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I grew up in a household that was… healthy. Healthy healthy. Lima (bean) burgers, grinding grain blends for homemade bread, fresh milk from family friends who ran a small farm… my folks idea of retirement was decamping the suburbs and repairing to a 10 acre tract further north in New...
- February 4, 2013
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Terror and Courage, Hope and Art We can’t claim to engage our communities in important conversations if we run away from them One of the plays to generate the most interest at our recent National Showcase of New Plays was Pluto, by the prolific and supremely-talented Steve Yockey. An alum...
- December 22, 2012
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[Ed Note: This post originally ran on Tales of a Squishy Morph] We have two Equity theatre companies in the Boston area in devoted primarily to Shakespeare. Commonwealth Shakespeare Company does a splashy outdoor free production on Boston Common every summer, while Actors Shakespeare Project does full seasons of edgy productions in a variety...
- December 10, 2012
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If you’re wise, even just a little wise, you don’t blurt out the literal first thing that comes to your mind. Your first response may be the truest, it may be right, but unfiltered conversation is seldom advisable no matter how entertaining. You of course should always record your first...
- November 27, 2012
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The first performer I saw live, other than a band, was David Copperfield. He was amazing. As a child I sat there amazed by the magic created in front of me. Fascinated by how he broke the rules of science and did things that I had only before seen in...
- November 20, 2012
The astute reader can find the live tweets from last weekend’s National Arts Marketing Project Conference (#nampc, if you really want to read the several thousand tweets). There are many ideas and quotes that got tweeted, retweeted, modified, agreed with, and favorited. To my ear, however, there was one idea...
- November 16, 2012
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Smile, Broadway! You’re On Instagram! Facebook is so over. At least, that’s what a college-age co-worker told me this summer while discussing arts marketing. The mega social network may be waning with a younger demographic, but a recent Facebook acquisition is growing exponentially. More than 80 million people are sharing...
- October 1, 2012
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One of my favorite things about summer in an arts organization is that you get a couple of precious weeks where, in between the planning and the subscription mailings, there’s a little fallow time where you can sometimes rise above the fray and say, HEY. What are other people doing...
- July 20, 2012
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