrel chasing its own tail I see before me?), which led me here, to a small beer of a rant abo…
Orion as a cop on the mean streets of 1970s San Francisco. Hera as the lady of a country estate in Victorian England. Chronus as an Arizona Republican politician debating whether to align hi…
And such a wall, as I would have you think, That had in it a crannied hole or chink… – A Midsummer Night's Dream  I would like to state unequivocally that I believe in a well-fund…
Other people's money is not just the name of a play by Jerry Sterner. It is the temptation put before an "agent" when working on behalf of a "principal" that gives rise to "moral hazard." Ot…
