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Teresa’s Weekly Update: Art of Gratitude Edition

by Teresa Eyring November 24, 2011 Weekly Update
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“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.” -Friedrich Nietzsche This Thursday, we’ll be sitting down to turkeys and tofurkeys, and sharing the things we’re thankful for with the people we love. Whether you celebrate or question the history of this holiday, taking time to give thanks remains essential. Here at TCG, [...]

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Teresa’s Weekly Update: Audacious Experimenters Edition

by Teresa Eyring November 21, 2011 Weekly Update
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Happy almost Thanksgiving! Our Fall Forum on Governance, which took place over last weekend, was a tremendous success. We had record attendance, and the Forum community of trustees, theatre leaders and artists had the opportunity to delve deeply into questions about the range of assets that form a theatre’s capital structure. In his kickoff keynote, [...]

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Fall Forum Closing Remarks

by Teresa Eyring November 17, 2011 Fall Forum
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(Photo: Becky Friedenberg. Pictured: Kevin E. Moore, Teresa Eyring, David Henry Hwang) (Editor’s note: Teresa Eyring’s closing remarks were given on Sunday, November 13th at our 2011 Fall Forum on Governance – Capitalizing an Art Form) A day and a half ago we gathered at the Bryant Park Grill to reimagine how we capitalize on [...]

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Teresa’s Weekly Update: The Human Theatre

by Teresa Eyring November 14, 2011 Weekly Update
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When you think theatre, do you think rural community? Joan Schirle did, and her vision helped lead to the founding of Dell’Arte International, just one of the many TCG member theatres working in small towns and rural communities. Hear Joan talk about the power of theatre in a rural setting in our latest I AM [...]

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Teresa’s Weekly Update: The Remarkable Things Edition

by Teresa Eyring November 7, 2011 Weekly Update
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“It should not be remarkable that we stopped talking about arts in education and started talking about arts for education.” I love this quote from Susan Booth, artistic director of the Alliance Theatre, in her essay for TCG’s Education Centerpiece, On Turning 50, Education Survey 2010 (PDF), which we released yesterday. Using our 2010 Education [...]

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Teresa’s Weekly Update: Goose Bumps Edition

by Teresa Eyring October 31, 2011 Uncategorized
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When was the last time a playwright’s words gave you goose bumps? For me, it was last week at the launch of our TCG Playwrights in Conversation: Discussions and Readings series, in partnership with the Jerome L. Green Performance Space. While reading from his trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays, playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney leaped to his [...]

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