Not just any bookstore, but specifically this bookstore: Montague Bookmill in Montague, Massachusetts. Seth Godin sums it up well when he stated: This is the bookstore of the future, because it’s not a business trying to maximize growth and ROI. No, it’s a place, an attitude, an approach to an...
So there you are, surfing the Twitter streams with your interface of choice–sounds like something out of William Gibson, doesn’t it?–and up comes a tweet from one of the theatre companies you follow. There’s a link in the tweet. You’re curious, so you click on it. The next thing you...
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...
It’s Friday. These are stories we’ve been following this week. We’re taking the pulse of the #2amt folk–and in some cases, raising those pulses… And here’s a thought. There’s been a lot of talk about transparency and process, we need to introduce audiences to our process, let them see. A...
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,...
Full disclosure. I am by trade a playwright. I may be an artist-in-residence, producer, sound designer, graphic designer, voiceover artist and marketing department for my own theatre company, which, yes, I co-founded. Those are things I do and can do. But I identify myself as a writer. With that in...
Friday. You know what that means. Stories, trends, ideas that we’ve been following. And a follow Friday recommendation. If you’re on Twitter, most of us are, too. Search the #2amt hashtag to find us, follow us and get in the conversation. (They’re not at 2am in the morning, trust me.)...
Concerts. Big concerts—arena size. I often hear and read how potential audiences, if they’re not going to theater, are going to arena-size, celebrity-driven concerts. And if they’re not at a big concert, they’re at home watching American Idol or Lost. None of this is true. Sure, every week tens of millions are streaming Netflix,...