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I just discovered Leopold Kohr, an Austrian economist who was a mentor and inspiration for E. F Schumacher, author of Small Is ...

Nice Mike Daisey Interview

April 19th, 2008

Check out the Mike Daisey interview with Jonathan West, whose blog attack on Mike Daisey spawned a post from me. Original post by ...

Defining Local

April 19th, 2008

The theatre tribe idea is predicated on an artistic version of localism: "a range of political philosophies which prioritise the local. Generally ...
In 1964, Herbert Blau published The Impossible Theatre: A Manifesto. This is how the book began -- the first two paragraphs that ...

TCG Books! Wha…?

April 15th, 2008

So I was thrilled to get my TCG Books catalog in the mail yesterday, especially since book orders for next semester are ...
There is currently a discussion on an Asheville website about whether posted reviews ought to be anonymous or signed. I believe that ...

On the Economy and the Arts

April 14th, 2008

Laura Axelrod at Gasp! contacted me regarding the NYTW situation, seeing this as just the tip of a much larger, and more ...

In Praise of NCStage Co.

April 14th, 2008

As anyone who has read this blog for long knows, I live in Asheville, NC, the home of several professional theatres including ...

More on NYTW Firings

April 14th, 2008

From Mike Lawler's ecoTheater blog, "An Open Letter from Michael Casselli":“It is sad that an institution like the Workshop has devolved in ...
Check it out here. Amazing. Original post by Scott Walters