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Seeking Script Submissions for Next Live Streamed Show

by kathryn June 13, 2011 live streaming

The production team that produced Better Left Unsaid TV – the first of its kind interactive, live streamed video-play, is seeking script submissions for our next live streamed production. As the first of its kind, professional, live streamed play, Better Left Unsaid had over 50,000 unique viewers, and served as the launching pad for a [...]

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Lets Put On A (Live-Streamed) Show!

by kathryn May 24, 2011 Acting as a Business

This article was first published in the April Issue of Scene4 Magazine The American theatrical blogosphere has been awash these past few months with responses to Rocco Landesman’s recent speech in which he asserted that the supply of arts in America has outpaced demand. If, as Mr. Landesman believes, attendance at American theater is decreasing [...]

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AND. The Promise Of Live Streaming Theater.

by kathryn March 2, 2011 better left unsaid

This post was originally published on the 2AMt blog. It summarizes the history, the reasons behind,  metrics, the technical and aesthetic requirements of and the successes of our production of Better Left Unsaid TV,  the first of it’s kind interactive live streamed play. To skip to the section that most interests you click the appropriate [...]

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Better Left Unsaid in NYTheatre.com

by kathryn February 3, 2011 better left unsaid

Thank you so much to NYTheatre.com’s Robert Attenweiler who took the time to review Better Left Unsaid both in person and online. … Better Left Unsaid nytheatre.com review Robert Attenweiler · January 30, 2011 Pictured: A scene from Better Left Unsaid (photo © JP Yim) When is watching a play not like watching a play? [...]

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People From All Over the US are Loving Better Left Unsaid!

by kathryn February 1, 2011 better left unsaid

What an exhilarating two weeks. Joey and Erin and I, three people with a tiny budget and a huge vision have overcome some incredible hurdles and succeeded in bringing live, professional New York theater to anyone, anywhere in the world with a computer.  We have had live audiences in the theater in the heart of [...]

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FringeTALK Streaming Live!

by kathryn January 6, 2011 live streaming

As we gear up to go live with Better Left Unsaid (two weeks and counting folks!) we are taking a little time out to co-produce FringeTALK, an interactive live-streamed Town Hall on the occasion of the 15th Anniversary of The New York International Fringe Festival. This is a chance for anyone and everyone who has [...]

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And We’re Off! Rehearsals Begin…

by kathryn December 14, 2010 better left unsaid

I can’t believe it!  Better Left Unsaid, the first of its kind,  interactive live streamed play (!) begins rehearsals today! It has been a long and winding and incredibly rewarding haul since Joey and I first hatched this crazy and wonderful idea last May 5th  (in the Times Square Dean and Deluca prior to our [...]

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Welcome to our New Associate Producer, Erin Bigelow

by kathryn September 18, 2010 better left unsaid

Joey and I are so thrilled to welcome Erin to our team. Better Left Unsaid is a play that explores the multitudes of ways our lives connect with each other, and having Erin on our team is an example of the surprising synchronicity in so many of our relationships. Joey and Erin have known each [...]

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Can theater thrive in a YouTube world?

by kathryn September 17, 2010 live streaming

“Theater People: We need you!” So said Virginia Heffernan, digital media critic of the New York Times when reviewing my live streamed online video series “35″. It was a rough night- we had sound problems, we had camera problems- in fact we shot all 10 episodes on a budget of less than $6000- and yet [...]

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Live Online Video up 600% according to Comscore

by kathryn September 7, 2010 live streaming

…actually 648% according to Andres Palmiter in his recent article for Comscore. To further gild the lily, live streamed videos are holding on to their audiences 7% longer than traditional on demand video. Why are live online broadcasts attracting and keeping an audience? In a world with hundreds of thousands of videos on demand, live [...]

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