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		<title>Promoting Past and Current Seasons</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 13:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article appeared in the August 29, 2011 edition of  The New Britain Herald. I wrote it as Executive Director of New Britain Youth Theater to highlight past season accomplishments and promote the coming season. Happy New Year! No, I’m not four months early or eight months late. It is an odd month for New [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=darrenfarrington.com&amp;blog=1446125&amp;post=196&amp;subd=darrenfarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2010: The Year in Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 03:03:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I haven’t quite made good on updating this blog more frequently. But I haven’t let two years pass again either, so this isn’t so bad. The year 2010 brought a few changes for me. Rather than working on several consulting projects, one project has become nearly full time for me.  In February, I became involved [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=darrenfarrington.com&amp;blog=1446125&amp;post=187&amp;subd=darrenfarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media Success Story</title>
		<link>http://darrenfarrington.com/2010/09/20/social-media-success-story/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you on Facebook? On Twitter? Are you promoting your career or business online? Don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s worth it? Think again. Anyone who questions whether marketing through social media is worth the effort should read this. It&#8217;s the story of an independently-made children&#8217;s music album which rose to NUMBER ONE on iTunes by finding its [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=darrenfarrington.com&amp;blog=1446125&amp;post=170&amp;subd=darrenfarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to School</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow! Just wow! It&#8217;s been nearly two years since I&#8217;ve posted a new blog entry on this website. I&#8217;d like to report that I&#8217;ve been on tour—maybe producing the complete works of William Shakespeare, or the complete works of Eugene O&#8217;Neill. Heck, even the complete works of Rodgers &#38; Hammerstein. But even on tour I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=darrenfarrington.com&amp;blog=1446125&amp;post=146&amp;subd=darrenfarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reconstruction</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:54:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://darrenfarrington.com/?p=134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, I&#8217;m not going post-Civil War historiography on you. (Although I did write a high school history report on that time period, so I know something about it. The teacher for that class just showed up as someone I may know on Facebook, by the way. How&#8217;s that for web 2.0?) This website has been [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=darrenfarrington.com&amp;blog=1446125&amp;post=134&amp;subd=darrenfarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Could This Be a Good Time for Fundraising? Surviving the Financial Crisis</title>
		<link>http://darrenfarrington.com/2008/10/15/could-this-be-a-good-time-for-fundraising-surviving-the-financial-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 12:15:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are jobs that are recession proof—teaching, health care, some technology, undertakers.  Their work will continue despite a downturn—a severe downturn—in the economy.  And then there’s us.  When money is tight, entertainment budgets are often the first to go.  So there go ticket sales. Unfortunately, a bad economy doesn’t just affect ticket buyers.  Corporate sponsors, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=darrenfarrington.com&amp;blog=1446125&amp;post=25&amp;subd=darrenfarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The World Is Their Stage</title>
		<link>http://darrenfarrington.com/2008/09/15/the-world-is-their-stage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://darrenfarrington.com/2008/09/01/the-world-is-their-stage/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A blogger who recently learned that I work in theater asked me to write a post answering the question “Why is it important to introduce children to theater?” I thought that was pretty topical since kids recently returned to school.  It’s also topical since I recently started working with a children’s theater company.  Here’s the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=darrenfarrington.com&amp;blog=1446125&amp;post=24&amp;subd=darrenfarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Should a Script Be Changed for Its Audience?  Not Without Permission</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 23:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, Tom Grisamore made national theater news. He isn’t an actor, director, designer or theater artist of any kind. He’s an administrator—and a parks department administrator at that. Grisamore, the Park District Executive Director in Wilmette, Illinois, recently canceled an outdoor community production of the musical Ragtime because he learned—several weeks into rehearsals and just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=darrenfarrington.com&amp;blog=1446125&amp;post=23&amp;subd=darrenfarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Does the Employee Manual Say?</title>
		<link>http://darrenfarrington.com/2008/07/15/what-does-the-employee-manual-say/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:56:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year, I needed to spend many days dedicated to my family.  My mother was hospitalized and later passed away.  In the following weeks, I had to sort through her belongings, empty her home, and administer her estate.  As anyone who has dealt with a death in the family knows, these jobs can go [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=darrenfarrington.com&amp;blog=1446125&amp;post=22&amp;subd=darrenfarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Theater…</title>
		<link>http://darrenfarrington.com/2008/02/15/everything-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-theater%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 12:21:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darren</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, I don’t know everything there is to know about theater. But I do know where to find answers. You do too—because you’re already there. When I first worked in professional theater about seventeen years ago, every production management office had some form of a resource guide. These guides listed leads for finding everything from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=darrenfarrington.com&amp;blog=1446125&amp;post=19&amp;subd=darrenfarrington&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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