Monday, September 25, 2017

Worth a Look

Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...

In Houston, a Theater Finds Itself Offstage After Harvey

WSJ: Dean Gladden breathed a sigh of relief two years ago when a $46.5 million renovation of the Alley Theatre, the first major improvement in the Tony Award-winning theater’s five-decade history, was finally completed.

Standing in the theater’s flood-damaged, putrid-smelling basement almost two weeks after Hurricane Harvey dumped trillions of gallons of rain on the nation’s fourth largest city, Mr. Gladden was almost breathless.


Report Reveals ‘Class-Shaped Hole’ in UK Acting Industry

Backstage: Tracy Brabin has been Member of Parliament for Batley and Spen in West Yorkshire since 2016 after a by-election triggered by the murder of Jo Cox. She considers herself part of “the exciting influx of Labour MPs in the last year, most of whom have done other jobs”. Tracy’s other job was as an actor, coming to the Labour Party after a 20 year career; breaking through in the 1989 comedy-drama “A Bit of a Do”, becoming a regular in “Coronation Street”, “Emmerdale” and “Eastenders” and later writing for “Tracey Beaker”, “Heartbeat” and “Shameless”. Last month the results of her and fellow MP Gloria de Piero’s inquiry into access and diversity in the acting industry were published, evidencing what many have known for some time: “There is a class-shaped hole in the industry”.


Netflix Ends Unauthorized 'Stranger Things' Bar With A Super Classy Letter

Logan Square - Chicago - DNAinfo: We've got bad news for anyone who assumed the wildly popular "Stranger Things" pop-up bar would get an extended run.

Netflix won't let the Logan Square venue at 2367 N. Milwaukee Ave. stay open past the six-week mark.


Adam Beach on Hollywood's Erasure of Native Actors

Colorlines: Adam Beach (“Suicide Squad”), one of the country’s most recognizable Native thespians, understands just how often Indigenous narratives are Whitewashed. He denounces this ongoing erasure—which is connected to a centuries-long legacy of genocide and forced assimilation whose remnants still threaten Native communities


Amber Tamblyn: I’m Done With Not Being Believed

The New York Times: When I was 21, I went into the office of a producer of the television show I was starring in to discuss a big problem. By this point I had been acting for more than a decade, and the show was very successful and beloved. Still, I was nervous about facing the firing squad of Emmys that sat behind him and saying what I had to say.

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