Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Photo Captures Everyone Who Helped Restore the Notre Dame
mymodernmet.com: It’s been five years since a devastating fire heavily damaged the famed Notre-Dame cathedral, and now the Parisian landmark is finally about to reopen. Tourists and locals have long been waiting for the beloved church to return to its former splendor—something that couldn't have been achieved without hundreds of workers. To truly capture all the effort that went into this project, French president Emmanuel Macron shared a photo showing all the people involved in the restoration of Notre-Dame.
Fleetwood Mac Producer Settles Lawsuit Over Broadway's ‘Stereophonic’
www.billboard.com: The creators of the hit Broadway play Stereophonic have reached a settlement to resolve a copyright lawsuit claiming they stole elements of the show from a memoir about the infamous recording of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours.
IATSE Joins Workplace Misconduct Reporting Platform MyConnext
www.hollywoodreporter.com: Starting Tuesday, the crew union IATSE is offering the tool to some 85,000 U.S. members who work across television, film and commercials. MyConnext, created to address calls in industry surveys for a tool to record bad behavior in the workplace, provides users with a means to log these experiences with a timestamp for their own personal use, with employers and/or their unions.
Viewpoint: Pittsburgh needs to step up for the performing arts
Pittsburgh Business Times: One of the best-kept secrets in Pittsburgh – though ironically not among the rest of the national or global performing arts scene – is the extent to which our region punches far above its weight as a haven of theater, music and dance. Ask any professional performer who makes a stop here, and they’ll tell you. Our venues, our talent, our education programs and our productions rank just a tick behind New York, Los Angeles and Chicago in their renown, amazing given that our population is only a fraction of theirs.
How Do You Manage?
AMERICAN THEATRE: In November 2022, Lisa Smith was weighing whether to continue stage managing or to scale up her part-time job at a gardening center into a full-time gig. She’d been stage managing in the Twin Cities for 20 years, 15 of those as a member of Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), when the forced break of the pandemic reminded her what a full night’s sleep felt like. When theatres opened again and she returned to stage management, she grew wary of some companies’ plans for reopening and their failure to create contingency plans for any personnel but performers. Understudies are great—but what happens if the stage manager gets Covid and there is no backup?
