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Moving
Nov 19, 2024 · original
Things may look a little chaotic for a bit as we move to a new server and start bringing the site back to life. One thing we’re trying to figure out with this new theme is getting it to show authors’ names on posts and on post excerpts. Slightly larger avatars would be lovely as well. But that’s okay–for a while, it wasn’t even showing multiple authors on the site at all.
Curious.
Mar 16, 2018 · original
The news that Chicago is losing the American Theater Company–here’s the Chicago Tribune story –is stunning. Artistic Director Will Davis was let go, and the board has decided to fold the company. It’s the last paragraph that’s distressing. Under Davis, the theater took a more experimental turn, far from the pathway of developing new work with commercial potential, and although some of the productions were innovative, audiences dwindled and the financial picture deteriorated further, leading the board of directors to determine that the whole institution no longer was financially viable. No company this size goes under in a single season. If there was a financial issue that led to this, it was baked in before Davis took over. But sure, let’s blame it on the experimental work of one year. I feel your loss, Chicago. Some further words from Kris Vire in Time Out . And from PerformInk . Edited
Giving Thought
Nov 28, 2017 · original
Another Giving Tuesday, another day spent deleting emails unread and maybe unsubscribing from the places that send more than two in a day. And I work in the arts. But every year, it’s the same thing. An avalanche of emails, often from theatres and organizations I haven’t heard from most of the rest of the year, each one asking for money, think of the arts at this most special time of the year. At the same time, I watch people on the various social media complaining about all the email, and not just the people who work in the arts. Here’s a crazy idea. When you’re planning for next year’s mailing, stop. Back up a few months. Use a time machine to go back, or set an alarm now, I don’t care which. Your first step should be to look at your relationships with patrons and email subscribers. Do you email them regularly? Do they hear from you once a week? Every other week? Then you don’t have to
Do we need more theatre in which audiences take an active role?
Aug 9, 2017 · original
Let’s posit two categories of theatre. To be dramatic (that’s what we do, right?) we’ll call the first category “Sit-down-and-shut-up” theatre, meaning theatrical productions in which the audience is fundamentally expected to watch attentively but take no action that might disrupt the flow of performances or distract other audience members. This has made up the majority of what we call theatre at least since hissing the villain in melodramas went out of fashion. Yes, audiences are allowed to laugh or gasp or shift in seats at tense moments, and their presence and reactions do affect the overall experience; but they are mostly constrained to keep it very subtle. We’ll call the other category “Don’t-just-sit-there-do-something” theatre, meaning theatrical productions in which the audience is more actively involved in the performance whether verbally or kinetically or in several modalities.
Stoking the Fires
Mar 23, 2017 · original
I often feel alone. My life experiences and the demands of my day-to-day are so specific to my life producing and performing in small budget theatre that it often feels that outside of rehearsal I can go for days without running into (a non-wife) someone who truly understands what I’m going through on a gut level. I’ve worked with car dealers, lawyers, engineers and scientists and they’re all tolerant and interested in my other-work stories but they don’t have analogous struggles. That changed for me in 2006. While sitting in an empty office waiting for rehearsal to being I performed a Google brand internet search for theatre blogs to add to the burgeoning collection of blogs I had plugged into Google Reader. I’m not sure why it hadn’t occurred to me before but the search was fruitful enough. It turned up Scott Walters, Isaac Butler, Tony Adams, Garret Eisler, Adam Szymkowicz, Tom Loughl
Attemping to Find a Moral
Feb 14, 2017 · original
There is good conversation and bad conversation. We’ve all been party to both. We’ve all had those talks that go late into the night and feel like you’re solving the world. Additive conversations where active listening provides the fuel for synthesis of new ideas better than the preconceived notions of either party. It is the ideal of collaboration we ‘re all referring to when we hold “community” up as a goal. We have all also been on the other side of that communication chasm – the black hole of no listening, of ideological bullies monologuing over each other to the annoyance of everyone within earshot. This is what people accuse all social media of being. (They’re wrong but I’ll be an ideological bully about that another time.) A few years ago more theatremakers moved onto social media platforms and the conversation that I’d been having about leveraging this platform for small company
The Guy from New York
Feb 12, 2017 · original
This past weekend on NPR’s Weekend Edition, Scott Simon talked with David Marcus , a senior contributor to The Federalist and the artistic director of a theater company in New York City, about defunding the National Endowment for the Arts. Go ahead and listen. I’ll wait. And if you’re angry by the end, don’t blame Scott, he’s just doing what a journalist should. It’s important to know this point of view is out there. I will say, it’s rich to hear that point of view from a theatre artist in Brooklyn. Or, well, anywhere in the greater New York area. Let me present a different point of view from the heart of Kentuckiana. (Note: I spent many years in the greater New York area. Eighteen years in Indiana, I’m still called “the guy from New York.”) As someone working in the arts in a rural area–we’re near Louisville and Cincinnati, but far enough away that our county has a total population of j
Why we need plays about Capitalism
Feb 3, 2017 · original
It’s no accident that ancient and renaissance playwrights were drawn to write plays about heroes and nobles. Not only were they aspirational figures whose lives would be ripe for curiosity by potential patrons and audience members, heroes and nobles also made decisions that extensively affected the day to day experiences of most people. People had a reasonable interest in exploring the ways in which those decisions might be made. While the aspirational interest in powerful individuals still applies to 21st century audiences, more of the decisions that affect our day to day experiences are made through huge, largely impersonal processes, especially those associated with the economic model of capitalism. These processes get less artistic attention than individuals for a variety of reasons, but I here argue that as a result there is a theatrical niche available examining these processes and
Dancing With Myself
Jun 29, 2016 · original
I’m almost as busy as you are. In that rush of “on to the next thing” I currently get most of my news on the fly from my Twitter and Facebook feeds. On a quick scroll through Twitter I caught my friend Reina Hardy crowing about her pending crossing of the border for something called Monologues for Nobody. I chased it down through a few links, saw that this was a Toronto Fringe project curated/commissioned by longtime #2amt contributor Jordan Mechano , read just a little about it and got excited to share this project more broadly. I asked Mechano a batch of questions I had about Monologues for Nobody and I hope you enjoy his answers as much as I did. Travis So what is “Monologues for Nobody”? Monologues for Nobody is an experimental theatrical project that I am producing at the 2016 Toronto Fringe Festival . The Toronto Fringe is a traditional Fringe model, whereby artists are drawn from
Hashtag 2thtr
Jun 17, 2016 · original
After careful consideration and conversation, it’s time. The 2amt hashtag is shifting to #2thtr . This week’s events and hashtag fever have been catalysts, but we’ve been moving towards a second act for a while now. Some of those plans and ideas have been percolating for a while–stay tuned–and some spring up when you least expect them. This would be the latter. What does this mean for the website? The website and the Twitter handle etc will remain the same, it’s only the Twitter hashtag that’s changing. Or evolving. We’re bringing those late night 2 a.m. conversations out into the daylight, into the theatres, into the organizations, and hopefully putting them into practice. Some of us have gotten a headstart on that in the last year or two, but there’s more to be done. Why 2thtr? Several reasons. It keeps a link to our identity as 2 a.m. theatre. And it gets the “amt” out of the tag to a

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