David Loehr caught a little tweet of mine today and @’d me asking if I’d join 2amtheatre and write a 140+ character post about my observation. Note how quickly that communication turned into an action. Here is my inaugural post: This morning I was putting together a training guide for...
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So, you’re opening a channel for your audience to talk to you about your company, your work and their experience of it. It’s pretty much a guarantee that as SOON as you start talking about doing this, somebody in your organization is going to say, “WAIT JUST A MINUTE.” “This...
Check it. These are the stories, posts, trends and folks we’ve been following this week. There’s a little bit of everything, from the power of blogs to the Humana Festival, from digital theatre to building the world of a show. And no, there’s not a word about “devised work.” (Well,...
We don’t normally pay attention to 2pm around here–or time at all, really, since it’s always 2am here–but this afternoon, you’d have been able to join in a chat at TheatreFace with our own 2am summit guru, Nick Keenan. Quite simply, if it weren’t for the ongoing conversations with Nick...
Chad Bauman on the Arts Marketing blog first threw a gauntlet to the arts community with a controversial post called “How Marketing Directors Kill New Work.” After some heady response, he acknowledged that his initial post identified problems without proposing solutions. He proffered some GREAT solutions in a follow up...
How do we devise work? And how best can we support that work, these artists? Rather, how can we provide a sustainable model for these companies for funding, presenting, travelling? We’re talking about groups like Universes, the Rude Mechanicals, SITI Company, the Civilians, Taffety Punk and more. Their process is...
Some of us are in D.C. right now for the latest #newplay convening at Arena Stage. You can follow along with us on Twitter, on the New Play Blog and even through streaming video. In the meantime and in-between time, here are the stories, posts, trends and folks we’ve been...
This week is all about the Devised Work convening hosted by the Arena Stage doing their level best to truly be a center for new American play development. They scooped up a raftload of folks not frightened off by DC’s recent uncharacteristic winter weather event and we will be discussing...
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