{"id":230,"date":"2010-09-08T05:10:18","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T12:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ting.theredcolobus.com\/?p=230"},"modified":"2010-09-08T05:10:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T12:10:18","slug":"there-is-a-decadence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tingericting.com\/?p=230","title":{"rendered":"Decadence…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Quoted in this month’s AMERICAN THEATRE<\/a> magazine (on newsstands now):<\/p>\n

And\u00a0Long Wharf Theatre<\/a> of Connecticut’s associate artistic director, Eric Ting, wondered if the frequent emphasis on turning every play into an “event” is a wise or sustainable way to make theatre. “There is a decadence in this idea of ‘events’: It’s like we’re saying, ‘You want to get a new play done? Get a name attached.’ Events can’t be the norm; we have to build a relationship with our audience over an entire year. It may be what we need to be asking is: How can we turn an entire season into an event?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Quoted in this month’s AMERICAN THEATRE magazine (on newsstands now): And\u00a0Long Wharf Theatre of Connecticut’s associate artistic director, Eric Ting, wondered if the frequent emphasis on turning every play into an “event” is a wise or sustainable way to make theatre. “There is a decadence in this idea of ‘events’: It’s like we’re saying, ‘You want to get a new play done? Get a name attached.’ Events can’t be the norm; we have to build a relationship with our audience over an entire year. It may be what we need to be asking is: How can we turn an entire season into an event?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tingericting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tingericting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tingericting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tingericting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tingericting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.tingericting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tingericting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tingericting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tingericting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}