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 [...]
There are 77 people in the finalist competition to be a speaker on the People's Stage at this years Web Summit. Almost 25% of us are women. For years women in tech have been concerned about the dearth of leaders in our industry, a circumstance that is reflected in the lack of women speakers at our [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
(crossposted at KathrynJones.tv) A friend of mine, a theater professional with 20 years of professional experience was just offered an audition, via their agent, for a workshop of a new play. The director of this workshop is an Academy Award winning documentary director. The pay for 25 hours of work is $100 dollars. Total. That's [...]
