Here’s an extra-large helping of stories to get you through the Memorial Day weekend. What have we been following at 2amt this week? Storefronts and stories, history and hopes. Recipes and blueprints, restaurants and royalties. Responsibility and sustainability, creativity and reality. Also, if you’ve ever said, “Bring me the head...
May 2010
Ah, Dynamic Pricing. The holy grail of entertainment earned revenue. Has worked for the airlines for YEARS. And yet we are still deeply afraid of it. What am I talking about? Assumptions number 3, 4, and 5. Let’s throw out the notion that two people sitting next to each other...
Again and again and again at the Theater Bay Area conference a few weeks ago I heard playwrights being given the cold, hard truth about why their work is not getting produced (and why it is). Here’s the facts: The open submissions process is a lie. Work does not rise...
Or more precisely, just listen, as this is just the audio from Michael Kaiser’s appearance at Portland Center Stage last week. Whether you agree or disagree with his advice and observations, it’s worth a listen. Some of his advice applies more towards the large, institutional theatres and, in many ways,...
I’ve just finished reading this passionate post by Michael Billington on the Guardian’s Theatre Blog imploring Jeremy Hunt, the culture minister of the new coalition government in the UK, not to cut funding for the arts. It’s a fairly straightforward argument, complete with the requisite data showing quite clearly that...
I am a ranter. No surprise I guess that a blogger likes ranting, it would seem to be a blogger’s stock in trade, and I have a reputation as something of a John the Baptist of the CAPS LOCK… but I more specifically mean in real life. I tend to...
I recently had the opportunity to meet up IRL (in real life) with @scottyiseri and @Chris_Ashworth, two gentlemen whose thoughts I have been following regularly through the #2amt hashtag on Twitter. Each time I was astonished, once again, at the value of translating the “idea” of a person… the strange...
Thank God it’s on Friday again. Here are some of the stories we’ve been following at 2amt. This week’s batch includes one word, two words, dirty words, not-so-dirty words, digital analogs, a submission statement and even a touch of Dr. Seuss… Brittney Filek-Gibson on partying down Spinning off of Trisha...
In other words, May the fourth be with you. Here are just some of the stories we’ve been following of late at 2amt. As always, there’s a loose theme or two weaving in and out. This time around, we looking at finding your market and how to talk to them,...
