Do you have 17 minutes and 21 seconds to watch a video. Of course you do. Because you really need to see Ben Cameron, former Executive Director of TCG and current Program Director, Arts at the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, talking at the TEDxYYC conference about where we’re all headed,...
Better Monday than never. These are the stories, posts, trends and folks we’ve been following this last week and change. Friday slipped into Saturday, slipped into a 360 storytelling event (more on that later), then slipped into live-blogging the Oscars for Media Elites. Life goes on… So today, a supersized...
Not long ago, I finally went to Great Lake Pizza in Chicago. In 2009, GQ magazine declared that Great Lake makes the best pizza in the United States. Articles about the particulars of the pizza and of the restaurant’s proprietor soon followed. Sharply divided reviews also followed. I loved the pizza I...
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...
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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As artists, we spend an extraordinary amount of time curating the creative communities in which we create work. We constantly seek new creative partners, vet them, develop affinities, establish trust, encourage growth and then build from there. Its a process that takes time, energy and thoughtful conversation before the relationship...
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...