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Kelli Cousins and Ticha Guillaud in The Belle's Stratagem at the Alcyone Festival 08....
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Historically there are a pretty limited number of ways to create change: legislation, taxation, education and shame. In a society that abhors taxation, has little shame (watch any realty TV show), and typically cannot pass much meaningful legislation (unl...
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Catching up, seems like how I spend most of my time lately. Right now it's 8:42. Jenn is out watching Letters X. I'm gonna try and go see Minita in Twelfth Night this weekend at Piccolo. Both kids are now asleep. It's really quiet. Something I'm not used ...
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Closing night party for The Other Shore....
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The Other Shore Closes Tonight. Photo by Tom McGrath...
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How do you know if you're doing a good job? I think it is often difficult for us to really take stock of our work objectively and know how we are doing. And yet, I know we did a good job producing The Other Shore.But how can one measure that? There are a...
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Juan checks in with the designers before giving Aimee a note during tech for Cloud Tectonics....
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The True Historians play at Halcyon's first benefit....
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Not long ago Kris Vire posted on the TOC Blog about how awful many non-profit arts organizations are at marketing.I had just started playing around with Twitter and got hooked after the ensuing conversation sparked by the article among other things. The f...
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The recently engaged Greg Poljacik and Denise Santomauro in Henry IV. ...
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First read-through of Haroun in Winnemac Park. ...
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I've seen a lot of congratulatory messages about the NEA's re-inclusion in the economic stimulus bill. After years of artists and arts org seeing shrinking funding and even longer spent pining for European-style state support, something's better than noth...
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The cast of A Bold Stroke for a Wife gets notes backstage next to some modern sculpture....
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Alka teaches the Haroun cast a dance....
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What organizations do you think are doing well in terms of their online presence?
Which ones do you think aren't?
Why?...
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The cast of The Other Shore during the first run through the show.Note the ladies are off book. Doug and Juan. . . not so much yet. (Thankfully they caught up.) Jenn was about 9 months pregnant at that point. MIA's not the only pregnant lady that kept on...
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Over at the Nonprofiteer, she makes a typically astute argument for framing the debate over public funding of the arts. (And changes her previously held position against public funding for the arts in the process.)As she watched this astonishing company p...
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Everyone sees something different in The Other Shore. Only two weekends left to go find out what you see."This is Beckett-ish, puzzling, causing astonishment, wonder, and will keep your eyes, ears and brains engaged for the entire 75 minutes. It's a WOW. ...
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Was unloading photos from our camera over the weekend I thought it might be fun to post some more images now and then. What happens when you lose a designer and a baby sitter in the same cue-to-cue day? Neither of us were happy with that cue . . ....
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The Other Shore was on Dueling Critics today on Chicago Public Radio's 848. It was interesting to hear their takes. While I don't necessarily agree with their final assessments, I enjoyed the discussion quite a bit.(One small note I'd make, and it is a ti...
