Monday, October 07, 2013
From Local to Global: A Paradigm Shift
HowlRound: I moved to Princeton, New Jersey from Los Angeles in 1995 for an opportunity to produce plays for McCarter Theater. I moved from a flagship institution (the Mark Taper Forum) at the center of a major metropolis to an emerging flagship whose context was the entire state. I was lured by artistic director Emily Mann and her fierce determination to create work that mattered; by McCarter's diverse array of presented events in music and dance; and by the proximity to New York and Philadelphia. I also discovered New Jersey's great inferiority complex
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First of all, I think it is fantastic that this artist is taking such a huge risk in her career. The artist is experimenting through her new theatre company. I also think that the idea that risk is beginning to diminish in art because people are too concerned with selling tickets is sad and must be addressed. The segment of this article where the artist was discussing the relationship between NYC theatre and theatre in NJ was extremely interesting to me. I am from Long Island, and I feel that the theatre scene on Long Island is very similar to the theatre scene in NJ. I live about an hour away from the city, and there are very few theaters around where I live. I suspect this is because people that live on Long Island are more likely to go into NYC and see a show on Broadway. The one theater in my hometown holds their rehearsals in NYC and brings in Broadway veterans for their shows. This tactic draws the community to the theater in my hometown, simply because there are Broadway veterans in the casts. This idea can be compared to the state of theatre in NJ, and the idea of commercial theatre and the risk, or lack of risk, involved with theaters that are only concerned with creating their structures in order to produce audiences.
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