Small Ball, Long Ball

Happy New Decade, everyone.
Now let’s get started.
We’re going to begin, naturally enough, with baseball.
Baseball is an individual sport masquerading as a team sport. A team is made up of a group of specialists who don’t necessarily have to like each other. A game is made up of dozens of contests between those individuals – the [...]

It's About You, Too

By now, you’ve all heard about About Face’s money troubles and their campaign for $300,000 to keep its doors open – either from the media or from emails from the company. I get these direct appeals fairly frequently these days, and I’m used to politely explaining to the Annual Fund staffers at Steppenwolf or the [...]

New Models and the Four Ages

Kris asks – “Do we have too many theatres?” And Adam says, “Only if we’re all trying to do the same thing in the same way, artistically and organizationally.”
The last time I started thinking about this issue, my attempt to get a handle on who, exactly, we are as a community resulted in the Chicago [...]