Thoughts From Executive Director, Martin Denton
This is a challenging time to be working in the theatre in the USA.
But even on the toughest days, I'm likely to get an email that reminds
me why NYTE does what it does. Like this one, from a young theatre
artist:
"There are times when doing this work gets really tough. Lack
of support, money, time... But having you out there is one of the things
that helps keep it going. "
For 12 years now, The New York Theatre
Experience, Inc. has been there for the entire New York theatre
community. On our website nytheatre.com and in our annual Plays and
Playwrights anthologies, we've been in the forefront of reviewing and
championing innovative, foundational theatre.
- For 175
American playwrights, we were the first to publish one of their works.
- For thousands of participants in the New York International
Fringe Festival every year, we are the only media outlet that says "yes,
we value your hard work" and acknowledge it with a review written by one
of their peers in the NYC theatre community.
- For hundreds of
thousands of readers—theatre practitioners and audience members—we
provide independent, hype-free coverage of the entire theatre scene here
in New York, from Staten Island to the Bronx and from Broadway to
Bushwick, from the big-budget star-filled spectacles to the scrappy,
lively, experimental work in theatre laboratories, incubators, and
festivals.
Please help us continue to provide the nurturing and
enthusiastic support that we've been bringing to theatre artists and
theatre lovers since 1999. Your tax-deductible donation will help us pay
for the technology that enables us to keep nytheatre.com on the air 365
days a year, 24 hours a day, and to bring the works of up-and-coming new
playwrights to your Kindle or iPad or Smartphone.
"Thank YOU. Really,
I'm in love with Latin theatre right now... omg! who knew! Thank you so
so much for being my introduction to it. Funny that Martin Denton would
be the man who would introduce me, an Hispanic, to my own theatre
history."
We don't employ fancy fundraising consultants or marketing
firms. Every dollar you contribute is applied directly to our programs
and services. Whatever you are able to give is urgently needed and
greatly appreciated.
We want to make sure that the vibrant, vital
indie theatre sector of American theatre gets the support it needs to
keep on growing: to keep on developing extraordinary new artists like
Josh Fox, a Plays and Playwrights alumnus who was nominated for an
Academy Award this year.
I'm leaving the final word to one of our
regular nytheatre.com readers:
"I've loved
nytheatre.com for years. Before I
moved to NY, I would come up 3-4 weekends a year to see shows and
nytheatre.com was an indispensible
guide. Last year I finally made the move to NY mainly so I could see
more theatre, and nytheatre.com
continues to be the site I visit most often. Which reminds me... it's
probably time I made another donation."
Thanks for reading this
far, and thanks in advance for making a contribution, in any dollar
amount, to The New York Theatre Experience, Inc. I'll keep in touch to
let you know what we're accomplishing. I hope you'll stay in touch as
well.