Performance Art. Spoken Word. Don’t stop reading yet. David Sedaris comes to my town fairly often, once or twice a year. He can fill up a 4,000-seat theater, or quickly sell out an eight-night run at a smaller one. Last year, the Associating Writing Programs conference, a gathering of folks affiliated...
- July 28, 2010
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The Washington, DC area loves Shakespeare. I’m not sure I can say why, exactly – perhaps he’s the most bi-partisan playwright – but the facts are indisputable. Year after year, the Shakespeare Theatre Company, the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, the Folger Theatre, and the Washington Shakespeare Company, among others, put the...
- July 27, 2010
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It’s said that if a butterfly flaps its wings in Illinois, it can cause a rainstorm in Brazil. I’m not sure how meteorologically sound that is, but it certainly holds true in the world of social media. In today’s podcast, Dave Charest (@DaveCharest) talks with Amy Wratchford (@AmyWratchford), managing director...
- July 17, 2010
It should be clear that we at 2amt like Twitter just fine. But where do you draw the line? After this story about how some theatres in Australia are using Twitter during performances, an idea that some theatres are trying in the U.S., the question started flying around the #2amt...
- July 14, 2010
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I’m currently working my way through the fantastic book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everybody, and boy does it ever make me think of our very own #2amt efforts. Not only does it make me consider #2amt with...
- July 9, 2010
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By popular demand, it’s the debut of the first 2amt podcast. This time out, Jax Steager visits the Hollywood Fringe Festival and interviews Ben Hill, producing director of the Hollywood Fringe, with snippets of interviews with Alexa Hanrahan, support director, and Nick Hill, the Fringe Central manager. If you’d like...
- July 8, 2010
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Some more pull quotes, this time a quick conversation from Twitter between playwright Kristoffer Diaz and Tony Adams, artistic director of Halcyon Theatre in Chicago, maybe spinning off a little from comments on yesterday’s post about scripts and AD’s…
- July 1, 2010