tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post115254663051541547..comments2024-01-07T06:59:04.212-05:00Comments on The Playgoer: Major Panels TodayPlaygoerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02994724588504353485noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1152622963386496312006-07-11T09:02:00.000-04:002006-07-11T09:02:00.000-04:00Well, the panelists might be right. Unfortunately ...Well, the panelists might be right. Unfortunately that attitude is their own death warrant; in marginalizing this work outside of their own bricks-and-mortar theaters, they're rendering their own buildings simultaneously irrelevant to art.<BR/><BR/>These so-called "Artistic Directors" of institutional theaters should really take that word "Artistic" out of their titles, and there's a huge difference between the directorships of PS122 and NYTW. Gantner (like Mark Russell before him) is more of a curator of the PS122 spaces, while Nicola has more pretense. The administrators of these spaces should be more in the nature of discriminating landlords who lease their spaces rent-free, the art itself being the rent paid on the space, which the institution financially subsidizes, leaving the art in the hands of the artists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12657288.post-1152622439085786652006-07-11T08:53:00.000-04:002006-07-11T08:53:00.000-04:00I went to the first one....stop whining and find p...I went to the first one....stop whining and find people who respect you and a barn out in the boonies to work with them in seemed to be the theme. lots of whiny "why can't I get my work produced?" questions, even after the panelists gave, I think, pretty thorough ideas on how to seek out and create production venues, as well as the disclaimer that there doesn't seem to be one fool-proof method of developing one's career. intereting tat they all encouraged <BR/>producing work regionally rather than just showing up in NY and trying to make it big.Larissahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04973507475111468033noreply@blogger.com