Originally published at Newtek.com I am a theater lover. I have been an actor all my adult life. I went to college for theater, I apprenticed at a major regional theater, I moved to NY because of my love of the theater, I spent my twenties and early thirties doing horrible jobs because they gave [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]