Author: Andy Horwitz
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The Following Evening, A Year Later
In 2024, Talking Band and 600 Highwaymen presented “The Following Evening” at PACNYC. Here are some thoughts after a year’s reflection.
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Learning to See Los Angeles
Learning to see Los Angeles through the hype and imagining a new civic dramaturgy.
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The Room Where It Happens (The Room Being Your Head or, the Phenomenology of Neurodiversity in Performance)
The subtle, subversive brilliance of Back to Back Theatre’s “The Shadow Whose Prey the Hunter Becomes” at REDCAT
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Some Thoughts on Cultural Asset Mapping
Building arts and culture infrastructure? Here are some lessons learned from a community-based cultural asset mapping initiative in South Los Angeles.
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The Alchemy of Small Groups (Part 6 of 6)
If the human world is organized in small groups, what are the qualities and conditions that make small groups work best?
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The World In Small Groups
Once you notice it, you can’t stop seeing it – the world organized in small groups. Why? What makes small group experiences uniquely powerful?
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Worst Sex Ever and the WYSIWYG Talent Show, or Tales from Blogland
In 2004, nearly 300 NYC bloggers and their readers came together IRL for the first time to meet each other, drink and try to hook up. What does it mean when online communities gather in person? The 4th in a series of essays about live events and small group experiences.
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From Black Box to Broadway
Daniel Fish’s “Oklahoma!” in Los Angeles, Taylor Mac, Kiki and Herb and other tales of “Black Box to Broadway”. Essay #3 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venues.
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From Storefront to Stadium
That time I saw Nirvana in 1991. Or, what happens to an artist and their music on the journey from small clubs to stadiums and how are these experiences different? Essay #2 in a series about the unique power of live performance in small venues.
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Satori in a Storefront
That time I saw Kristen Kosmas in 1992 and it blew my mind. The first in a series of essays about the power of live performance in small rooms.
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The Theater(s)We Need Now
Okay. I wrote a really long discursive essay about The Theater(s) We Need Now – and I didn’t even dive too deep into the arts admin weeds – but I […]
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the single most remarkable work of 2022
600 Highwaymen’s “A Thousand Ways, Part 3: An Assembly” is one of 2022’s most remarkable works of theater.