“I need cash” from Bridging the Gap, the Sequel

Laura M. Holson’s fine article, BRIDGING THE GAP, THE SEQUEL (April 15, 2008; New York Times online) describes the current divide between the mindsets of the entertainment industry and venture capitalists.

Ms. Holson relays a conversation between a Hollywood producer and Silicon Valley executive. The executive explained much of Silicon Valley’s wealth was created through stock options. Then the executive asked if the producer would consider accepting stock options instead of cash.

Quoting Holson’s article:

“The Hollywood producer remarked, “I fly a G4 (Gulfstream jet). How far do you think my G4 will go on stock options? I need cash.”

Perhaps this insight is an opportunity. Rather than front-load funding for audio drama projects, a longer term perspective may be ultimately be more successful.

Accepting options for equity in a company built around a portfolio of audio drama projects and related initiatives affords an opportunity to build a grander scale of success than any one project might deliver. Extending options in the company to key personnel focuses everyone’s energy on building the best entertainment proposition commercially and creatively possible.

Anyone have a number for Silicon Valley?

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L. A. Theatre Works: Dugout by Terry Allen on Saturday 15 March 2008

Today, Saturday, March 15 from 10 pm - midnight on 89.3 KPCC, L.A. Theatre Works‘ The Play’s the Thing will air Dugout starring Terry Allen, Jo Harvey Allen, Richard Bowden and Lloyd Maines.  Drawing upon his childhood memories of West Texas, artist, musician, and writer Terry Allen has created this magical, multi-layered tale in the tradition of Southern story-telling.  As Allen explains, “Dugout is a love story; an investigation into how memory is invented - a kind of Supernatural-Jazz-Sport-History-Ghost-Blood-Fiction.”  The broadcast includes a conversation with renowned art critic Dave Hickey from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

The Play’s the Thing

L.A. Theatre Works’ radio theater series, The Play’s the Thing, airs locally every Saturday night from 10 pm to midnight on 89.3 FM KPCC Southern California Public Radio, and is streamed on the KPCC website (www.kpcc.org) for one week following each broadcast.  The series can also be heard on 89.7 WGBH in Boston; 91.5 FM WBEZ in Chicago; 94.9 KUOW in Seattle; 93.5 FM KRTS “Marfa Public Radio” in Texas; 90.5 FM KUT in Austin; 88.9 FM KUNM in Albuquerque; 94.1 KPFA in Northern California; 91.1 FM KRCB in Sonoma County; 89.1 KUOR in Redlands; as well as on many other public radio stations nationwide and XM Satellite Radio.

Selected programs from LATW are also heard internationally over BBC World Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Telefis Eirann (Ireland), Radio Hong Kong, and Radio New Zealand.  The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection is available in bookstores, libraries, through their catalog, digitally on itunes, overdrive.com, audible.com, and on the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org.

On XM Satellite Radio, The Play’s the Thing now airs on Sonic Theater three times a week.  Each broadcast premieres on Friday evening at 8 pm eastern/5 pm pacific and repeats the following Monday in the same time slot.  On Wednesday, XM offers an encore performance of a previously-broadcast program.

To get a full schedule,  go to the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org and follow the link through the “Radio Theatre Series” heading and then “Episode Guide” or go directly to www.scpr.org for KPCC.

Additional Support

Additional support for the series is provided by AudioFile Magazine.  Listeners can visit their website at www.audiofilemagazine.com to view 65 reviews of LATW plays and hear sound clips from them.  The Beverly Hilton hotel is the official hotel for The Play’s the Thing.

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Anne Cammon: Vox Novus offers 60X60 Online Submission Process in ideablob Funding Competition

Robert Voisey, Founder of Vox Novus, which promotes contemporary music and its creators through concert performances, recordings, publishing, and publicity on radio and through the Internet, is competing for a $10,000 award from ideablob.

Vox Novus’ 60X60 Online Submission Process is the means for competing. The Online Submission Process creates an online file submission for compositions that will make the process of sending, receiving, sorting and filing submissions infinitely more manageable.

Voisey is competing with other entrepreneuers. Winners are determined by the number of votes received and the current competition is only until Friday 14 March.

60X60 Description

Quoting from the ideablob page: “The 60×60 project is a one hour concert containing 60 recorded works 60 seconds in length that is performed in venues through out the world, giving a great many composers the opportunity to have their work heard. The online submission engine will allow composers to upload their songs as .aiff and .wav files along with their biographies for the annual submission process rather than mailing them in, a time-consuming and expensive process. Judges from around the world will be able to listen to these works remotely in order to choose the semi-finalists for the final 60, who will be included in the 60×60 International Mix.”

http://ideablob.com/ideas/1758-60×60-online-submission-process

Vox Novus

Vox Novus produces and promotes new music. The company is dedicated to contemporary music, the musicians who perform, and the composers that write the music of today. Its mission is to cultivate a music community and make their work available to the greater public.

http://voxnovus.com/

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L. A. Theatre Works: An American Daughter by Wendy Wasserstein on Saturday 8 March 2008

Celebrating Women’s History Month, on Saturday, March 8 from 10 pm - midnight on 89.3 KPCC, L.A. Theatre Works’ The Play’s the Thing will air An American Daughter, starring Mary McDonnell, Gregory Itzin and Kevin McCarthy.  Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein spins a comic and moving tale about the pitfalls that await political appointees.  Dr. Lyssa Hughes is a respected health crusader, devoted wife and mother, and the perfect candidate for U.S. Surgeon Generaln - until a chance remark sets off a media feeding-frenzy.

