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Director's Notes Blog: January 2012
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Thoughts, Rants and Observations about the Western New York Dramatic Arts scene. Wednesday, January 11, 2012. A Success Story of Sorts. As 2011 drew to a close and the New Year was ushered in with dropping balls and cheap champagne toasts, I contemplated the first Director's Notes blog of 2012 to kick off this new set of 365 days. What big sizzler could I start the New Year with? A blog about how the Buffalo News. Nah, that can go without saying. The over-saturation of yuppie magazines like The Block Club.
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Director's Notes Blog: September 2011
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Thoughts, Rants and Observations about the Western New York Dramatic Arts scene. Friday, September 23, 2011. Roger Brucker on FLOYD COLLINS. On September 17th, author of. The Floyd Collins Story. Roger Brucker took to the American Rep Theater of WNY stage to chat about Floyd Collins, the Great Save Cave and the stories behind this great Americana tale. In 1976 ,. Depicting his efforts in finding connections between the Flint and the Mammoth Cave systems. Inspired by the caving efforts of regional folk-he...
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Director's Notes Blog: March 2011
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Thoughts, Rants and Observations about the Western New York Dramatic Arts scene. Wednesday, March 16, 2011. Better late than never. Through a posting on regional arts advocacy group's,. Social network page, a representative from the Theater Alliance of Buffalo provided a. To the Greater Buffalo Cultural Alliance's detailing the rationale behind recommending cash-strapped cultural groups that should receive a portion of the recent $430,000 The Fund for the Arts donation . Is dated February 28. Press-relea...
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Director's Notes Blog: January 2011
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Thoughts, Rants and Observations about the Western New York Dramatic Arts scene. Wednesday, January 26, 2011. No Goal; Wide Right; Civic Identity? Out of the mouths of babes. Last month as the World Junior Hockey Championships were underway in Buffalo, the Forward for Team America, Emerson Etem. Tweeted this about the city, "Buffalo is a ghost town! The worst city ever, it makes Medicine Hat look like paradise, never thought ide. After this tweet went public and the city and media went ballistic, Etem.
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Director's Notes Blog: December 2010
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Thoughts, Rants and Observations about the Western New York Dramatic Arts scene. Tuesday, December 7, 2010. Tom Bauerle is a Putz. I am not a big fan of talk radio and a good portion of my dislike comes from the brash, shock 'em approach many of these individuals take as they proclaim opinion on contemporary issues. Talk show radio hosts use this their advantage as they throw out subject they have opinions about in attempts to rabble-rouse demographic pockets. Apparently, Bauerle was on a tangent about t...
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Director's Notes Blog: April 2012
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Thoughts, Rants and Observations about the Western New York Dramatic Arts scene. Wednesday, April 18, 2012. Spending Resources and Building Audiences. This past September when the Artistic Director for The Carolina Actors Studio. Theater, Michael Simmons came to Buffalo to take in a production of ART's Floyd Collins. He told me something insightful about the way he runs his theater's marketing and promotions. I chose to return that money back to the theatre.". Fast-forward to February 2012 and while driv...
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Director's Notes Blog: February 2012
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Thoughts, Rants and Observations about the Western New York Dramatic Arts scene. Friday, February 10, 2012. A World of Twit. How can we describe the first decade of the 21st century? One could always "tag" a photo of it and put the picture on Facebook. But FB is becoming so.so complicated, lame, obsolete and seems to be following the same irrelevant path as it's sleeping drunk-uncle-on-the-couch predecessor, My Space. Indeed, this is the new American language. Has become consider the recent Super Bowl XL...
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Director's Notes Blog: September 2012
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Thoughts, Rants and Observations about the Western New York Dramatic Arts scene. Wednesday, September 12, 2012. A Bread and Circus Worth $60 Million. The Director's Notes Blog is back from a wonderful summer hiatus. As strange as this may sound from a blogger who dedicates his time on writing about topics that surround arts organizations, I deeply love football. Get me a good game of college ball or a rivalry between pee-wee leagues or high schools, and I am into it. When I read about the recent opening ...
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Director's Notes Blog: December 2011
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Thoughts, Rants and Observations about the Western New York Dramatic Arts scene. Monday, December 12, 2011. Professional: An Overused Adjective? There are over twenty theaters in the greater Buffalo region and a dozen or more outside the city limits. Plenty of options with something for everyone in this city. What is this buzz-word foghorn? In a recent interview with. A director for a local theater company had to say this about a production of Tracy Letts, "He's a very important playwright in American Th...
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