Comments on: Where to find the Good Stuff http://nikku.net/blog/where-to-find-the-good-stuff/ The Art in the Business of Theater - Collaboration Tools and Technology and the Storefront Theater Movement Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:03:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Laura http://nikku.net/blog/where-to-find-the-good-stuff/#comment-295 Laura Tue, 06 May 2008 15:09:19 +0000 http://nikku.net/blog/where-to-find-the-good-stuff/#comment-295 What a nice compliment. Thanks, Nick! I'm pretty brand new on the scene, but one of the reasons I started blogging is because I was reading all these great blogs and wondering why there weren't many women myself! So a) thanks for reading, and b) keep up the good work! What a nice compliment. Thanks, Nick! I’m pretty brand new on the scene, but one of the reasons I started blogging is because I was reading all these great blogs and wondering why there weren’t many women myself! So a) thanks for reading, and b) keep up the good work!

]]> By: Nick Keenan http://nikku.net/blog/where-to-find-the-good-stuff/#comment-289 Nick Keenan Tue, 06 May 2008 07:14:28 +0000 http://nikku.net/blog/where-to-find-the-good-stuff/#comment-289 Don't know why the trackback didn't work, but Trailing Spouse Blues has <a href="http://chicagoaninithaca.blogspot.com/2008/04/distracted-actors.html" rel="nofollow">a nice follow up to this article. </a> Laura's got some really wonderful insights in general after going back through her posts. Can't believe I've been doing all this ranting on a dearth of women theater bloggers and she's been right here. She hits discussions head on and adds wonderful analysis from a kind of social health perspective: <blockquote> in theatre, as I was growing up and now as an adult, I found my focus. I had to work hard at it, much harder than anything else I did, and it took up more of my time and energy than anything else in my life, and that was valuable to me. Nick's students are trying to produce a show but doing so in insane competition with all of these kids' million other activities. They might have to miss a rehearsal for a physics team meet or always be late running in from soccer practice or miss a cue because they're trying to study for a math test backstage. I never encountered a director who would stand for that... until I worked with a Gen Y director.</blockquote> Oh, go read the whole thing. *Clapping* Don’t know why the trackback didn’t work, but Trailing Spouse Blues has a nice follow up to this article.

Laura’s got some really wonderful insights in general after going back through her posts. Can’t believe I’ve been doing all this ranting on a dearth of women theater bloggers and she’s been right here. She hits discussions head on and adds wonderful analysis from a kind of social health perspective:

in theatre, as I was growing up and now as an adult, I found my focus. I had to work hard at it, much harder than anything else I did, and it took up more of my time and energy than anything else in my life, and that was valuable to me. Nick’s students are trying to produce a show but doing so in insane competition with all of these kids’ million other activities. They might have to miss a rehearsal for a physics team meet or always be late running in from soccer practice or miss a cue because they’re trying to study for a math test backstage. I never encountered a director who would stand for that… until I worked with a Gen Y director.

Oh, go read the whole thing.

*Clapping*

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