February 9th 2007
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Gay,
Politics,
Theater
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The New York Times has an article up comparing the way sex is treated in two of the season's biggest hits, Spring Awakening and Company. What a good idea, I thought. Not quite...
The article an awful conflation of being narrow-mindedly liberal (in the reading of Spring Awakening as outdated because ...
Here's a video promo for SOSE's current production of Iphegenia, which looks quite excellent. I'm going to miss it, being on the other side of the country, but all you LA folks should check it out.
December 7th 2005
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Theater
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They may have announced this earlier, but I just spotted an interesting announcement on the website for the upcoming film version of Dreamgirls:
Effective January 1, 2006, DreamWorks Pictures will pay the licensing fees for all amateur productions of the award-winning musical "Dreamgirls" in the United States and Canada.
Okay, it's amateur ...
October 27th 2005
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Theater
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"Theater is church. Theater is people sitting in the dark, watching people standing in the light talk about what it means to be human."
That's always been one of my favorite quotes about theater, even though I'm not certain at all who said it. Clearly, the reverse is true, as well ...
August 15th 2005
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Theater
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This has been filed under "stuff to blog" for almost a month, but Signal vs. Noise posted a link to an interview with Jared Spool, the founder of User Interface Engineering, on why he likes working with people who have a background in theater. Namely, because we intrinsically understand things ...
My show is still 4 hours away from opening, and yet we've already been talking about some exciting stuff for the next show. We want to do a bunch of online media - podcasts, vidcasts, maybe a commercial - both to promote the show and to (here comes the marketing ...
August 11th 2005
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Theater
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The show opens tomorrow, and I'm thinking a lot about what I'm doing next, and what I want to be doing next. InFocus has a comprehensive interview with Joss Whedon who, toward the bottom, has this to say about TV directing, which I think is easily extensible to theater:
And I ...
August 10th 2005
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Theater
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I haven't mentioned it much here, but I actually have a show opening this Friday, and I thought it would be an excellent time to, you know, talk about it.
The show is called HYPERBOLE: epiphany, and here's an example of why this show is different:
What you won't see:
Yes, ...
June 24th 2005
Tags:
Geek Tech,
Theater
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I just wrote this in an email, and I thought it was too good to keep to myself. I was trying to explain the connection between the work I did in my Imagineering class and experimental uses of technology in theater.
"Disneyland is, after all, the world's best-known performance installation piece."
There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening
That is translated through you into action,
And because there is only one of you in all time,
This expression is unique.
If you block it,
It will never exist through any other medium
And be lost.
The world will never have it.
It is not your business to ...