L. Nicol Cabe

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I’ve read a couple of articles lately about theatres banding together in various ways. Despite what you may think of the title, I’m not inherently against it. Artsblog’s “E Pluribus Unum” post makes the point that theatres in New York City have banded together, or are looking to band together, to form groups which share [...]

I’ve spent much of my holiday reading about the Occupy movement, which I have been woefully uneducated about – partly because of being busy, partly because of underreporting from trusted sources. I also tend to read a lot about theatre while I’m on vacations, just generally, so when B. Michael Peterson posted “On artists making [...]

This Thursday, before I shove “traditional” food into my gaping first-world face in celebration of a bunch of religious zealots attempting to eradicate indigenous cultures, I am thankful for many things. One of those things is populism in theatre reviews: A person can write rewarding plays about well-fed people fretting over first-world problems that are [...]

Lots of theatre news lately, apparently. Seattle Times featured a short piece about the future of the Intiman’s space, and how they are considering using it as the Intiman itself rebuilds. According to Deborah Daoust, director of communications for city-run Seattle Center, the center is now eyeing a summer residency for the Intiman and considering [...]

You’ve all probably gathered by now that I work in theatre. I admin for a large theatre, I direct and dramaturg for smaller theatres, I write theatrical pieces (sometimes, in my quieter moments), I used to act, I’m on the board of a clown company, I’m delving further into the world of physical theatre, I [...]

An antidote to the derp of the last post! Yay! First, and most importantly, there’s a new writer’s group forming at Seattle Rep. They are specifically Northwest playwrights, too. This is a very exciting development from a large theatre company, although they have a pretty toned-down expectation of the group. Participants in the group will [...]