So you’re at the Humana Festival of New American Plays and you’ve got a few minutes. You’ve seen the art, you’ve looked at the gifts, you’ve had a bourbon. Maybe you’re in the mood to play a game. Maybe you’re looking for something to engage audiences at your own theatre...
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As Adam Feldman pointed out this week on the Time Out New York site: “(Mike) Daisey acknowledged that he had erred in presenting his work—a hard-hitting look at the brutal Chinese labor conditions that underwrite our sleek electronic gizmos—on Ira Glass’s series because ‘the tools of theater are not the...
Subscribe to the 2amt podcast in iTunes. There’s an aggressive sort of experimental theatre that longs to prove not just how smart it is, but how much smarter it is than you. Or how much more grad school it went to. Rubber Repertory is not that theatre. Rubber Rep, made...
You get lured in with a promise of queso and get stuck with a podcast… New York One Minute Play Festival Artistic Director Dominic D’Andrea thought he was taking a quiet trip to Austin and got caught got caught in my web. I sat down with the Johnny Appleseed of...
Beth Burns is the sort of person who is better than you at everything but doesn’t get all showy about it, and that allows you to retain your dignity. Altogether a nice sort of person to be around. She doesn’t lord her award nominations over you, or her wins, or...
Summertime means festivals, fringe and otherwise. In today’s podcast, we’ll hear from some of the playwrights who attended the JAW Festival at Portland Center Stage, including Rob Handel, managing director of 13P, and Jason Wells. Then we visit the Toronto Fringe Festival with playwright Alison Broverman. Finally, Rebecca Coleman talks...
It’s said that if a butterfly flaps its wings in Illinois, it can cause a rainstorm in Brazil. I’m not sure how meteorologically sound that is, but it certainly holds true in the world of social media. In today’s podcast, Dave Charest (@DaveCharest) talks with Amy Wratchford (@AmyWratchford), managing director...
By popular demand, it’s the debut of the first 2amt podcast. This time out, Jax Steager visits the Hollywood Fringe Festival and interviews Ben Hill, producing director of the Hollywood Fringe, with snippets of interviews with Alexa Hanrahan, support director, and Nick Hill, the Fringe Central manager. If you’d like...