Here’s this week’s installment of the 2amt director-to-director interview series. Join our Twitter conversation on directing by following the hashtag #2amdir. Meet Kevin Houle Hometown: Sioux Falls, SD Current town: Saint Paul, MN Freelance director. Frequently works with Lakeshore Players Theatre (http://www.lakeshoreplayers.com/)....
2AMt is a wonderful community of artists from all over the theatre spectrum, but we think it’s high time to give designers a little extra love–so we’re going to check out the big talent and bigger brains of some special designers in a series of designer spotlight posts. This time...
Ask not what your country can do for the arts, ask what the arts can do for the country. — Kevin Spacey The 24th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public Policy April 4, 2011, 6:30 p.m. John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts At exactly the same...
So you’re at the Humana Festival of New American Plays and you’ve got a few minutes. You’ve seen the art, you’ve looked at the gifts, you’ve had a beer. Maybe you’re in the mood to play a game. Maybe you’re looking for something to engage audiences at your own theatre...
Last weekend, I saw approximately half of the shows at the Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville. I’m heading back this weekend for the rest, but I wanted to write about the themes and connections between those first three shows. I saw this combination by...
It’s time for the next installment in the new 2AMt director-to-director interview series. If you aren’t already doing so, you can also join in Twitter conversation specific to directing by following the hashtag #2amdir. Meet Dominic D’Andrea. Hometown: Severna Park, MD; Current City: New York City My company: The One-Minute...
On the last day of the new play convening held at Arena Stage this past January, participants (and livestream satellite observers) were asked to come up with goals for the coming year. What could we do to further the state of new play development in our town/city/shire? One of my...
This past week I began a new director-to-director interview series on 2AMt. Here is the first profile (Meet Michael Leeds), just in case you missed it. The objective of this series is twofold: (1) to create more dialogue among directors (2) to provide more insight into current directing practices. Profiles...
It is a discouraging time to be a liberal in the United States. About every other day, I’m calling my representatives to ask them to stand up for the programming that I feel is vital to our quality of life — the National Endowment for the Arts, public broadcasting, women’s...
No doubt you’ve heard other variations of this question. What makes a play an XXX play? You fill in the “XXX.” But I was asked specifically, “What makes a play a Latino play?” Who asked? It was a playwriting student. Her class on Latino theatre had just finished reading my...