In today’s Washington Post, Peter Marks imagines a new hope for theatre with a touch of audacity. (Go ahead and read it. We’ll wait.) The short version is, he considers a world in which the White House could support more live theatre–dramatic work in particular–perhaps coordinated by Rocco Landesman and...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...