105 stories by "Teresa Eyring"
Summertime: the childlike promise of that word never quite leaves us, no matter how freighted we become with adult responsibilities. The promise of time unbound on beaches, the promises swor…
"…this crystallized what I had experienced in Europe: the feeling that there was a competition among different directors and companies to out-innovate one another, and this was their main …
When it rains, it pours, with last week's East Coast storm flooding Soho Rep's acclaimed production of Annie Baker's version of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. A different kind of trouble was also po…
Did the 2012 National Conference in Boston actually end? You might be forgiven for thinking otherwise this past week. In Los Angeles, Latino theatre leaders used Conference 2.0 to help organ…
"Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle." Ray Bradbury, The Martian Chronicles On Tuesday last, we lost one …
TCG has long championed the artistic, moral and civic imperative of diversity. In 2008, we joined more than 4,000 arts practitioners at the National Performing Arts Convention in Denver wher…
If you plan to attend the Conference and haven't yet booked your hotel, it is URGENT that you read this. The Park Plaza Hotel has extended their discount offer one more time for TCG attendee…
I spent a few days recently in Florida, beginning in Sarasota where I was treated to an embarrassment of theatrical riches. In less than 24 hours at Florida Studio Theatre, I saw Reel Music,…
How much activity can two days hold? On Monday of last week, the extraordinary artists and theatre people who make up our board met in New York City for our spring meeting. After a fertile d…
On Monday of last week, TCG was presented with a Distinguished Service to the Theatre Award at the 2012 Theatre Museum Awards for Excellence. Playwright Tina Howe presented the award, and sp…
TCG held its first ever GALA last Monday to celebrate our 50th anniversary. It was an opportunity to bring together friends, both old and new, and to honor the following organization and two…
“To see the earth as it truly is, small and blue and beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats, is to see ourselves as riders on the earth together, brothers on that bright lov…
“I had occasion to do some public-speaking and we picked topics out of a hat…It said 'Nothing of any significance exists west of the Hudson River,' and I breathed a big sigh of relie…
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.” George Orwell, 1984, Book 1, Chapter 7 I've just returned…
"But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion." -Tennessee Williams, The Glass Men…
The old saying has it that laws are like sausages"the less you know about how they are made, the more you like them. Theatre, however, may be more like a garden, and increasingly, audiences …
What do robot rebellions, violence in a boys choir, marital misery and space invaders have in common? They were all a part of Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's daring 1983-84 season. My theat…
"Good artists copy; great artists steal." The origins of this popular phrase have ironically been misattributed to everyone from Steve Jobs to Pablo Picasso to Igor Stravinsky (it was probab…
"People are meant to go through life two by two. 'Tain't natural to be lonesome." – Thornton Wilder, Our Town What may have been true when Wilder was writing his classic look at the Am…
We are pleased to announce the re-launch of the TCG Brain Bank: Where Knowledge Earns Interest! Since we began the TCG Brain Bank three years ago, we've made numerous matches and received a …
What kind of theatre will the next generation inherit? This was a recurring question as I continued my travels from the previous week, visiting theatres in Minneapolis, the San Francisco Bay…
I recently traveled to Anchorage to visit TCG’s three member theatres in Alaska: Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Cyrano’s Theatre Company in Anchorage and "the world's northernmo…
"So we went around asking people, 'If I started a company next year which would do live theatre and it has to be profitable, does it make sense?' And unfortunately, or fortunately, the answe…
Last week, TCG held its winter board meeting, which brought together our nationally-based board of directors, as well as our National Council for the American Theatre. The latter is an advis…
"We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. W…
