Ramsey sends the cavalry charging directly at Jon Snow. Jon Snow struggles to regain his footing. He stands. He sees the onslaught of death charging towards him. The camera pushes in tight from below, Jon Snow looks down, he nods. He looks up. We can see the whites of his eyes and we know that he has changed. [...]
I will never forget the first time I got to watch Mercedes Ruehl rehearse Antony and Cleopatra. She was a relentless, non-stop creative engine - and an amazing lesson for a young actor. So What can we learn when we adapt the open rehearsal experience to an interactive, digital audience?
...a major contribution to the world both in terms of its content, and its theatrical innovation. Not to be missed - William Y on Google+ On May 11th audiences in Kigali, Rwanda, Reykjavik Iceland and New York City joined individual viewers all over the world to experience a live-streamed reading of Jay O. Sanders play, [...]
The proverbial hills are alive…with the sound of audience! On the heels of the recent hand wringing over a continued decline in theater audiences, 18.5 million people tuned into to see The Sound of Music Live. 18.5 million! That's 50% more people than bought a ticket to a broadway show in all of the 2011/2012 [...]
A month ago I attended Leadership Nouveau, a conference sponsored by HEC focused on the challenges of arts management in the 21st Century. Held at The MOMA, it was a day filled with arts leaders who are breaking new ground, building new audiences and paving a vibrant future for the arts , one that belies [...]
This past August VOTV founder Kathryn Jones was a speaker at the 140 Characters Conference in Kingston, NY. Kathryn spoke about how social media and live-streaming have the capacity to reinvent all of the performing arts, from theater to music to dance - enabling even small companies to reach audiences and ignite passionate conversations about [...]
So said Virginia Heffernan, digital media critic of the New York Times when reviewing my live streamed online video series "35". It was a rough night- we had sound problems, we had camera problems- in fact we shot all 10 episodes on a budget of less than $6000- and yet Virginia Heffernan responded to what [...]
