Locked in a Room with Crazy People
LukeJB, over at his blog, leaps into the fray of the ongoing, perennial discussion of why, exactly, theatre regularly gets pasted in the Art Medium Wars. In responding to Eric Zeigenhagen (whose point I will further distill into “People either like theatre or they don’t”), Luke says
I think the difference is simpler: you can lump [...]
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 [...]
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