Among the entertainments and distractions wrought by Twitter are the propagation of memes or hashtag games, in which a topic is tossed out for the masses, from which to wring endless variations, almost always humorous. For example, yesterday, in honor of the weekend’s number one film, folks were spinning comedy...
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Here’s this week’s installment of the director-to-director interview series. Thanks for reading! Are there other questions that you would like to see included in future interviews? If so, add them in the comment section below or email me at nicole@thinkingcaptheatre.com … Meet Kristina Lloyd Hometown: Los Angeles Freelance Director. Not currently affiliated...
Sometime in the 1970s, the once ubiquitous gossip columnist Rona Barrett began reporting box office grosses during her regular appearances on Good Morning America. Prior to that, such statistics were available only to readers of Variety, long the entertainment bible (and perhaps to Hollywood Reporter readers as well, though as...
I am not blocked, I write in the text window. This is not block. But it had been months, it seemed. It had been years, been centuries. Worse than that; it had been minutes, bound fast to the bottom of the hourglass, each grain landing square on the bridge of...
The inquiries, mostly via Twitter, are cordial, casual and polite. “Let us know what you think,” they ask, in response to my mentioning what show I’ll be seeing later that day. “I loved it,” they say, “Hope u do 2.” Until three weeks ago, I had a standard answer to...
Here’s this week’s installment of the director-to-director interview series. Enjoy! Meet Jessica Hutchinson Hometown: I was an Air Force Brat, but I claim Omaha, Nebraska Current City: Chicago Theatre affiliation: Artistic Director of New Leaf Theatre 1. What attracted you to directing? I started as an actor, but midway through...
When I was asked to blog the Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) I immediately agreed to take on the task, but as the festival neared I began to wonder what exactly I would write about. I’m sure many in the 2AMt community have attended and participated in new work festivals...
“In the universe – just like in music, or architecture, or relationships – the absence, the space between, is just as important as the observable, tangible things.” — Dear Galileo by Claire Willett One of the questions I continually run up against when I’m writing a play is this: “Who...
I get a lot of questions about Kickstarter and funding commissions through this tool, and have chimed in on a number of Twitter conversations about its effectiveness. Kickstarter is a threshold giving system: for those unfamiliar with it, an artist or small organization can set up a fundraising campaign through...
As a result of fairly assiduous Twitter use, I have a very respectable score on Klout. However, now that Klout is about to start factoring in FourSquare activity, I have begun “checking in” these past few days, though I registered at least a year ago and find it somewhat juvenile...