As the current US Presidential election season (which has had moments of being anything but “Presidential”) continues, my Twitter and Facebook feeds are full of blurbs and articles championing candidates or deriding strangers. This post, and OffStageJobs.com, will not endorse…
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A post I really shouldn’t need to write…
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…but here we are. From the beginning of OffStageJobs.com, I have received emails from people asking that I not post jobs from particular companies, or listings that do not offer pay, or pay below an (arguably arbitrary) threshold. And from…
On Twitter and anonymous accounts
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As some/many/most of you know, OffStageJobs.com has a Twitter account: @OffStageJobs. Its name changed with the site name change, but like the site, everything else stayed the same. On the account, I tweet about things I think might interest the…
112 years later, & lessons still not learned: Lest we forget…
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“…and for months to come children of all ages (among the noble army of which one is glad to be enrolled) will flock to see Mr. Bluebeard, and will find a satisfying and after all a quite legitimate joy in…
Fire Safety: It’s always a series of problems, not just one.
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This article was originally posted on our old blog Dec. 14, 2010. It has been updated to reflect changes that have occurred since then. Many times I hear the complaint that the fire codes “go overboard” in all their requirements. …
“Fire. The flies are on fire.”
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This article was originally posted on our old blog on Dec 5, 2008. It has been updated to reflect changes since that time. 137 years ago today, fire struck the Brooklyn Theatre in Brooklyn, NY during a performance of The…
Share your “haunted theatre” stories!
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Theatres are great places for ghosts. They’re dark, lots of shadows, lots of hiding places, lots of mysterious noises, they’re full of energy from those onstage and in the house, and we are predisposed to keeping our imagination engaged while…
A new thing to help you get through the day.
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Tired of waiting for your one #theatrehoroscope per day to appear on Twitter? Now you can get your #theatrehoroscope at any time!
A long two months
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You may have noticed a lack of posts here, as well as a reduction in tweets, and a long time in responding to emails. Well, to paraphrase the old joke: Tech is a hell of a drug. Lots of tech…
Well, that’s just cool
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With the changing of BackstageJobs.com to OffStageJobs.com, I’ve been contacting websites that are linking to our old name, and telling them to update those links to our new name. In the process of doing that, I discovered this: The…