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Posted in humanity, large theatre, small theatre, theory by L. Nicol Cabe - Apr 17, 2012

I’ve said this on my own before, but Rebecca Novick has now pointed out, more loudly and in a better forum (and with better research into options!) that the Non-Profit Theatre Movement has served it’s purpose and is now doing more to hamper artists than help them. It’s a great, pithy article, full of examples [...]

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First, and most obviously, the Seattle Fringe Festival is back. Not just having committee meetings, but for realsies it’s back – they’re accepting applications through their website for a September 19-23rd, 2012 run! In other, suddenly-announced news, there’s a new building going up – slated for completion in 2014 – that will be right across [...]

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Into a different gear

Posted in creativity, humanity, me, Uncategorized, Writing by L. Nicol Cabe - Mar 14, 2012

So I’m developing a solo show. This is very different for me. I don’t consider myself an actor, although I do consider myself a writer, director, dramaturg, critic, and other sorts of theatre artist as necessary. But I haven’t been onstage in 3 years or so, and I haven’t created my own material – outside [...]

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News of the Paranoid

Posted in humanity, large theatre, theory by L. Nicol Cabe - Mar 05, 2012

Some paranoid news has popped up recently. Let’s start with the latest on “Spider-man: Turn off the Dark”: Julie Taymor Claims there was a secret plot to fire her from “Spider-man” So, Julie Taymor, in her law suit for copyright infringement, has claimed that there was a plot behind the scenes of the near-deadly musical [...]

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Big News Leap Day Post

Posted in creativity, humanity, large theatre, theory by L. Nicol Cabe - Feb 29, 2012

A lot of news stories caught my attention today, half of them theatre-related. Here’s some bits: HowlRound and Julie Felise Dubiner dare literary managers and dramaturgs to reach new heights with play development. One of my favorite quotes: We must read books and newspapers and travel and meet other theater makers and people who make [...]

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Julie Taymor makes the big bucks

Posted in humanity, large theatre, me by L. Nicol Cabe - Feb 16, 2012

There’s so much entertaining scandal surrounding Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark. The deal announced Thursday should leave Taymor’s Spidey-sense — and wallet — tingling: She will reportedly receive full royalties of nearly $10,000 a week through the show’s entire New York run. … Under the agreement, Taymor will also collect unspecified compensation when the production [...]

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The Intiman Raised $1 million

Posted in humanity, Intiman, large theatre by L. Nicol Cabe - Feb 07, 2012

Congratulations, I hope, to the Intiman, which BAAAAAAAARELY made its fundraising goal. I hope the theatre takes notice that the public, in mostly small donations, contributed the bulk of the money raised. The largest pledges were four $100,000 gifts from repeat Intiman benefactors Sue Leavitt and Bill Block; Eve and Chap Alvord; Marcia and Klaus [...]

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Sexism is a problem everywhere, even in theatre

Posted in humanity, theory by L. Nicol Cabe - Jan 19, 2012

I assign a lot of labels to myself. Among those labels are: atheist, feminist, computer nerd, and theatre artist/geek. New Atheism and Theatre Arts are both precious to me. The New Atheist and Skeptical movements have an emphasis on objective reality, science-based reasoning, and in that way encourage, at least for me and the blogs [...]

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Insert something pithy about the New Year here

Posted in humanity, me, theory by L. Nicol Cabe - Jan 02, 2012

Last year, I examined, in an armchair statistics way, what Seattle theatre was like based on SeattlePerforms.com and how many of the theatres’ websites still existed. This year, I don’t have that much to say. Aside from the Intiman crumbling, which I’ve been blogging about pretty extensively, there hasn’t been much development. Not that I’ve [...]

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Not that this is a bad thing – I think it’s a good way of helping them restore donors’ and patrons’ faith – but it looks like the Intiman is going full-on post-modern and stealing an idea from Kickstarter. Instead of taking donations up front, Our new plan protects donors: we will not spend money [...]

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