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Over the past 48 hours, the culture pages in England have been filled with reports which are all variants of the same story: "Walkouts abound at The Royal Shakespeare Company's Marat/Sade." …
Been a while…today we’re going to talk to New York-based lighting designer Natalie Robin. Take it away, Natalie! I was a dancer from childhood. And then started doing theater…
I suspect that, for many working in the arts, the weekday matinee is no man's land. I'm not suggesting that we don't operate them, or deal with them, but I do wonder the last time any of you…
THEATER IN BUFFALO IS NOT A CONTRADICTION. On Allen Street in Buffalo, New York, there is an establishment called Rust Belt Books. While the name certainly pays ironic tribute to an outsider…
They come, with startling regularity, on Monday and Tuesday each week. "The Grosses." The Broadway League aggregates and releases the gross sales and attendance for every Broadway show on Mo…
Tweets, blogs and other manners of Internet posting have been aflame since this morning, when Charles Isherwood of The New York Times declared online that he wished to forego having to revie…
It’s always nice to be on the same page as Polly Carl. If you haven’t read her latest HowlRound post, A Theater of YES!, go check it out. One reason I appreciate her train of tho…
"Everyone," I wrote in a tweet to promote my previous blog post, "enjoys a good blurbing now and again." Although I didn't mind if someone read some perverse double entendre into "blurbing,"…
When Jim Leonard was an English major at Hanover College in the late seventies, where I was running a one man theatre department, he responded to a request I issued for “extras” …
"There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments, but you have to prepare for that, you have to e…
"…being a playwright is hard. One of my profs once said to me you have to work hard at it for at least 10 years before you start to see any movement." –Advice For Playwrights Startin…
Dear @Resident Theatre Company or @Individual Show: You know I love you and so I'm sorry to do this impersonally. But we have to talk. I know it's hard to hear those words, because they alwa…
Previously in this column: The members of Bright Alchemy Theatre, a very young devised theatre company based in Washington, DC, have spent the last nine months working on its new project whi…
Alright, I've had it and I'm not keeping it to myself anymore. It seems that not a day goes by that a news item appears one place or another announcing that someone famous is considering/acq…
Halcyon Theatre and Caffeine Theatre present Return to the Upright Position, a reading of an online text collaboration which conceived and edited by Caridad Svich. Written during the six mon…
As the opening phrase of the following essay indicates, it was written on the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon; this explains why the tit…
More and more, I remind myself to look out the window of the theater and see if the people on the sidewalk have any relationship to the people or the story on the stage. I moved away from Ch…
A couple of weeks back I stumbled upon Beloit College's annual "Mindset List." Every year since 1998, a faculty member and a (now former) administrator at Beloit have collaborated to assembl…
Every March, tens of thousands of people obsessed with technology, music, and film gather in Austin, Texas for 10 days of learning, hand-shaking, business-making, art-creating, and of course…
Here’s the first of several spotlights on British stage directors. Â Have a great remainder of the week! Meet Darren A. Furniss Current Town: East Midlands, UK Theatre Affiliation: A…
Here in Vancouver, as a theatre producer, one of your greatest challenges is simply finding space. We have two major theatre companies, The Vancouver Playhouse and the Arts Club, that own th…
I promise, this is not another premature eulogy for Steve Jobs. I saw this on Google+ this morning. This is an old video of Steve Jobs responding to a critic at the World Wide Developers Con…
All of meme. Meme, myself and I. Auntie Meme. Do, re, meme, fa, so, la, ti do. I meme of Jeannie. I could go on. And on. For hours. I won't. One of the more interesting entertainments to ari…
The non-profit model is living on borrowed time. The current model is dying. Even still, I think we spend more time trying to figure out how to fund a show than actually making the show. Rea…
I've been trying to fully digest the recent HowlRound post On Theatricality by Lydia Stryk. With a slew of comments (15 at my last count), it's generated quite a bit of conversation. From th…
