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 festival sited by the Wall Street Journal as "The Festival You Can Watch on Your Couch" has come and gone - but you can still catch what you missed.... On February 19th, 2013, VirtualArtsTV launched the WiredArts Fest, the first live-streamed festival for digital theater, dance and music. Marking the dawn of a new, [...]
Could I come up with a nerdier title for a performing arts company’s blog post? Probably not, but as it turns out, streaming technology is one of the most exciting things that have happened to the arts in decades. It is changing the way americans choose to experience the arts, exposing more people to the [...]
VirtualArtsTV presents the WiredArts Fest an interactive, online festival tailored to a 21st Century audience. VirtualArtsTV is proud to announce the WiredArts Fest, the first of its kind, live-streamed performing arts festival. Think of a Fringe Festival, but online, where the audience is global, seating is unlimited and viewers can participate in live chat discussions, [...]
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 [...]
This past weekend I was (not surprisingly) reassured watching a piece on one of my favorite Sunday morning TV programs. By offering explanation I’ll also give more than due credit. CBS Sunday Morning this past weekend had a fantastic feature on the 50th anniversary of The Public Theater’s annual season of “Shakespeare in the [...]
VirtualArtsTV founders Kathryn Velvel Jones, David B. Cohen, Joey Brenneman, and Erin Bigelow are proud to announce VirtualArts.tv’s top 5 status in CrowdFunder’s Los Angeles competition. VirtualArtsTV reconceives the performing arts by melding the in-seat experience with on-line through live streaming media and interactive commentary creating an authentic shared theatrical moment. With the rise [...]
(Of course we had to give an ode to William Shakespeare. We wouldn’t be a performing arts company otherwise.) In our last post we had referenced “target audiences”. Our belief is that if you actually listen to your audiences, they will lead you. The consumer is, and always has been, in charge. I am amazed [...]
As I’m sure many people are, we have been very much looking forward to this year’s Digital Content NewFront conference. This first press piece, in yesterday’s AdAge.com, has a good deal of justification for producing original web video content. We’ve certainly prescribed to this plan for some time. Namely: ”…episodes of shows made for [...]
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 [...]
