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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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TCG’s National Conference in Chicago last week was a record-breaker, with upwards of 900 attendees crowding more than 50 breakout sessions, 17 affinity groups, four plenaries and 16 “manifestos.” One of America’s most vibrant theatre cities proved an ideal host, not only for its theatre-friendliness—epitomized by Mayor Daley’s Saturday morning speech on the value of [...]

Twitter Me This, Twitter Me That: Ovation’s Favorite #BWayPlot Entries

by Ovation TV June 24, 2010 Events
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In celebration of Music of the Night, Ovation’s tribute to all things Broadway, we called upon our Twitter followers to join us for the first ever #Bwayplot Twitter contest! Although the request seemed easy — summarize the plot of any Broadway production in 140 characters or less – we realized how daunting the task at [...]

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A Broader Way: TCG Hooks-Up with BroadwayWorld.com

by August Schulenburg June 9, 2010 Tech & the Arts
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The metabolism of news has been increasing rapidly for some time. Now news is news for only a few seconds: everything after is just retweets and trackbacks. No one in the theatre world understands this better than BroadwayWorld’s founder and editor-in-chief, Robert Diamond. This thriving internet hub of theatre news covers 100 US cities, 30 [...]

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The Pricing of Art

by August Schulenburg June 7, 2010 Tech & the Arts
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“When I was young I used to think that money was the most important thing in life. Now that I am old, I know it is.” Oscar Wilde How much should a ticket cost? This seemingly simple question ignited the blogosphere through Trisha Mead’s 2AMT post on Dynamic Pricing. After being introduced to this concept [...]

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Theatre Coming to a Movie Theater Near You (?)

by Katie Barry May 21, 2010 Events
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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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