Category Archives: Social Media

Socially Performing Media

We take as a premise that Social Media is a performance platform both for the new World Theatre and the Theatre of the World. Who are the new actors? What is the drama that they play? How different or similar … Continue reading

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Talk: Can Technology Help The Performing Arts Community Emerge From Our Bubble?

I was having coffee today with an entrepreneur whose start-up revolves around the performing arts. Although her background is in law and government she is passionate about the arts and determined not only to fight our thirty year audience decline- … Continue reading

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Will/Can/Should Theatre Join The Digital (R)Evolution?

For centuries, the conventional definition of theatre has been of an event occurring in real time in front of a live audience in a physical space. In the last decade alone, there have been hundreds of examples that have put … Continue reading

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#ACTweets: Social Media in the Performing Arts Classroom

During the spring semester of 2013, three acting teachers at three different colleges linked their class discussions through Twitter under the hashtag #ACTweets. (The instructions for students can be found here.) The pedagogical experiment allowed students and teachers to directly … Continue reading

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