The lit manager at Impact Theatre sent out an email to his colleagues the other day, saying that he’d been asked to speak to some high school theatre students. He wanted our input: what do we have to say to young people about being professionals in theatre? Here’s what I gave him. My name is [...]
There’s an idea that the central element of theatre and the only thing that truly matters is story. That we can dispense with spectacle and still have riveting theatre. Which is true but honestly it’s rare. I went to see The Lily’s Revenge and was so delighted by it–the huge undertaking, the simply lovely story, [...]
You know that shiver in the spine, the moment when your breath is actually taken away, that happens when you hear your own thoughts spoken by someone else? That just happened for me. Look: …I want my designers to speak the same language as directors. I want my electricians and carpenters to be as widely [...]
Prompted by a #2amt conversation in progress on the mighty Twitter machine… I’ve puzzled over this any number of times: at this time, in our society, theatre does not matter to the vast majority of people. I’ve seen figures saying that less than 10% of Americans see theatre. Most of those must go to big [...]
Recently I attended a concert by The New Spectrum Ensemble, a chamber music group whose mission statement includes the following paragraph: …we desire to engage audiences in a way that opens their ears to new sounds and deeper understanding. As a departure from conventional program notes and pre-performance lectures, every concert integrates in-depth explorations of [...]
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