(Critical) Power to the People

by Simone Scully November 16, 2011 Critics & Reviews
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(Photo: Laura Roudabush) iCritic™, an initiative, developed as part of ‘Barrington Stage 2.0’, got its genesis from TCG’s New Generations Program, funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation/The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2010. Now over a year later, it is time find out how iCritic is progressing. Laura Roudabush, Director of Marketing for Barrington [...]

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Call and Response: Joan Schirle

by Stacy Klein November 15, 2011 I AM THEATRE
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 ’The whole thing fell apart. It exploded. It wasn’t my fault”.  - Joan Schirle, I AM THEATRE Similar to the Big Bang, which ostensibly was responsible for the creation of our world, most important discoveries or events are created out of a loss, or an explosion, or a shock. Change is difficult, and seems to become much [...]

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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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2011 Education Centerpiece (back to dreaming big)

by Laurie Baskin November 10, 2011 Education

“But the overwhelming fact—the thing that just colors me happy—is that education directors, theatre artists involved in arts learning and artistic directors convened and discussed and argued and dreamed and spoke about education as a central part of what we do. That it was just business as usual, nothing special. Education was…an entity…accepted…a fact of [...]

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Reasons to be Critical

by Diep Tran November 9, 2011 American Theatre magazine
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For a full ill-advised minute (actually, more like ten months), I had considered being a theatre critic. And then, I realize two things: I really disliked reading my own opinions and criticism was a hard and mostly thankless job. When you give a theatre artist a good review, they admire you and your writing and [...]

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Interview: David Henry Hwang

by Dafina McMillan November 8, 2011 Fall Forum
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(Editor’s Note: David Henry Hwang will be the Friday Night Keynote Speaker at our 2011 Fall Forum on Governance: Capitalizing an Art Form. He was kind enough to sit down with Dafina McMillan and answer some Forum – and Chinglish – inspired questions). 1. You are one of the few playwrights moving fluidly between the [...]

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