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Katie Barry

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Theatre in the multiplex After my first article about theatre streaming on your computer screen, it was probably inevitable that I’d write about theatre streaming on a much, much larger screen. Live theatre is being beamed into movie screens around the world. This isn’t an entirely new idea – Met Opera in HD has been [...]

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The Broadway musical Next to Normal is up for a Webby Award for its use of social media in advertising. Although the play has done several interesting social media events including a YouTube Mash up contest and a song written with help from Twitter users, its Webby nomination comes for its Twitter Performance, a tweeted [...]

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Data as Art

by Katie Barry April 16, 2010 Tech & the Arts
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We are positively swimming in data. Based on my intimate relationship with TCG’s database, I can tell you within a few minutes how many of our books are written by authors whose names start with “k”(34), how many people are registered for the national conference this year (517), and how many member theatres did Othello [...]

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Netflixing Theatre

by Katie Barry March 29, 2010 Tech & the Arts
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A few months ago, I first heard of On The Boards.tv, which bills itself as a Netflix for live performing arts (there’s a New York Times article here). In practice, it’s more like a Netflix on Demand for the performing arts – for a fee, you can watch a taped theatre or dance performance stream [...]

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DIY: How to Create This Blog

by Katie Barry March 22, 2010 Do It Yourself

First, figure out what you want. In our case, TCG’s social media team was looking for a blog to post updates on, especially in between our big monthly publications like the Bulletin and the magazine. We also wanted a place to pull together content from our other blogs, A-ha! and Teresa’s Travel Blog. We wanted [...]

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