Posts Tagged ‘theater’

MEETING, IMPORTANT

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

That’s right, everyone.  After all those entries about development and workshopping and considering… it’s finally happening.  We’re very proud to announce the third and final show of season.three!

MEETING, IMPORTANT

The combined efforts of Mary, Drew, Jess, Mattie, Leticia, Nicholas, David, Carolyn, Jojo, New York University, CSV Cultural Center, Harvard University, our amazing first workshop cast, and everyone who has seen and thought about and commented on the show have all come to this.  So get your tickets now!

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Donuts.
Coffee.
Corporate Communication.

It’s all on the table as the professional becomes personal in art.party.theater.company’s “MEETING, IMPORTANT”.

December 2 - 20
Mon - Fri
3 shows a night: 6:30pm // 8pm // 9:30pm

Tickets: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/212334

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Meeting, Important - an art.party workshop

Sunday, August 7th, 2011

Loyal readers, this is it: part three of our three-part blogsperience devoted to the creation and execution of a workshop production of art.party’s new play Meeting, Important.

First, we teased you.  Then we showed you some pictures of hard-working work in CT.  Now, we take you inside the last week to show you pictures from the workshop itself.  We began with a three-day intensive at the CSV Cultural Center, moved to Space on White for an afternoon, then hit NYU’s Pless Hall for the actual production.  The week featured the art.party minds of MB+JB+LF+DB+MB and the acting stylings of Mikaela Feely-Lehmann, Lisa Birnbaum, and art.party members Dave Ingber, Jojo Karlin, and our newest addition, Nick Delany!  Check out the fotos - and stay tuned…

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Let’s table this discussion, then?  It was lovely MEETING everyone who came out for the workshop - Samantha will be sure to let you know when we need you to fly out for the next quarterly meeting.  In the meantime, run the numbers.  We’ll be in touch.

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Made for an audience

Monday, June 15th, 2009

Our theater is made for an audience.

Seems pretty obvious, no? Jess, Mary and I had a discussion on Friday about this statement. They feel that most theater these days is just like TV, or, to quote Jess as I steal from our e-mail chain, “made as a masturbatory artistic gesture to one’s own brilliance. (i.e. They don’t serve cookies. They do serve long silences.) What it means is that we are always making theater that is welcoming and appreciative of the people that come to it. So, it will never smell like horse shit, be 200 degrees, or force the audience to cry from pain or boredom.”

And, can I be honest? Our cookies are damn good.

-L

Col-lab-or-ation, makes it happen!

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

I would like to second Carolyn’s post about collaborative art and say: YAY for COLLABORATION!

Theater, by nature is (almost always) a collaborative process and it is why I like being involved with it so much. Most of the work I do in the rest of my creative life is, by nature, a solo job (photography, painting, sewing, etc.). I love having that time to myself to focus, to produce, to meditate and create, but there’s something so exciting about when you get together with one or more other people who are just waiting to pop (!) with ideas. There’s nothing more fun and motivating than egging each other on (creative peer pressure!)–the energy is contagious.

I have a grandiose vision of a DIY community that comes together to play, to exchange ideas and pump one-another up, all in my own backyard… Hmm, note to self: find a back yard…or a boat yard? Anyone, perchance have access to an empty one?

Fundraiser “collaboration art.party” in a __yard this summer?

Let’s DO IT!

-AT