Here are a few articles from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Theater workers, let's reject 'happy just to be here'
Datebook: In my coverage of Stephen Buescher’s racial discrimination lawsuit against American Conservatory Theater — which has now been settled — one line has stood out to me.
“There’s this feeling of … ‘You know what, you should just be happy that you’re here,’ ”
Women designers make it work onstage
Theater Preview | Chicago Reader: Roughly 15 or so years ago, the Jeff Committee called in a trio of cis-male set/light/sound designers to give members an overview of their work. As the presentation wound down, the men took questions. The question I remember (because as a then-member of the committee, I asked it) was whether women were represented to any significant degree among designers and if not, why not. The answer—a slightly awkward and quite vague "Well, not really . . . because there just aren't"—was as dismal as it was memorable.
Photos from Burning Man 2019 Showcasing the Amazingly Creative Event
mymodernmet.com: With Labor Day now past, another Burning Man has concluded. Black Rock City, the temporary site of the annual event in the northwest Nevada desert, was host to 70,000 participants from August 25 to September 2. Burning Man has a new theme every year, and for 2019 it was Metamorphoses—an idea intended as a “celebration of change and an exploration of uncertainty” and an “embrace of the elusive now.” To express the concept, there was an amazing collection of sculptures and, of course, festival fashion.
Bridging the State of the Art
Theatre Design & Technology - Summer 2019: At the birth of the modern era of high-tech show production in the 1980s, most entertainment technology training was theatre-focused and taught in conservatories. At that time, this made sense because the world of shows was a lot simpler.
If not now, when?: Falsettogate, and what it teaches us about meaningful minority inclusion
Exeunt Magazine: Falsettos, a 1992 musical by William Finn and James Lapine, is an incredibly Jewish musical. It opens with a song called “Four Jews In A Room Bitching” and takes place in the run up to a Bar mitzvah. It became apparent that none of the creative team or cast in this London revival were Jewish. We were concerned.
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