Sitting outside a television studio this morning waiting for the producer to cue our playwright-in-residence for her interview, I crept up on one of my favorite soapboxes. (No, not actor pay.) The playwright was talking about an artist colony where she goes to write plays. I made, but didn’t press, the point that theater producers […]
The season graphics photo shoot went swimmingly well last Friday. No matter how much planning is involved, there’s still a certain amount of suspense, but everybody showed up and most showed up early and the photographer was, as always, excellent to work with. Now the season brochure is starting to come together. It’s going to […]
I’ve been saying for some time now that live theater’s chances of long-term survival will be greatly enhanced by jumping off the art/culture bandwagon and onto the entertainment and nightlife bandwagon, post-haste. Theaters need to stop promising to “challenge” and “enlighten” and start promising a good time. We need to call the concession stand “the […]
