A Note from AC's Producing Artistic Director
July 1st : The day when we announce Arts Collective’s 17th season right here! We’re beyond excited to share with you AC’s most eclectic, imaginative, inspiring line-up yet! Check back on Friday!
In the meantime… we wanted to take a moment to celebrate last season; a tough act to follow, as AC’s 16th was our most successful to date! It was a season which included a plethora of firsts: a first subscription series, a summer partnership with Steppenwolf West, a first “mainstage” co-production (1001) and a first Student Playwright Showcase with HCC’s Theatre Arts Program, a first-time experience flying actors (Peter Pan), and a first summer production—A Midsummer Night’s Dream! AC’s 16th Season also broke many records with the number of audition opportunities offered and the overwhelming number of stellar actors, dancers and singers who came out and gave their all! AC’s still celebrating last season’s record-breaking, unprecedented audience attendance, which brought in approximately 1,500 more patrons than the year before!
We didn’t want to put AC’s 2010-2011 season to bed without taking a moment to extend armfuls of appreciation to everyone who participated on and off the stage… from the performers, crew, designers, stage managers, directors, choreographers and music directors to our supportive and enthusiastic patrons! Thank you all for always inspiring us to grow and evolve!
Susan G. Kramer, Producing Artistic Director, Arts Collective @HCC
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A Note on the Blog:
We here at AC have been toying with things for the last season, trying to figure out the best way to communicate with you, our wonderful extended family.
Which brings me to the big, awesome, blogosphere-changing news: we’re officially relaunching the blog with a snazzy new layout, new weekly features, video content, and more!
So just what can you expect from this blog to destroy all other blogs? Just in time for last season’s production of Peter Pan, we began to make a series of sweet video blogs (vlogs for my fellow nerds out there) that you can find here on our YouTube page, and found a lot of success with them. So expect lots more video content to be posted: from behind-the-scenes exclusives like interviews with cast, crew, and designers to show trailers and more.
What else can you look forward to? For this summer’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream we’ll have a weekly series of posts following the entire process from the first company meeting to the shows themselves, and everything in between. And of course, the blog will once again be your one-stop-shop for the latest AC news (like the announcement of our 17th Season and subscriptions, coming soon!), audition opportunities, workshops, and pretty much anything you’ll ever want or need to know about ANYTHING! (As long as it’s related to AC, that is. You’ll still have to go to your favorite trashy pop culture website to read about political scandals and view celebrity mug shots.)
In all seriousness, Arts Collective’s 17th season is going to be one to remember, and we want YOU to be a part of it! So keep on checking in with AC Bloggin’ and we promise to continue bringing you the exciting AC content you want.
Sincerely,
The Arts Collective Staff
P.S. - In the meantime, please find us on Facebook here, “Like” us, and then write on our page about your favorite AC productions and/or let us know what you want to see from AC in the future. You can also check out pictures and blog posts from past productions using the links on the right panel of this interweb page; view vlogs, past productions, and other fun videos on our YouTube page; and check out our ever-growing collection of pictures on our Flickr page.
