Crain’s New York Business magazine has published a poignant profile of New York theatre writer Leonard Jacobs that details how he’s taking his theatre blog from a part-time hobby to a full-time job: “In the six months since he lost his job as national theater editor of trade paper Back Stage, Leonard Jacobs has turned […]
Month: April 2009
Seven things I learned about theatre in the past 10 days
There are many things to know about theatre. Maybe one day I will know them all. For now, I am satisfied with the following seven things I learned about theatre in the last 10 days: 1) The bit in Glengarry Glen Ross where Alec Baldwin comes in to scream obscenities at all the salesmen was […]
10 questions: Marjorie Chan
Photos by Norman Yeung. 1) What the fuck is going on? What the fuck is going on when Miss Universe visits Gitmo? What the fuck is going on when robots are created to mimic child-like behaviours? What is fuck is going on in Kim Jong Il’s head? I ask myself this all the freaking time. […]
Chicago theatre history 2.0
Chicago-based actor, writer, and “budding technomancer” Dan Granata has launched a new theatre blog that promises to dig deep into Chicago’s theatrical history. From the “About” page: “It’s about the stories, on stage and off. It’s about the audiences. It’s about the conversation that’s been going on long before we got here and will continue […]
Binary and theatrical narration
Performance You have read the books. Taken the classes. Scratched the lottery tickets. Soaked your feed. Checked your watch. Tied your shoes. Broken down the boxes. Painted the walls. Changed into something with higher contrast. Photographed the room. Recorded the important bits in your notebook. And committed the rest to memory. The only thing left […]
10 questions: Evan Webber
Photo by Stu Wiber. 1) What the fuck is going on? Small Wooden Shoe has just opened Dedicated to the Revolutions, and I’m thinking quite a lot about that. And there’s a depression and so on. 2) What’s the big idea behind the ongoing Small Wooden Shoe series “Dedicated to the Revolutions”? We’re examining the […]
“Theatre is everywhere – most of it is free”
Vancouver-based theatre blogger and playwright Simon Ogden (The Blogtender) gets the Umbrella Talk interview treatment over at MK Piatkowski’s One Big Umbrella blog. A sample: “I have a dream about Black Box theatres dotting our communities like convenience stores (convenience theatres?), each of them telling their own stories. As theatre grows again into a common […]
What can theatre learn from the Harvard Business blogs?
Is it wrong for theatre artists to love the Harvard Business blogs? You decide. Check out a few recent posts: The art of the self-imposed deadline How to write an elevator pitch Seven communication mistakes managers make From that last post: “A start-up company’s controller watched the CFO lie to members of other departments and […]