Topic: Theatrical Plays

Joe DiPietro

During the 2002 - 2003 theater season at Venice Theater, Robert "Bob" DeCecco played the lead role in a production of Joe DiPietro’s Over the River and Through the Woods at Venice Little Theatre. Bob was excited to be able to ...READ»

Clever Marketing Pushes a Musical to the Big Time

That the New York indie theater scene is drawing forced breaths and the gap between Broadway and off is more pronounced than ever is no news to arts-inclined locals. Sure, performers and writers are still everywhere, but Manhattan's ...READ»

Googlewhacked!

When Mike Daisey had a successful run with "21 Dog Years," his comical one-man Off-Broadway show about his stint as a low-level employee at Amazon.com, we should have known it wouldn't be long before other famous Internet companies ...READ»

Drama

Delphi's Upper School Drama Department produces two major annual productions (one for Thanksgiving and one for Parents Weekend), as well as several other performances produced throughout the school year. Student involvement goes well beyond acting. Student participation includes set design, choreography, music composition, assistant directing, and even playwriting.READ»

A Cast of Leaders

Broadway is the classroom, leadership is the script: 14 Duke students tackle the Great White Way to learn the role of their lives.READ»

Writers Take the Spotlight at Emerging Artists Theatre

For an aspiring playwright in New York, the odds of turning one's work into a stage production can feel as daunting, even foolish, as pinning an 'American Idol' audition number onto one's shirt. For those whose aspirations surpass ...READ»

More of Chicago’s Luminaries On What Makes the City Hot

"Hell yeah! Absolutely. I couldn't do what I'm doing if I lived in any other city. We're more out to make work together as opposed to leave one another in our dust." -- Megan Stielstra, 2nd Story director of story ...READ»

More of Chicago’s Luminaries On What Makes the City Hot

More of Chicago’s top business executives and creatives weigh in on why this city is fast.READ»

Happy New Year

One hundred and twenty seven years ago this week, Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, upon emigrating to the U.S., docked in New York City, whereupon he was asked by a customs agent if he had anything to declare. "Nothing but my genius," ...READ»

How to Dump the ‘Starving Artiste’ Mentality—and Why

Well, the why is easy: You won’t make any money and will be stuck in a dead-end day job forever while you toil away for your art in obscurity.Harsh? Yes. True? Hell, yes.See, we creatives—writers, painters, illustrators, actors, ...READ»

Set Goals. Achieve Them. Repeat. Succeed

Outstanding performance is one of the keys to personal and professional success that I discuss in Straight Talk for Success.  If you want to become an outstanding performer, you need to do three things.  1) Stay on top of your ...READ»

Leading Ideas: Play More

"We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and essayist A friend of mine is a corporate attorney who is married with 3 kids. About two years ...READ»

Oregon Shakespeare Festival

On Saturday morning, ten energetic Upper School students met in the school dining room as the sun was rising to have a quick breakfast and then head south to enjoy the weekend in Ashland, Oregon. They were off to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival to see two stage plays plus receive a backstage tour.READ»

New York's annual Fringe Festival Turns the Spotlight on Independent Theater

Off-Off Broadway is the perpetual underdog of New York's arts scene, but to a non-theater aficionado, exploring the wide-spanning thespian scene beyond Broadway can easily feel intimidating--like sitting away from the hipster kids' ...READ»

Theater of the Research

Live theater, and perhaps even Broadway, predates the advent of television, but people staging Broadway productions are just now beginning to adopt some of the market research and development tools used by newer-media marketeers -- ...READ»

Leading Ideas: The Problem with Communication

"The problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred." -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish playwright and essayist Last week I visited with a client who was fuming about mistake a staff member had made. She ...READ»

Leading Ideas: Block Your Escape Routes

"The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom." -- ...READ»

A Close Encounter of the Enlightened Kind

Aspen Institute's Executive Seminar finds modern wisdom in classic works.READ»

The Leader, The Director

            Leaders in business have much to learn from leaders in the performing arts. Susan Booth, Artistic Director of the Alliance Theatre, recipient of the Tony Award for Best Regional Theatre in 2007 ...READ»

The Business of Broadway

How fresh ideas from finance, film, and TV are creating new opportunities for the theaterREAD»

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Twitter Works--Just Ask Broadway

A Twitter adaptation of a Broadway musical turned followers into audience members.READ»

'Title of Show' Opens on Broadway

Almost three months ago I interviewed writer-singer-actor Jeff Bowen, whose musical about the making of a musical, Title of Show, was picked up for a Broadway run (see my post here.). Much of his and co-writer Hunter Bell's success, ...READ»

Peter Lerman's Great Expectations

The young musical playwright prepares for his debut--nine years from now!--and the pressure of being the next Stephen Sondheim.READ»

The Secret Power of Space

If you're a Set Designer at heart, you probably have people tell you that office space doesn't really matter. "People can work anywhere," they'll tell you. "Just give them a desk and a comfortable chair." Those skeptics a haven't ...READ»