How to start a theater company

An article about a young theater company I was recently introduced to.

http://westend.broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=23932

plug for blue coyote

YOU ARE INVITED!!!
to Blue Coyote Theater Group's
AFTERGLOW PARTY

Sunday, March 2nd, 7pm

@Access Theater
380 Broadway, 4th Floor
(Broadway and White St.)

Join us on the Happy Endings set to celebrate our latest hit and our upcoming new work!

Hors d'ouvres by celebrated chef Ed Cotton and pastry chef Mina Pizarro of Veritas, prepared by the staff
Open bar
Live entertainment
prizes and raffles

ALL FOR ONLY $25!

Top shelf hooch and delicious food and surprise performances and tons of your friends dancing on stripper cubes and backstage antics and spinning lights and giveaways and you KNOW it always ends with someone kissin' on someone and sheepish phone calls the next day... All This Action for $25.00 are you KIDDING ME?!!

Guide to Hiring Women, 1943

http://home.tiac.net/~cri_d/cri/2000/women1943.html

snopes says it's real

http://www.snopes.com/language/document/hiringwomen.asp

nice post from Joshua on character and writing and emotional content

http://writerjoshuajames.com/dailydojo/?p=665

I read the Golden Compass and the two books that follow and I have to say I was blown away. I've been struggling with trying to figure out how to write about god in a non-annoying way while not really knowing what I actually think about god including whether or not he exists. And Pullman just does it. He manages to write about the Christian god many of us know while at the same time taking us into a different world and letting different facets of spirituality and our selves and the good and bad things surrounding religion while telling a highly engaging adventure story.

The greatest thing about it however, is the love story that really only develops in the last book. I don't want to say too much about it because I don't want to give it away and I'm hoping you'll read it. As a lover of love stories, I have to say, this is one of the best I've seen and the way he connects god and love and sin at the end is simply elegant. But these are books that broke my heart and I highly recommend them.

coming soon

March 10 A reading in LA of Herbie A reading in NYC of Waldo

March 26-29 F4F at a college in Michigan

April 17-27 F4F at a college in ND

April 18-27 Waldo in a theater in Wisconsin

updates

I discovered saturday I am very allergic to aspirin which means I am also probably allergic to all these things. If you recall the doctor already told me I'm allergic to all these things: clams, corn, soybeans, wheat, peanuts, walnuts, scallops, shrimp, codfish, eggwhites, and milk. I already knew I was allergic to chicken and turkey. So what am I eating? good question. I'll have to go back to the allergist soon and it also might be helpful to find a dietician. I finished the first act of my tv spec and hope to finish it this weekend.

Travis in TX on Regional Theatre

http://frawst.blogspot.com/2008/02/meanwhile-to-left-of-revolution.html

then, now, and Brooke Berman

She continued: "You used to be able to work a 20-hour week, pay the
rent on your tiny studio, and still write your plays. That's no longer
possible."

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/garden/21berman.html?_r=2&ref=theater&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

how to be a lady

http://flailinggirl.blogspot.com/2008/02/lady-luck.html

twenty bucks

affordable tickets til 2011 at Signature (nyc)

h/t daisey

http://www.mikedaisey.com/

http://www.nysun.com/article/56560

more daisey How theater failed

http://www.mikedaisey.com/2008/02/good-article-over-here-about-my-essay.sht

failing america

response to daisey's article

http://rwinsome.blogspot.com/2008/02/theatre-failing-america.html

sunday

WHAT: The Rapid Response Team's Oscar Nite Spectacular! WHERE: The Bowery Poetry Club (308 Bowery just north of 1st st.) WHEN: Sunday, February 24th, 8PM HOW MUCH: $10.00 at the door STORIES WE'RE LOOKING INTO THIS WEEK INCLUDE: Odd ingredients in prescription drugs***Satellites Crashing to Earth***The end of Bush and Cheney's friendship*** Evolution in Public Schools*** The Return of Lost*** Mass Weddings in Mexico*** Broken Violins *** WNYC Pledge Drives***The Protect America Act and MORE! Also... if you want to catch up on all things RRT-related, check out our website where you can not only read all about us, you can also download or stream last week's show.

from Jeremy Kareken

ARCTE(c)...T is now accepting submissions for its Contest of the Year award. The American Repertory Company Theater Ensemble Company... Theater is pleased to announce its first annual playwriting contest contest to find the finest playwriting contest in America. Theater Companies are asked to submit one play with the following criteria: 1) It must have won your contest 2) It must encompass the struggles of the working class, disabled, minorities, women, children and disenfranchised animals both alive and non-living. 3) The cast cannot be larger than 2 people, preferably Underage African American Handicapped Chickens... both posthumous members of Equity or equivalent union 3.5) The play must answer the problems of war with the "answer of peace," both internationally and personally 4) The play must take place on (or under) two chairs. No stage will be available for use. Send forty three copies of the play, and a readers fee of $1494.33 (please, no checks, just money orders or stamps) to ARCTE(c)T... T Contest of the Year Award. Winners will be able to hear the cast list and set requirements read silently at our facility as well as astipend of $40 dollars per diem. Playwrights must stay at the Omni Sheraton International, but a special rate will be provided of $1900 per night. If selected, the playwright will promise to scratch his/her name off the title page and insert "I Promise That The Real Author of this Play Was Not Me, but the Artistic Executive Director Manager of ARTCTE(c), Jeremy Kareken. Really. Absolutely. "This, my friends, is the contest of contests. Don't miss out on the chance to have your theater have someone else's script looked at by someone who can read. All proceeds will go to the benefit. And be used. Jeremy is here: http://www.no-monkey.com/