The “10 Years” list

28.04.2011

Somebody sent me an email kinda like this: I’m gonna teach a class called NOW… planning to talk about fantastic, important, influential, weird stuff that has happened in the theatre in the last 10 years. My goal is to expose these students to much more than they usually get at the university. What do you [...]

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I Saw Plays Read

27.04.2011

We haven’t done that in a while. We used to have a really cool play reading series. We’re gonna try to do it again next year. At any rate, it was really nice to see & hear a couple of plays read aloud and then talk about them. Though, it was discouraging to hear a [...]

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Humana 2011 Announced

10.11.2010
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Exciting line-up this year. Anne Washburn, Jordan Harrison, Peter Sinn Nachtrieb, to name a few. The biggest coup, to my eyes, is getting Anne Kaufman to direct (Maple and Vine.) Note to Actors’ Theatre: Since it’s a festival about playwrighting, wouldn’t it be nice to list the playwrights’ names with the plays? They deserve better.

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Tweets of the Week: 2010-07-19

19.07.2010

NEA: People who engage with art through media technologies attend performances or exhibits at 2-3 times the rate of non-media participants. # Audience 2.0 – Source for the previous: http://ow.ly/1qHRBi #

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Tips for Artistic Directors: #2 – Say Thank You

01.06.2010
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This part of what will be a series of short, fast, useful tips for people thinking about how to be better Artistic Directors. Tip #2: Say “thank-you.” That’s just good advice for being a decent human being, but it’s all too often forgotten by stressed-out people with a lot to do. Especially since so many [...]

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Tips for Artistic Directors #1: Don’t Work With Assholes

21.05.2010
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Tip #1: Don’t work with assholes.

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10 Questions for Nature Theater of Oklahoma

21.05.2010
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I corresponded by email with Kelly Copper of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma this week.

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Nature Theater on using less

19.05.2010

I’ve never seen adult human beings completely, uncontrollably lose their shit with laughter they way they did during that show

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Tweets of the Week: 2010-05-10

10.05.2010

Playwright Kenneth Brown talks about his work with The Living Theatre on "The Brig" @ Cultural Compass: http://ow.ly/1GAFv #

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Tweets of the Week: 2010-05-03

03.05.2010

RT @Walling1: wireless receivers didn't survive the fire. Anyone have 3 wireless handheld mics @avltheatre could borrow for our next show? # The Playgoer's got a nice awards season round-up: http://ow.ly/1Dtka # Sunday reading: "Surely the notion of art emerging whatever the circumstances, whatever the scarcities, is outdated." http://ow.ly/1F92F #

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