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What Makes Theater Special?

What makes theater stand out from all of the other art forms? What attracts us to theater to make us directors, playwrights, critics? What makes it different from a band playing a gig in a small venue, an opera at the Met, a painting, a ballet? Do our own personal...

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February 12, 2010

What Are You Best At?

A simple post with perhaps a not so simple answer. But one I’d like you to attempt. If you had to choose one thing, what are you the best at? That is all.

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February 9, 2010
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Define your terms

Isaac Butler at Parabasis asks how we should define “new play”. In the face of how the phrase has been treated in recent years, and rung like a gong again and again in Outrageous Fortune, and with it being the focus of the Arena Stage convenings it seems fair to...

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February 8, 2010
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Follow Friday: 05 Feb 10

One nice tradition on Twitter is the “follow Friday” hashtag, where you pick out a few of the people you follow and suggest them to the rest of your followers. It’s an easy way to meet new people and make new connections. So we’re going to pay homage to our...

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February 5, 2010

What Makes Theater Special?

What Are You Best At?

Define your terms

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