We asked the Boston ICA's chief curator to tell us what "authorship" and "co-authorship" mean to her and her practice. Read more >
Posted by Roy Wilbur | March 27, 2012
"New Paradise Laboratories is re-creating theater for the connected generation. It’s incorporating social networks like Facebook, Skype and Chatroulette into the production and presentation of shows, pulling theater into the virtual space. This innovative experience takes audiences through a rabbit hole on a visually stimulating online adventure." —Joann Pan, Mashable
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Posted by Roy Wilbur | March 9, 2012
"We make art because we believe it makes better human beings. We make art because we believe it makes being human better. So why do we spend so much energy quantifying the economics of what we do, and so little time quantifying the impact?" from Theatre Bay Area's Website
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Posted by Jordan Shue | February 28, 2012
Parker Posey in The House of Yes, a Wendy McLeod play that was adapted for the screen
Last week The Arden Theatre Company announced that the renowned Wendy MacLeod will be the first playwright to take up residence in The Writer's Room, a new program at the Arden that is supported by the Center through PCMI. MacLeod will begin her residency in April 2012 and, after four months at the theatre, will produce a new, original play that will premiere at the Arden in July.
The Catalyst Grant for the Writer's Room was awarded by PCMI because of the unique, behind-the-scenes access it will provide to audiences, who will be able to view firsthand the creative process behind a theater production. The Arden is not using this program simply as a way to bring in a playwright to produce original work; it is also using the residency as a way to build engagement opportunities for audiences that exist outside of viewing the performance of the play.
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Posted by PTI | February 15, 2012
Last year, PTI helped to fund a boot camp led by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel and hosted by Philadelphia Young Playwrights. Vogel’s boot camp exercises are designed to spark the creativity of participants—including, in Philadelphia, students as well as professionals like Wilma Theater Artistic Director Blanka Zizka, 1812 Productions Artistic Director Jen Childs, and People’s Light & Theatre Company Associate Artistic Director Pete Pryor—and to generate spontaneity and ingenuity in playwriting.
Last week a New York Times article covered a playwriting boot camp that Vogel led at the Second Stage Theater, the same venue where her Pulitzer Prize-winning play How I Learned to Drive is having a much-heralded revival. As she did during the PTI-sponsored boot camp in Philadelphia, Vogel pushed the New York participants to think outside of the perceived limitations of playwriting, first challenging them to come up with a scene that would be impossible to stage.
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Posted by Roy Wilbur | January 24, 2012
Traveling magicians Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic and Daryl Hannah are taking their show Elephant Room on the road to the Arena Stage in Washington, DC. These guys are living their roles.
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