Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Intiman's Board Clashes with Staff, Leaving the Theater's Future in the Air
Slog - The Stranger: Senior members of Intiman's board are in crisis mode. They're saying the theater is out of cash and needs to drastically reduce staff by the end of the month or else close soon in order to gracefully exit the scene. The staff is saying the theater is not in crisis mode. In fact, they've got a plan that would solve the immediate financial need and start the new year with a surplus. They just need the board to approve that plan. But the board isn't buying the plan and won't budge. Now nobody knows what will happen to the embattled, nearly 50-year-old institution, which this year finally dug itself out from under $2.7 million in debt and earned an arts award from the Mayor.
Peek Inside Three Major Costume Shops of Ballet, Broadway and Ballroom
Dance Magazine: In much the same way that choreography and performance create a storyline, costumes can transport an audience into a certain mood or time period with fabrics alone. Three costume departments gave us an inside look at how they prep for ballets, Broadway shows and performances on the road.
How Object Puppetry Confronts Climate Change
HowlRound Theatre Commons: I’m the artistic director of Glass Half Full Theatre in Austin, Texas. Our company creates new works of theatre using the precise physical language of both humans and puppets—through clowning and object puppetry, in which existing objects are manipulated as characters—to confront global issues of environmental and social justice and explore imaginative solutions. In 2018, we presented an original stage production called Polly Mermaid, Apocalypse Wow!, based on a “walk about” persona that Indigo Rael, a company member, had created. Polly, whose purpose is to help people rethink their interactions with “disposable” plastic, has been an in-demand persona at live events such as Earth Day ATX and the San Marcos Mermaid Festival, and even has a short film detailing her origin story.
Montgomery is 60% black, but local theater doesn't reflect this. ASF is changing that.
www.montgomeryadvertiser.com: When the Alabama Shakespeare Festival board asked Rick Dildine to join as artistic director in 2017 he researched every playwright the festival had hired in the past 45 years.
He was the director of a festival in St. Louis then, where he garnered praise for taking Shakespeare out of the theater and onto the city’s public streets; casting neighborhood residents alongside professional actors.
In Dildine’s words, a theater’s programming “is its destiny.” To him, theater is local. It builds community. And the stories projected from its stage matter.
Online Survey, from Behind the Scenes, to Help Develop a Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Initiative
Stage Directions: Behind the Scenes, in response to concerns about the rising number of suicides and the prevalence of alcohol/substance misuse within the entertainment industry, is beginning work on a Mental Health and Suicide Prevention initiative and wants to get a sense of how many people in the industry are experiencing anxiety, depression, thoughts of suicide, problems with alcohol/substance misuse, or reactions to traumatic events.
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