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Stretching
Been catching up on my blog reading. It’s been a while, between taxes and tech and projects and travel, so I’m staring down about 3,000 posts or so. I am skimming, to say the least. I have noticed,...
View ArticleThe Best Part is They Don’t Know How to End
For all of those who have designed this show, with its riders and its reps who threaten to come in and shut it down. It’s a magical land. Who are you talking to? Buy Me a Coffee?
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Schedule C for the Theater Freelancer
If your income stream is anything like mine, you kind of feel a one-two punch at the end of the tax year for simply being an artist in America (though clearly Canadians also have issues). Most...
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How to get the Right Website for Your Theater Company
When we first got the proposed design for the Newleaftheatre.org site in 2004, the marketing team of the era was in absolute awe. We were sitting in the spacious, well-lit trendy “living room” of one...
View ArticleQuestioning a Design Aesthetic, 2000 – 2005
So @travisbedardand @hethfenasked me the other day about blog posts related to sound design for the theater and, after slogging through my archives, I realized I had only a shameful 2 (two!) posts...
View ArticleI love on Chicago Amplified
WBEZ’s Chicago Amplified program has beefed up its presence in the Chicago theater talkback circuit… quietly and diligently recording interesting conversations and performances that would otherwise be...
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Sound Design Interview on Talk Theatre in Chicago
Chicago-based sound designers Josh Horvath, Ray Nardelli, and little ol’ me are interviewed by Anne Nicholson Weber in this week’s Talk Theatre in Chicago podcast. Ray and Josh talk about their design...
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You have no control over your life.
No answers here, just questions. Big events have been drawing this fact of life into sharp relief over the past week/month/year, on a huge scale and many spin-off, convoluted, personal scales. The...
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Maintenance
So this was on my desk two days ago. An inbox of low-priority filing that went back to October 2007. Yikes. I realized, as this particularly busy season draws to a close (at the Goodman Owen stage...
View ArticleIn Defense of Stage Managers
Anne Nicholson Weber, in the podcast interview I posted a few weeks ago, asked the question: “What exactly does a stage manager do?” Josh, Ray and I kind of looked at each other in that moment,...
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