Confusing Art with Money With a couple of decades in the indie theatre trenches behind me, I have some complicated feelings around money and art. I believe in paying artists. I think it’s important to give value in a monetary form to people who create. I fight hard to make…

Do People Really Have an Aversion to Creativity? April 24, 2022, 11:36 pm Filed under: art, Creative Process, Imagination | Tags: aversion, Creative Process, creativity, innovation, Middle Managers, New York Times, novelty, science, the Arts, values, vomit The science in it seems sketchy and it’s not clear which people this…

Three Hundred Episodes. Horn Blowin Time! As I surely have said before, I am not fond of tooting my own horn but only a handful of others will toot their horns for me so if my horn needs tooting, the task generally falls to me. I have to seek out…

Crowdfunding the Arts Doesn’t Work April 15, 2022, 10:30 pm Filed under: American, art, art institutions, business, community, economics, Non-Profit, theatre | Tags: Charity Blossom, crowdfunding, donations, fundraising, grants, IndieGoGo, Josh Battle, Kickstarter, Ko-fi, Non-Profit, potato salad, theatre company My theatre company is over twenty years old. …

Should I Try to Work with Egotistical D-bags? * Note — I’m going to use the word douchebag a lot in this post. Get ready. But also — for context — I used to be really wary about the word douchebag. I thought the word might be connected to some…

In Praise of the Monologue March 31, 2022, 11:57 am Filed under: Acting, education, theatre | Tags: Acting, actor, actor training, monologues, theatre, theatre education, theatre training Despite having written and created an audio drama podcast made up entirely of monologues, before now, I’d have told you I hated monologues…

Predicting the Grief Weather A few days after my brother was killed, I was scheduled to give a Feldenkrais lesson to a new client. We’d been planning it for months and I hadn’t had work in ages so it seemed reasonable to keep the appointment. I figured it would be…

The Theatre Theater Problem and the Intermission If it’s not entirely obvious, I’m a THEATRE person. I am not a THEATER person, not really. This is partly a silly distinction of spelling and partly a really serious long-standing American problem. And before I go any further with this, let me…

The Macintosh in Tick, Tick…Boom! March 3, 2022, 9:32 pm Filed under: art, Creative Process, economics, movies, music, musicals, theatre, writing | Tags: 90s, computer nerds, computers, Jonathan Larson, Lin Manuel Miranda, Mac Classic, Macintosh, Macintosh Plus, movie, Musical Theatre, Musical Theatre Nerds, production design, rent, set design, struggling…