The League of Independent Theater posted a top 10 from their meeting on "Making a Difference" during Indie Theater Week:LIT Making a Difference 201 " TOP 10Making a difference for… survivi…
This isn't a review, because it was a work in progress, but I also saw Baby No More Times at the Jam On Toast festival from New Georges, playing at Dixon Place,It's a feminist pop music caba…
It's a typical story. Girl meets boy. Girl and boy get together. Boy distributes girl's sext all over school. Mirror-man and glowing girl fight an unearthly battle across the surface of the …
Copyright Sasha Arutyunova 2014Some plays are big, on the grand scale of an epic. Other plays are tiny, occupying the infinite and narrow space between two people. Party Play, an original pr…
I woke up this morning and decided that I really wanted to see the Leyton Orient - Rotherham United game today. If you haven't heard of these clubs, I can't blame you -- they're third-tier t…
If you're reading this, you're interested in the intersection of arts and policy. (If you're not reading this... woah.)As the new webmaster of the League of Independent Theater (amongst many…
I may look like a cultural pundit to you, but in my day job I work as a consultant in the Information Technology space. (I know, thrilling). As a result, I've spent the last five years worki…
I know you need cheap space. There's two opportunities for it, courtesy of the League of Independent Theater.From the website -- first, the Charter Barter Program:The League's Real Estate Co…
I promise.It's been a big bizarre change of pace for me in life.My day job continues to consume.I'm now the Director of Operations for the League of Independent Theater.I'm working on my own…
I wanted to keep you more in touch with what the League of Independent Theater has been doing for this election (NYC city-wide). I got too tied up to blog about it. (I will likely blog more …
Question: Is Theater Inherently Elitist? Yes. Theater is labor, resource, and real estate intensive. Theater must therefore be expensive to recoup its costs. Or theater must rely on the …
Another part in our continuing series on Shit You Should Know. It's an election year. It's an important election. (Mayor, a majority of city council seats, and many other positions are ope…
Typically, I don't enjoy writing a negative review -- I try to find the positive in the production, or I don't write a review at all. I figure that usually a bad play -- if it made it far en…
The following is a press release from the League of Independent Theater, who are endorsing some key political players who are running for office -- all of whom have adopted our Performi…
I haven't been updating much on the blog because my life is full of tangible things, but I haven't been dipping into theory or postulating as much. In the meantime, while I recharge my theo…
The following are raw notes from Monday Night's mayoral forum at Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope. It's a lot of info, but I bolded the things that stuck out to me. John Liu …
Sorry I haven't been doing well updating you all about the campaign to support the arts in NYC. We've been knocking it out of the park. I'm incredibly excited about the potential in this ele…
I had my own round-up of posts in the past about how we make the case, but for this year's national arts advocacy day, here's 10 reasons to support the arts. I'm going to bring this blog up…
The Onion tells you to "Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life": I have always been a big proponent of following your heart…
In the midst of an article about debate about a plan to bring housing to Pier 40: "It is my hope that we as a community can come together and work toward an achievable goal through an open,…
I've mentioned before the League of Independent Theater Meet the Candidates 2013 event which brought together 20-odd candidates to debate areas of arts policy as pertains to a specific …
I'm pretty gosh-darn exhausted, but initial impressions upon getting home from the Meet the Candidates Forum was that a packed-full room of enthusiastic, interested artists was presente…
An artist really eloquently puts why it's important for artists to get paid for their work: It's becoming a bigger and bigger cultural conversation, whether it's the Upright Cit…
That's right. If you say you do socially conscious work, or you think that the City could be doing more to be supporting the arts, then you have no excuse not to come to the League of Indepe…