Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Worth a Look

This weeks postings from the Greenpage that are worth your time:

Jujamcyn Names Jordan Roth President, Signaling a Broadway Youth Trend

NYTimes.com: "Ushering in a new generation of Broadway power brokers, Jordan Roth, a 33-year-old producer, finalized a deal on Tuesday to buy a stake in and to lead Jujamcyn Theaters, one of the theater district’s biggest landlords."

Open Letter to Rocco Landesman

100k: "First of all, allow me to congratulate you on being confirmed as the new Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. Over the past 18 months, I have had the pleasure of working closely with Mr. Bill O’Brien and Ms. Carol Lanoux Lee in the Theatre Program, both of who have been encouraging, helpful, and inspirational."

Top 10 Apps for Scheduling a Meeting Online

The Best Article Every day: "Meetings suck. But if there’s one thing worse than meetings, it’s playing email tag to schedule them. Is your company still sending out mass emails to ask for preferred meeting times? It’s the pits, isn’t it? Yes, Outlook has a hack whereby you can solicit responses for scheduling, but it’s not much of an improvement. There’s a better way, and it’s a ridiculously simple concept. A Web app lets you pick a range of dates on a calendar and then notify your colleagues so they can pick the times and dates that work for them. You then view the responses and you’re done."

Irish & Classical Theatre boils down 'Crime and Punishment'

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: "In a world saturated with information, says Matthew Gray, the survivors are those who are good at editing.
He's demonstrating that belief as the director of Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre's production of 'Crime and Punishment,' which begins performances today.
Marilyn Campbell and Curt Columbus' live stage adaptation distills this complex tale and its contest between two minds into an 80-minute drama enacted by three actors."

Do Health Insurance and Self-employment Mix?

Web Worker Daily: "In my Labor Day post, I talked about the importance of web workers advocating for ourselves, and why it is necessary. One of the topics for advocacy that is on everyone’s mind right now (at least in the U.S.) is healthcare, or more particularly health insurance. This topic is of special interest to the segment of web workers who are self-employed or work freelance."

Apple Tree Theatre falls

The Theater Loop: "After 26 years of productions on Chicago's North Shore and 40 years of educational programs, Apple Tree Theatre's board of directors plans to release a note Monday saying the theater is going out of business, effective immediately.
In the note, Apple Tree says its doors will close, with the entire 2009-10 season canceled."

Race, the Subject We Can’t Stop Talking About

NYTimes.com: "PRESIDENT OBAMA, like his predecessor President Bill Clinton, has suggested that this country engage in a dialogue about race."

But what has our 230-year national experience been but a dialogue about race?

Our earliest drama on the subject, “Metamora,” by John Stone (1829), concerns the relations between the Massachusetts settlers and Prince Philip of the Wampanoags. So does the novel “Hope Leslie” by Catherine Sedgwick (1827).

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