Archive for the ‘Theater Issues’ Category
The Hundred Flowers Project is a play that has an intimate relationship with current technologies. The premise is that a tech savvy Asian American theater company is devising and collaboratively creating a play about Mao Zedong. At our first rehearsal Desdemona, the director, described the company in the play as an “Asian Wooster Group.” There [...]
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We’re thrilled to announce that Christopher Chen is the recipient of the 2012 Rella Lossy Playwrights Award for the upcoming production of The Hundred Flowers Project! “The meta theater embedded in the script [The Hundred Flowers Project] showed a fresh and challenging voice. This script broke the fourth and fifth wall of the theater formally, [...]
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Tickets are now on sale for the entire 2012 Season! In addition to our single ticket sales, we’re experimenting with Season Flex Passes which get you tickets at a considerable savings. They’re a seriously good deal, but available for a limited time only. Check it out: Buy a 2012 PREMIUM Flex Pass for only $55 OR [...]
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It has become habit for me to scan a show program or a season announcement with a keen eye towards locating how many women artists are involved in the creation of the work. To my dismay (tempered with a jaded eye roll), it’s often far fewer women artists than men – from playwrights, directors, designers, [...]
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We talk a lot here at CFT about our size allowing us to be nimble…it’s one of the perks of not being entrenched in a larger institutional setting. We pretty much get to dream big and execute those dreams in the ways that we see fit. And given our limited resources, I often marvel at [...]
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Director of New Works, Laura Brueckner, talks about the thought process behind selecting this year’s Matchbox Reading Series plays. Selecting new plays for a reading series is truly a fascinating process. It’s quite different than selecting new plays for full production, and that difference is actually exciting and liberating in many ways. When your staging [...]
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On Wednesday, November 2, George McRae from Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired will join the cast and crew of Sticky Time to audio describe the performance for patrons who are visually impaired. Audio description is a verbal commentary that tells visually impaired theatre-goers what is happening on the stage during the parts of the performance where [...]
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Kickstarter. Oh brave new world! Inspired by the success of many of our sister companies, Crowded Fire is launching our first Kickstarter campaign and here’s why we’re excited… 1) Kickstarter is amazingly democratic. From the largest organizations with hefty projects, to the tiniest seed of an idea between two artists, Kickstarter offers a fertile ground [...]
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This week marks Crowded Fire’s first workshop in New York City. Big lights, baby. The Hundred Flowers Project by Christopher Chen will receive a workshop at The Lark Play Development Center via the Sister Cities program with our co-producers, Playwrights Foundation . Director Adriana Baer has been instrumental in assembling a wonderful team of NY actors, [...]
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As we hunker down for the third and final show of our 2011 season, we’re also knee deep in our season planning for 2012. For CFT’s small staff this requires employing ninja-like skills to balance aesthetics, engage Resident Artists, and tow the budget line. In these moments of juggling I am struck by the questions [...]
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