{"id":823,"date":"2012-01-12T22:09:58","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T22:09:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artstrategies.org\/leadership_tools\/readinglist\/?p=823"},"modified":"2014-02-12T11:51:13","modified_gmt":"2014-02-12T16:51:13","slug":"building-a-new-american-theater-of-the-commons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/2012\/01\/building-a-new-american-theater-of-the-commons\/","title":{"rendered":"Building a New American Theater of the Commons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a title=\"Building a New American Theater of the Commons\" href=\"http:\/\/www.shareable.net\/blog\/the-theater-at-a-crossroads-seeking-a-sustainable-model-for-creativity\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Building a New American Theater of the Commons<\/a>,&#8221; Polly Carl and Vijay Matthew of The American Voices New Play Institute discuss the need to approach theater as a &#8220;We&#8221; rather than a &#8220;Me.&#8221; They cite the ideas behind the regional theater movement of the 1960s:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>&#8220;&#8230;that cultural institutions like theaters, museums, and symphonies are a value proposition and compose the life-blood of any city along with libraries, schools, hospitals and public works. It was born out of the same collaborative impulse that is required in making a great play<\/em>\u2014<em>a belief that the shared resource of artistic imagination makes communities better.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Carl and Matthew write that to make these ideas relevant in the 21st century, we must become &#8220;stewards of a collectively shared commons&#8221; and discuss ways in which we can take advantage of the internet&#8217;s &#8220;civilization-defining impact&#8221; to encourage collaboration and the coordination of resources, as well as to create artistic opportunity. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shareable.net\/blog\/the-theater-at-a-crossroads-seeking-a-sustainable-model-for-creativity\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Building a New American Theater of the Commons&#8221; \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Julia Rowntree, co-director of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.claygroundcollective.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"> <em>Project Clay<\/em><\/a>, a participatory public art project for the 2012 Olympic Games in London, for referring us to this piece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In &#8220;Building a New American Theater of the Commons,&#8221; Polly Carl and Vijay Matthew of The American Voices New Play Institute discuss the need to approach theater as a &#8220;We&#8221; rather than a &#8220;Me.&#8221; They cite the ideas behind the regional theater movement of the 1960s: &#8220;&#8230;that cultural institutions like theaters, museums, and symphonies are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[136],"tags":[154,71,127,438],"coauthors":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-823","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-reading-list","7":"tag-collaboration","8":"tag-social-media","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-theater","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/fieldnotes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}