Sunday, March 17, 2019

Worth a Look

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

Arts Sector Contributed $763.6 Billion to U.S. Economy—More Than Agriculture or Transportation

Artsy: The arts and cultural sector contributed over $763.6 billion to the American economy in 2015—more than the agriculture, transportation, or warehousing sectors, according to new U.S. government data released Tuesday by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).


Richard Burbage: Shakespeare's leading man and the reason Hamlet was fat

theconversation.com: It’s 400 years since the death of Richard Burbage, the first person to play the roles of Hamlet, Lear, Othello and Macbeth in the original version of the Globe in London. As far as Shakespeare was concerned, Burbage was both a blessing and a curse. He was a good actor, and he seems to have been a particular draw for female audience members – an anecdote by the contemporary diarist John Manningham tells of a citizen’s wife who was so smitten after seeing Burbage play Richard III that she sent a note backstage to make an assignation, only for it to be intercepted by Shakespeare, who went off to the rendezvous himself with the remark that “William the Conqueror was before Richard the Third”.


Artists Temporarily Drop ‘Fortnite’ Lawsuits For Copyright Snag

Variety: With a recent US Supreme Court ruling that plaintiffs suing for copyright infringement must have their work registered with the US Copyright Office, several artists have put their lawsuits against Epic Games “Fortnite” dances on hold, according to a report from Law360 via law firm Pierce Bainbridge Beck Price & Hect.


TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD Faces New Litigation After Regional Shut Downs

www.broadwayworld.com: BroadwayWorld previously reported cancellations of a number of productions of the Christopher Sergel stage adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird, licensed by Dramatic Publishing, in the UK, Dayton OH, and Buffalo, amongst others across the US. According to the New York Times, president of Dramatic Publishing Company Christopher Sergel III, who also happens to be the grandson of the original adaptation's author, says he will be suing for damages.


The Revolution is Here and Now

HowlRound Theatre Commons: We’re at a critical point in the history of Roma movements in Europe. Day after day, we receive news of pogroms, killings, shootings, beatings, family separations, school segregations, rapes, and homophobic violence against our people all across the continent. The response from some Roma artists and writers is anger.

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