Los Angeles Theatre Blogs Taking the Fifth
Colin Mitchell | May 08, 2009 | Comments 4 |
So have the Backstage West Blog and the LA Stage Blog just given up entirely on anything resembling opinion anymore?
Just checking, guys.
I’ve contributed a few posts in the last couple months and I noticed they never passed snuff. Or were just ignored. Which is fine, but I haven’t seen ANYTHING resembling an opinion during that time. Wadup?
If you’ve decided on becoming purely audition and production news sites it’s certainly your prerogative. I do find it a shame, however, and it only further supports my thesis that the LA Theatre Community is light years behind the rest of the American Theatre Community when it comes to marketing itself as the viable and vibrant entity that it is. Check out these sites as examples of what I’m talking about, here, here here here and here.
Continued dialogue is a necessity, folks. Face-to-face of course is the best way for this conversation and obviously crucial, but Chicago and New York and San Francisco and Seattle won’t know what the hell we’re doing if we’re constantly huddled away in dark rooms doing our thing rather than exposing our ideas and accomplishments to the light of day. Or as we in the bloggy world call it – the blogosphere.
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That’s why we’re so lucky to have you, Colin. :)
Although it received terrible reviews from blogs and publications alike, my company Brimmer Street’s latest show ‘<3′ was very wired in.
We maintained a development share site with all of our proto-videos and resource material at mproject.newtheatre.org. We kept a rehearsal diary with our entire ensemble contributing at brimmerstreet.blogspot.com. Our show’s website restartyourheart.com is a streaming feed to all things related to our play and themes, and we solicited every blogger in the city to come see our show.
I ain’t braggin, just pointing out that there are company’s who are looking to use these internets to keep our art current and exposed.
I’m also proud to write for the LA Theatre Review which has been gracious enough to let me review some of our city’s emerging troupes. Another great resource is bigcheaptheatre.com, a great social networking site for theatre makers in LA. We should be generous to each other, and have an open dialogue, like Colin espouses. We have little to lose, and everything to gain!
Yes.
Well for the LA Stage Blog it’s true.
They can’t afford to publish the magazine to paper anymore so the content and editorial prerogative moved to the blog so that it would be populated with content since both of the people who had maintained the blog with regularity were let go in December and February respectively.
Yo D – that’s a lot of cyber shizzle going on there – way above my pay grade. But it sounds like you guys are connected and that’s the idea. Thanks for the props!
Thanks for the update, Ian. Big bummer, but I guess it’s understandable. Who or what will fill the void? The “entertainment capitol of the world” can do better!