“Today, the Pisgah Film House sadly announced that they were permanently shutting their doors. While the film industry, even for small houses like Pisgah, faces a changing future with COVID-19, stated as a major reason for their closure is that they never received their funds that were raised using Brown Paper Tickets.”
Read MoreIf your heart and soul are happy, if you are content with your life and can do what you love - then you are fulfilled. And if it means you’re never on Broadway, if you aren’t in the next superhero blockbuster but are happy - that’s ok. Because fame isn’t the only form of fulfillment.
Read More“The life skills you can learn from school theater at any level or from community theater are important and can help you develop a unique perspective on life and how to deal with the everyday struggles.”
Read More“We all have good reasons in the world to turn toward this new kind of theatre. Helping the industry, curiosity, learning, safety, comfort, hope, community, creativity, we all find something that resonates. And theatre and its uniqueness, its sound, its shots, its productions, its characters, and its audience give us all this. Online or not.
Read More“When writing a new play – and ultimately, when it is eventually selected for production – the goal should be to make an audience do at least one of the three following things, in one way or another…”
Read More“After a show last year, someone commented on my weight while talking to me in the lobby. Her friends stood around speechless. I was speechless too.”
Read More“Did you hear the one about the Broadway musical so bad, so horrible, so huge a flop that after it closed, the company that owned the theater sold it to a church group?
No?”
Read MoreAccording to cheated customers, Brown Paper Tickets’ customer service is a mess. Phone calls and emails aren’t being returned. If there is a response, it’s automated and provides very little details. Questions over what happened to their funds aren’t being answered. And now, to top it all off, they shut down their phone support.
Read MoreI accidentally introduced myself to Broadway about five years ago and I couldn’t help but notice how theater culture on Broadway differs from the theater culture that I know: the theater culture in Latvia.
Read More“If audience members are tortured by a play, it should be because the playwright is forcing them to deal with life’s difficult issues. It should not from lack of craft, or because the playwright is rambling on with nothing of substance to say.”
Read More“Full of that dark humour and nihilist thinking that Beckett is so famous for, it really spoke to me on that day. What I didn’t know, however, was what it was teaching me for our very near future, a.k.a. our present lockdown.”
Read More“While most productions big and small across the country did cancel or postpone, unlike Broadway or the West End’s ominous shuttering, a few productions in Korea have remained open. Korea’s approach elucidates hints of what the Broadway community should expect, or perhaps demand, from theater owners, audiences, producers, and marketing in order to move forward together.”
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