How Theatre Failed America Roundtables

These look exciting:

http://www.mikedaisey.com/2008/05/as-part-of-reopening-of-how-theater.sht

DOWNTOWN, MIDTOWN, EVERYTOWN
Sun May 18th:
Robert Brustein (founder of Yale Repertory Theatre and American
Repertory Theatre)
Jonathan West (Milwaukee-based actor and blogger)
Emily Ackerman (actor and ensemble member of The Civilians)
Leonard Jacobs (national editor for Back Stage)
Sheila Callaghan (playwright, Dead City)

DO-IT-YOURSELF OR BUST
Sat May 24th:
Greg Kotis (playwright, Urinetown)
Jason Eagan (Artistic Director, Ars Nova)
Erez Ziv (Managing Director, Horse Trade Theater)
John Clancy (founder of the New York International Fringe Festival)
Scott Shepherd (The Wooster Group)
Lisa Kron (actor, solo performer and playwright, Well)

YOU ARE WHAT YOU WATCH
Sun June 1st:
Jim Nicola (Artistic Director for New York Theatre Workshop)
Mark Russell (founder of PS122 and the Under The Radar Festival)
Steve Bodow (head writer of the Daily Show and Elevator Repair Service member)
Morgan Jenness (literary agent, former literary manager of the Public Theater)
David Cote (theatre editor for Time Out New York)
Isaac Butler (Freelance director and theatre blogger)

FOR PROFIT, NON-PROFIT, NO PROFIT
Sun June 8th:
James Bundy (dean, Yale School of Drama; Artistic Director, Yale
Repertory Theatre)
Dan Fields (Disney Imagineer and freelance director)
Stephanie Weisman (founder and director of The Marsh in San Francisco)
Dave Greenham (executive director, The Theatre at Monmouth)
Tommy Thompson (veteran Broadway production stage manager)
Diane Ragsdale (Mellon Foundation)

ASSEMBLING ENSEMBLES
Sun June 15th:
John Collins (Artistic Director of Elevator Repair Service, The Sound
and the Fury)
Tanya Selvararnam (collaborator with Jay Scheib and The Builder's Association)
Colleen Werthmann (actor and Elevator Repair Service ensemble member)
Heidi Schreck (collaborator with 2-Headed Calf, Seattle's Printer's Devil)
Scott Walters (former Artistic Director of Illinois Shakespeare
Festival and blogger)
Hal Brooks (freelance director, Thom Paine and No Child…)

THEATER IN 2033
Sun June 22nd:
Rocco Landesman (Tony-award winning producer, Angels in America, The Producers)
Gregory Mosher (Tony-award winning director, former head of Lincoln Center)
Oskar Eustis (Artistic Director of the Public Theater)
Richard Nelson (playwright, Conversations in Tusculum)
Paige Evans (director, Lincoln Center's new LCT3 program)
Garrett Eisler (Village Voice theater critic and blogger)

It's not much, but

Anyone want my job?

jobs.columbia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=110795

have you seen this blog? from LA

http://bitter-lemons.com/

Michael Arthur's show tonight at the fall cafe in C Gardens

Do you know his art? You should.

http://inklines.blogspot.com/2008/05/show.html

what is causing my rash that i've had since November

Check out this handy chart

update on Handey flag

someone creates it here:

http://zehnkatzen.blogspot.com/2008/05/tehfunnay-jack-handeys-flag.html

RRT Best of Show this weekend

http://parabasis.typepad.com/blog/2008/05/rapid-responses.html

BEST OF SHOW
Friday at 7PM
Bowery Poetry Club (Bowery and 1st)
$10 at the door.

Innocent beware--DNA collections

http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/feds-to-collect.html

h/t daisey

http://www.mikedaisey.com/

symbols

Jack Handey's flag

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2008/05/19/080519sh_shouts_handey

So K's mother got us these forks and knives and things because we're getting married and in our new married life, we will have beautiful utensils. We just started using them and let me tell you I feel more like an adult than ever before. We are fancy now. We have class. We have shiny silverware. People could come over and have multi course dinners and eat with this silverware. Of course they would still have to drink out of a Porky Pig glass but that's another story.

Miss any of the Rapid Response Shows?

They're all right here:

http://rapidresponseteam.org/archives.html

Listen to them now

or later.

Collect them all.

Trade them with friends.

Random 10 for Monday

Kahlua Killers--Join the League
Egg--Not for Duncan
Sicily--Open Ham Sandwich on Rye
Josh Hill--Don't Rain (On My Saturday)
Formica Dogs--My Kitchen (And Your Bathroom)
String for Pepe--Ball of Wax
Sally's Underwater Goggles--Foam
Sad Fingers--Long Dark Hallway
Chimney Vibrations--Runk
Fell Over--Druids

I'm going to see this

Are you?

http://www.theatermania.com/content/show.cfm/show/142889

Why is it

so much fun to read about Hal Brooks in rehearsal?

http://halbrooks.blogspot.com/2008/05/pooped.html

what's going on with me

I'm allergic to dust mites apparently.

Had a couple TV meetings yesterday.

I'm still overworked and poor.

war on greed

http://warongreed.org/?utm_source=rgemail

Clinton behind calls to discourage black voters?

http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/04/clinton_nixon_nixon_clinton.cfm

h/t daisey

http://www.mikedaisey.com/

Random 10 for Tuesday

Cough Syrup Collage--Rainbow City
Netflix Surprise--Bear Trap
Mitzy in the Shower--I've Been Lost
Cotton Candy Full of Worms--Sold
Ruination--All in the Wrist
Sad Fingers--Clowns Undercover
Misplaced Hammer--Untitled #337
Runk--Baby Cakes
Evisceration--Dust in the Attic
Dancing Pants--Dancing Pants

Joshua Kors article

Have you seen this?

"Town is not alone. A six-month investigation has uncovered multiple cases in which soldiers wounded in Iraq are suspiciously diagnosed as having a personality disorder, then prevented from collecting benefits. The conditions of their discharge have infuriated many in the military community, including the injured soldiers and their families, veterans' rights groups, even military officials required to process these dismissals."

"They say the military is purposely misdiagnosing soldiers like Town and that it's doing so for one reason: to cheat them out of a lifetime of disability and medical benefits, thereby saving billions in expenses."

what happened to congestion pricing

http://noimpactman.typepad.com/blog/2008/04/weve-changed-yo.html