I want to start by asking a simple question: what plays would get produced if artistic directors were only allowed to select from anonymously-submitted blind scripts? What if, in other words, artistic directors had to choose plays without knowing the names of the people who’d written them – or their...
David J. Loehr’s recent post about warming up an audience with a trailer has put me in mind of another way to extend the theatrical experience that I’ve been thinking about for some time. A few years ago, the Intentional Theatre Group commissioned me to write a short play for...
The Washington, DC area loves Shakespeare. I’m not sure I can say why, exactly – perhaps he’s the most bi-partisan playwright – but the facts are indisputable. Year after year, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, the Folger Theatre, and the Washington Shakespeare Company, among others, put the...
Disruptive technology and disruptive innovation are terms used in business and technology literature to describe innovations that improve a product or service in ways that the market does not expect, typically by being lower priced or designed for a different set of consumers. — Wikipedia I think the world of...
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...
