Up Next: Teens & Theater

Interesting Theater and Boring Theater

I’ve been telling my students lately that there are only two kinds of theater: interesting theater and boring theater.
There is no meaningful difference between Broadway theater and regional theater and community theater and university theater.
There’s interesting theater and boring theater.
And interesting theater is interested in me.
Me sitting there with other people watching and listening to it.
Interesting theater understands that my time is the most precious thing I have and the world is very, very interesting already, so it tries to be more interesting than the street outside.

- playwright John Clancy

There’s Room for All of Us in Theater

So excited Mixed Blood found this! We Up Next Bay Area teens LOVE Mixed Blood’s Radical Hospitality program (and we wish we lived closer so we could see more of Mixed Blood’s work). We’re also fans of the decision to livestream the MBT production On the Spectrum. Relevant, exciting, funny, true theater made accessible to the people who need to see it. YES. YESYESYES.

If you’re ever in MN, pay them a visit.

mixedbloodtheatre:

This quote explains why we do radical hospitality (giving away tickets for no charge). We want everyone to get a chance to experience theatre.

upnextbayarea:

“For all our ability to transform and transport audiences, theater artists lack a lot of basic social skills when the house lights rise. “Thanks for your $35, now get out.” Audiences and emerging artists desperately want in. Open a door or in the very least, open a window. There’s room for all of us.”

- Adrienne Dawes, playwright

There’s Room for All of Us in Theater

“For all our ability to transform and transport audiences, theater artists lack a lot of basic social skills when the house lights rise. “Thanks for your $35, now get out.” Audiences and emerging artists desperately want in. Open a door or in the very least, open a window. There’s room for all of us.”

- Adrienne Dawes, playwright

On Exciting Theater

Theater that is magic.
That provokes and pushes boundaries.
That poses difficult questions.
That reflects the human condition.
That shows us how awful and beautiful we can be to one another …and that we have a choice in how we behave.
That uses powerful and provocative language.
That introduces us to interesting and compelling characters.
That is intimate, funny, honest, scary, ugly, messy, poetic, and beautiful.
Theater, that while ephemeral, remains with you forever.

- playwright Jacqueline E. Lawton

(Source: aszym.blogspot.com)