Tag Archive: The Future

Nov
18

What is the power of art?

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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 …

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Jul
26

Live-tweeting Twelfth Night | What You Will

Harry Groener as Feste | Tessa Thomson as Viola |Jeffrey Nordling as Orsino

  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 …

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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 …

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Apr
30

If A Director Falls in the Woods…

I call this my Satine look. Actually, we were doing something crazy with the text Everyman.

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 …

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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 …

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Feb
11

Through

I just found and very much like this quote. It’s exactly how I feel at this moment: “The best of our theater is standing on tiptoe, striving to see over the shoulders of father and mother. The worst is exploiting and wallowing in the self-pity of adolescence and obsessive keyhole sexuality. The way out, as …

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Nov
08

Not Enough G&S

There isn’t enough Gilbert & Sullivan. That is the problem with the world. Join my campaign #NotEnoughG&S on Twitter. It’ll be a hoot.  

May
04

We need more dance breaks – Flash Mob at Ohio University

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