The Footprints of Change

by August Schulenburg

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Time was, tracking cultural change was a slippery business; but now that the zeitgeist has conveniently taken up residence in the internet,we can trace each footprint on the path. And while it may sometimes feel that our online hubbings lead to little real world bubbings, increasingly what happens on the web manifests in the world. [...]

The Haps: Development

by August Schulenburg

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This post is the second in a regular series highlighting what’s happening in the various aspects of producing theatre. Now up: Development! Throw Up Your Sweaty Night Caps: Crowdsourcing corporate philanthropy is the major story in development right now, and depending on who you read, projects like Pepsi Refresh and Chase Community Giving are either [...]

Gotta Have Faiths

by Rob Weinert-Kendt August 20, 2010
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(Cross-posted on The Wicked Stage) On Sept. 9, 2001, I went to the downtown L.A. offices of Cornerstone Theater Company for a sort of mutual interview/audition process with several theater makers who’d been enlisted for a “festival of faith,” a series of short, limited-run theater works that would be created with various local communities of [...]

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In the Trenches: Actress and Writer Anna Khaja

by Lauren Rosenfield August 19, 2010
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Among the trends worth noting in this year’s NY Fringe Festival, there’s an interesting coincidence: three solo plays by Pakistani women. In an industry where female playwrights and solo artists are hard to come by, and where Pakistani performers and stories are even fewer and far between, the appearance of these women at the festival [...]

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In the Trenches: Actor and Writer Dan Hoyle

by Lauren Rosenfield August 11, 2010
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In 2007, I stumbled upon a one-man show at The Marsh, a small theatre in San Francisco. What I experienced in the next 90 minutes was a feat of theatre: Dan Hoyle, a San Francisco actor and writer, magically transformed himself into a dizzying number of characters all while humorously and accurately telling the story [...]

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The Haps: Marketing

by August Schulenburg August 10, 2010
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This begins what I hope will be a regular series highlighting what’s happening in the various aspects of producing theatre. Up first: Marketing! Marketing on the move: Reaching out to potential audience members through their mobile devices has been gaining traction, primarily through location based social media like Foursquare. Now theatres are taking it one [...]

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