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L. Nicol Cabe Stage Director, Dramaturge, Acting Coach, Theatre Teacher, and general Artist

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L. Nicol Cabe · 1M ago

YAY THANK YOU

I’ve said this on my own before, but Rebecca Novick has now pointed out, more loudly and in a better forum (and with better research into options!) that the Non-Profit Theatre Movement has served it’s purpose and is now doing more to hamper artists than help them. It’s a great, pithy article, full o
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L. Nicol Cabe · 1M ago

Good news, Seattle Theatre Scene!

First, and most obviously, the Seattle Fringe Festival is back. Not just having committee meetings, but for realsies it’s back – they’re accepting applications through their website for a September 19-23rd, 2012 run! In other, suddenly-announced news, there’s a new building going up – slated for com
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L. Nicol Cabe · 1M ago

Philadelphia theatre company uses the internet to create shows

This is kind of old news, but still fascinating. New Paradise Laboratories is using social media to create plots and character back-stories for new work. This innovative experience takes audiences through a rabbit hole on a visually stimulating online adventure. Stories evolve on social networks wit
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L. Nicol Cabe · 2M ago

Into a different gear

So I’m developing a solo show. This is very different for me. I don’t consider myself an actor, although I do consider myself a writer, director, dramaturg, critic, and other sorts of theatre artist as necessary. But I haven’t been onstage in 3 years or so, and I haven’t created my own material – ou
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L. Nicol Cabe · 2M ago

News of the Paranoid

Some paranoid news has popped up recently. Let’s start with the latest on “Spider-man: Turn off the Dark”: Julie Taymor Claims there was a secret plot to fire her from “Spider-man” So, Julie Taymor, in her law suit for copyright infringement, has claimed that there was a plot behind the scenes of th
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L. Nicol Cabe · 2M ago

Big News Leap Day Post

A lot of news stories caught my attention today, half of them theatre-related. Here’s some bits: HowlRound and Julie Felise Dubiner dare literary managers and dramaturgs to reach new heights with play development. One of my favorite quotes: We must read books and newspapers and travel and meet other
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L. Nicol Cabe · 3M ago

“Cocktails at the Centre of the Earth” at Annex Theatre

In the past couple of years, I’ve been to see a fair number of shows at Annex Theatre. Though a small, fringe theatre in an odd upstairs space in Capitol Hill, they have always impressed me with the high quality of writing, production, and acting in their shows. Nearly all of their plays are thought
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L. Nicol Cabe · 3M ago

Julie Taymor makes the big bucks

There’s so much entertaining scandal surrounding Spider-man: Turn Off the Dark. The deal announced Thursday should leave Taymor’s Spidey-sense — and wallet — tingling: She will reportedly receive full royalties of nearly $10,000 a week through the show’s entire New York run. … Under the agreement, T
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L. Nicol Cabe · 3M ago

The Intiman Raised $1 million

Congratulations, I hope, to the Intiman, which BAAAAAAAARELY made its fundraising goal. I hope the theatre takes notice that the public, in mostly small donations, contributed the bulk of the money raised. The largest pledges were four $100,000 gifts from repeat Intiman benefactors Sue Leavitt and B
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L. Nicol Cabe · 4M ago

Time-based art

After many years of waiting, I finally had the opportunity to see one of the 4 days of 14/48. Afterward, my theatre partner and I had an interesting discussion about time-based art, and what the benefits vs downsides are. He’s not in favor of it, generally, because it doesn’t allow space for the cre
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