4/23/2012 5:00pm UPDATE California Advocates for the Arts announces the bill has been pulled. 11:47pm UPDATE Arts For LA posted a link with more info & emails 5:01pm UPDATE from California Advocates for the Arts: Your Voice is Being Heard! Brad Erickson, President of CAA, has spoken to Aaron Moreno on Assemblymember Gatto’s staff and …
Tag Archive: LAThtr
Jan
27
Furious and Racist: upcoming blogs
I had the pleasure to see two new plays in Los Angeles theaters this week: Furious Theatre Company’s premiere of Matt Pelfrey’s: NOgoodDEED ” A gritty and savagely humorous action adventure that is part theater and part graphic novel” It was the description that grabbed me, and my write-up will be published on Corey Blake‘s …
Nov
18
What is the power of art?
This is an amended email I sent earlier to some friends and artists I know. Please comment below with your input! The last few weeks gave me quite a lot to consider, including the role or importance of art within a much larger world picture. Most of this thought stems from the Occupy movement and …
Nov
17
Occupy LA March on Nov 17th
I went downtown to do some guerrilla outreach for a client, and hopped off the bus and onto a wall at the Pershing Square Metro Station. The Occupy LA March approached, and although I didn’t get them going right past me, I did get some nice shots of people’s reactions as well as the march …
Oct
30
Follow up on past Outreach Client
I received this email while on vacation and am just thrilled at the amazing work Santa Monica Rep’s done in just a year. Of course, the trio of terrific-ness Jen Bloom, Eric Bloom & Sarah Gurfield have worked much longer than one year to clarify their intent and goals. It worked, as you can see …
Oct
24
Do Something For a Change
I bought a bumper sticker back in 2004 and loved it: Do Something For a Change Unfortunately the car that hosted it is gone, but the phrase still sticks with me. I began obsessing over outreach and consulting for nonprofits when I saw an incredible, invisible gap: the disconnect between nonprofits or civics leaders and …
Jul
26
Live-tweeting Twelfth Night | What You Will
After reading the ClassicsFest Tuesday Night Tweeting for The Doctor’s Dilemma, I got very excited to try it the following week at Twelfth Night and a new play, The Insidious Impact of Anton. I detailed a bit of the experience last week, but want to follow up in more detail on a question I …
Jul
25
Closing a Chapter | VFC
Many many thanks for your continuing support! We thank Theatre Asylum, Art|Works Theatre & Studios & Coeurage Theatre Company at Actors Circle Theater for their Best of the Hollywood Fringe Festival offer. With an awareness & charity project, finances and schedules are always an important factor to continue increasing the audience, and I did not …
Jul
23
Live-tweeting General Guidelines
I’m taking some time thinking through my responses to the experience of live-tweeting two shows last week, mostly because I’m receiving such interesting reactions from people. I quickly compiled a short list of general guidelines for live-tweeting, to remember for next time! Add your ideas in the comments. I will revise the Guidelines with suggestions …
Jul
22
4 Theaters in Atwater Village
Atwater Village a New Arts Destination This is a repost of a Bitter Lemons article I wrote on Dec 19, 2010. More on the Atwater Village Arts Community can be found here. Atwater Village “between the river and the tracks” It’s shaped like a banana and borders the 5 freeway. Neighboring areas include Elysian Valley, …
Jul
13
Live-tweeting theatre from audience perspective
I’ve been invited to live-tweet upcoming performances of ClassicsFest at The Antaeus Company, as well as a preview of The Insidious Impact of Anton presented by Absolute Theatre Company. I’m sure the thought of this just makes half of you cringe, as does the idea of anything with a power button staying ‘on’ inside a …
May
23
The Working Director | Che’Rae Adams
Che’Rae Adams is a good friend, and amazing collaborator as Director & Dramaturg. Remounting Karen Anzoategui’s solo show SER at the Hollywood Fringe Festival interests me and so I invited her to be profiled as a Working Director. You can also read about my personal experience in her workshop at the LA Writer’s Center here, …
May
17
The Working Director | Jacob Smith
I was interested in interviewing Jacob because of the high praise he received from a colleague Gregory Crafts , while in rehearsals and performance at Theatre Unleashed . This theater company and director caught my attention in large part because they always donate a portion of their ticket income to a related cause, much like …
May
17
Stepping Away With THE CAR PLAYS
I had the privilege of being invited to submit for Moving Arts‘ next series of CAR PLAYS, which is part of the RADAR LA International Festival at CalArts REDCAT this June. Get all that? I’ll explain below. The very cool part, though, is that Moving Arts asked me, I submitted a total of three plays, …
Apr
30
If A Director Falls in the Woods…
Directing is a solitary vocation. There’s a great story Anne Bogart tells in an American Theater Wing podcast. She arrived at an event for Directors and when asked why she was late, Bogart replied she had been in rehearsal. All the Directors stopped and immediately went to take care of her. “Oh, you’ve been in …
Apr
03
The Ursula Complex
I hereby declare a definition. It may, in fact, qualify as a decree. You know that icky feeling, the deep down in your gut stomach dry heaves as you grasp the pages hot off the Kinko’s* copiers, in that empty and rawest of moments before you hand your pages over for the first read. You …
Mar
07
Vote For The Arts on Tuesday March 8th
This election matters. You can vote for the arts, arts education, and direct community involvement, or you can vote for LA to continue on her current path. If you don’t feel you know enough to understand the ballots, check out Stephen Box, City Council candidate for District 4. If you don’t know if you live …
Feb
23
Belarus Free Theatre
I recently made the acquaintance of Bari Hochwald through LAFPI and the LAThtr Meetups. She is a soul sister, creatively and personally, and her work through The Global Theatre Project inspires me every day. Their presentation this Friday of “Being Harold Pinter” supports the Belarus Free Theatre, and Bari took a few moments out of …
Feb
17
Music For Autism Video – Story of Fun
People pay me to tweet. It’s true, real and I termed it Online Outreach. The best part of these jobs are the clients I attract. I get to promote awesome videos like this short excerpt from the Music For Autism interactive concert. If Mozart were always like this, and LA Theatre in any way this …
Feb
04
Broadway Arts Center Public Planning Workshop
I just received this email through the Atwater Village Neighborhood Council email list. Who knows about this? Comment below to share with the LA Theatre community. Dear Friends, We hope you can make it to this important planning workshop THIS MONDAY EVENING at the beautiful historic Los Angeles Theatre on Broadway! Bringing Back Broadway invites …
