Author: Steven Morris

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Read more about the article Where’s the Birdsong in Arden? Tweet Tweet

Where’s the Birdsong in Arden? Tweet Tweet

Theatre Unleashed's Gregory Crafts says we're either a community of Luddites, or we just don't care enough as a community to do what it takes to get the word out about what we do beyond the echo chamber of usual suspects. Crafts has a concrete proposal for the use of social media at the upcoming Hollywood Fringe. He offers the challenge: You want to change things, do something? It's not that difficult: It's called tweeting.

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Read more about the article How Tweet It Is

How Tweet It Is

On the night of the L.A. Weekly Theater Awards, while sitting at his North Hollywood theater with a social media dashboard, a phone, a laptop and five Twitter accounts -- he was also in the middle of running auditions at the time -- Gregory Crafts and his team got the hashtag #LAThtrAwards to trend with well over a million impressions. Crafts tells the story of how they did it, and why it matters.

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Read more about the article The Dog Ate Our Gossip

The Dog Ate Our Gossip

By BILL RADEN Not the best of weeks for titillating gossip, or even the other kind. "Stage Rows" was sworn to silence re news at Zombie Joe's Underground (and swearing to silence is not something we like, or do well). However, there were some tidbits from behind the footlights at the Odyssey Theatre, and we also learned that actress-playwright Jacqueline Wright is back in town.

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Read more about the article Vaulted Ambitions, Volume 2

Vaulted Ambitions, Volume 2

BY MINDY FARABEE The annals of dance have all but passed over Bernice Harrison, despite the 10 years she spent as a standout among the 35 members of the First Negro Classic Ballet (FNCB), a pioneering early 20th century company here in Los Angeles. This is the little known story of FNCB, an exalted dance company whose performers did their art after work. They performed internationally, and have been largely forgotten by history.

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