Thanks to a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the first broadcast each month of The Play’s The Thing is a science-themed play. Next month (Saturday, March 1), the series continues with Secret Order  by Bob Clyman. Each play in the Relativity series is available for podcasting at www.kpcc.org for three months following the broadcast.

The Play’s the Thing

L.A. Theatre Works’ radio theater series, The Play’s the Thing, airs locally every Saturday night from 10 pm to midnight on 89.3 FM KPCC Southern California Public Radio, and is streamed on the KPCC website (www.kpcc.org) for one week following each broadcast.  The series can also be heard on 89.7 WGBH in Boston; 91.5 FM WBEZ in Chicago; 94.9 KUOW in Seattle; 93.5 FM KRTS “Marfa Public Radio” in Texas; 90.5 FM KUT in Austin; 88.9 FM KUNM in Albuquerque; 94.1 KPFA in Northern California; 91.1 FM KRCB in Sonoma County; 89.1 KUOR in Redlands; as well as on many other public radio stations nationwide and XM Satellite Radio.

Selected programs from LATW are also heard internationally over BBC World Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Telefis Eirann (Ireland), Radio Hong Kong, and Radio New Zealand.  The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection is available in bookstores, libraries, through their catalog, digitally on itunes, overdrive.com, audible.com, and on the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org.

On XM Satellite Radio, The Play’s the Thing now airs on Sonic Theater three times a week.  Each broadcast premieres on Friday evening at 8 pm eastern/5 pm pacific and repeats the following Monday in the same time slot.  On Wednesday, XM offers an encore performance of a previously-broadcast program.

To get a full schedule,  go to the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org and follow the link through the “Radio Theatre Series” heading and then “Episode Guide” or go directly to www.scpr.org for KPCC.

Additional Support

Additional support for the series is provided by AudioFile Magazine.  Listeners can visit their website at www.audiofilemagazine.com to view 65 reviews of LATW plays and hear sound clips from them.  The Beverly Hilton hotel is the official hotel for The Play’s the Thing.

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L. A. Theatre Works: Secret Order by Bob Clyman on Saturday 1 March 2008

This Saturday, March 1 from 10 pm - midnight on 89.3 KPCC, L.A. Theatre Works’ The Play’s the Thing continues its new Relativity science series with Secret Order by Bob Clyman, starring George Segal, Richard Schiff ,Will McCormack  and Angela Goethals.  In the high-stakes world of cancer research, Dr. William Shumway has just made a stunning breakthrough.  But is it really the long-sought cure for cancer? Despite the young scientist’s reservations, a senior mentor pressures him to trumpet his findings to the world.  Part medical drama, part suspense-filled thriller, Secret Order turns its microscope on bioethics, money and power. The broadcast includes an interview with Professor Harvey R. Herschman. Director for Basic Research, Johnsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA.

Thanks to a grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the first broadcast each month of The Play’s The Thing is a science-themed play. Next month (Saturday, March 1), the series continues with Secret Order  by Bob Clyman. Each play in the Relativity series is available for podcasting at www.kpcc.org for three months following the broadcast.

The Play’s the Thing

L.A. Theatre Works’ radio theater series, The Play’s the Thing, airs locally every Saturday night from 10 pm to midnight on 89.3 FM KPCC Southern California Public Radio, and is streamed on the KPCC website (www.kpcc.org) for one week following each broadcast.  The series can also be heard on 89.7 WGBH in Boston; 91.5 FM WBEZ in Chicago; 94.9 KUOW in Seattle; 93.5 FM KRTS “Marfa Public Radio” in Texas; 90.5 FM KUT in Austin; 88.9 FM KUNM in Albuquerque; 94.1 KPFA in Northern California; 91.1 FM KRCB in Sonoma County; 89.1 KUOR in Redlands; as well as on many other public radio stations nationwide and XM Satellite Radio.

Selected programs from LATW are also heard internationally over BBC World Service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Telefis Eirann (Ireland), Radio Hong Kong, and Radio New Zealand.  The L.A. Theatre Works Audio Theatre Collection is available in bookstores, libraries, through their catalog, digitally on itunes, overdrive.com, audible.com, and on the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org.

On XM Satellite Radio, The Play’s the Thing now airs on Sonic Theater three times a week.  Each broadcast premieres on Friday evening at 8 pm eastern/5 pm pacific and repeats the following Monday in the same time slot.  On Wednesday, XM offers an encore performance of a previously-broadcast program.

To get a full schedule,  go to the L.A. Theatre Works website at www.latw.org and follow the link through the “Radio Theatre Series” heading and then “Episode Guide” or go directly to www.scpr.org for KPCC.

Additional Support

Additional support for the series is provided by AudioFile Magazine.  Listeners can visit their website at www.audiofilemagazine.com to view 65 reviews of LATW plays and hear sound clips from them.  The Beverly Hilton hotel is the official hotel for The Play’s the Thing.

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