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 [...]
The theater can be a shitty business. The community can be wonderful, generous, loving and loyal. It can also be cliquey, opportunistic, back biting and brown-nosing. For every dream that comes true, thousands are dashed. It is almost impossible to actually sustain employment as a performing artist. Broadway show after Broadway show, some filled with [...]
I nodded vigorously in agreement when I read last week's NY times restaurant review by Pete Wells. Well's frustration with the restaurant Rosemary's failure to adopt the simplest of modern technologies - in his case a cell phone - negatively colored his entire dining experience. I too recently had an experience at a theater, that [...]
This post was originally published on the 2AMt blog. It summarizes the history, the reasons behind, metrics, the technical and aesthetic requirements of and the successes of our production of Better Left Unsaid TV, the first of it's kind interactive live streamed play. To skip to the section that most interests you click the appropriate [...]
