In his post, More About Making Great Work for Children, Jim wrote about how children are a great audience for live entertainment that isn’t being served well. He added: “One of the reasons that not enough of this content is being produced is that there’s a false assumption that if it’s ‘for’ children, it isn’t ‘for’ non-children.” New York’s Soho Rep is jumping into the children’s theater game with their first-ever all-ages production, Washeteria. “An all-ages audience shouldn’t be mutually …

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We posted about Diane Paulus (The Donkey Show, Pippin, Sleep No More) when she appeared at TEDxBroadway this year. In this profile of Paulus by Alexandra Wolfe in The Wall Street Journal, Paulus talks about the future of theater and explains why she thinks it’s heading toward even more boundary-blurring experiences. Paulus also knows a thing or two about audience engagement — at The Donkey Show at A.R.T. audience members could come back with a friend for free — and …

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