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Last week, while a fallow Friday here, was filled with plays opening and closing, plus the big final weekend of the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville. You can hear more about the Festival from this story on NPR’s All Things Considered. (I was lucky enough to get into...
- April 2, 2010
An amazing memo surfaced today, which I first heard about in this Maclean’s article by Jaime Weinman. It’s a memo from David Mamet to the writing staff of his recently cancelled television series, The Unit. Whatever you may think of Mamet–and I know a lot of 2am folk who have...
- March 24, 2010
It’s Friday. These are stories we’ve been following this week. We’re taking the pulse of the #2amt folk–and in some cases, raising those pulses… And here’s a thought. There’s been a lot of talk about transparency and process, we need to introduce audiences to our process, let them see. A...
- March 19, 2010
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I have talked time and again over at the Cambiare Productions blog about relationships and trust metrics and “street cred” and…. yes I’m as surprised as you are that anyone reads… but I’m going to restate it here because it needs restating. Ask a theatre artist what they don’t have,...
- March 17, 2010
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Full disclosure. I am by trade a playwright. I may be an artist-in-residence, producer, sound designer, graphic designer, voiceover artist and marketing department for my own theatre company, which, yes, I co-founded. Those are things I do and can do. But I identify myself as a writer. With that in...
- March 16, 2010
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Friday. You know what that means. Stories, trends, ideas that we’ve been following. And a follow Friday recommendation. If you’re on Twitter, most of us are, too. Search the #2amt hashtag to find us, follow us and get in the conversation. (They’re not at 2am in the morning, trust me.)...
- March 12, 2010
Concerts. Big concerts—arena size. I often hear and read how potential audiences, if they’re not going to theater, are going to arena-size, celebrity-driven concerts. And if they’re not at a big concert, they’re at home watching American Idol or Lost. None of this is true. Sure, every week tens of millions are streaming Netflix,...
- March 11, 2010
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Odds are the first four words ever spoken were “tell me a story.” And the next four? “Once upon a time…” It’s why we have cave paintings, sculpture, theatre, film, television both scripted and “real.” Everything in our world is crafted to communicate something, whether memory or information, association or...
- March 9, 2010
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