Here are a few posts from last weeks Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Dear Hollywood: We Don’t Want to “Go Back to Normal." Normal Wasn’t Working.
optimizeyourself.me: Dear Hollywood, I have something I desperately need to share with you. You might find it surprising coming from a 20-year veteran who owes his livelihood to you. But it needs to be said. I apologize if this upsets you (actually…sorry not sorry).
Your shows are not worth dying for.
The Solution to Exploitation in the Theater: Join a Union
medium.com/@mferraro678: In recent weeks, a topic that has long simmered under the surface of the theater industry has once again come to the fore — the exploitation of non-union actors by theater companies. One prominent company in New York City that I’ve seen a lot written about is the Flea Theater, whose resident company of “BATS” did many years of unpaid work. The theater cried poverty, only to subsequently open a new multi-million dollar space, while the administrators and directors of the company were, themselves, making decent (if not extravagant) salaries and enjoying the power and perks of high-level jobs in New York theater.
IATSE Leaders, Acknowledging Union’s Own Role In Perpetuating “Systemic Racism” In Legit Theater, Call For Industrywide Action
Deadline: Leaders of IATSE, which represents thousands of theatrical stage workers across the country, today acknowledged the union’s role in failing to upend “systemic racism in the arts and entertainment industry.” Calling for industrywide action, they vowed to do the “hard work” needed to “create real, lasting change.”
Are the Blue Men ever coming back? Chicago’s commercial theaters are in serious trouble.
Chicago Tribune: Indoor gatherings of more than 50 people remain banned in Illinois and there is still no discernible, let alone bankable, timeline for the return of large-scale live entertainment. COVID-19 has created a world of pain for all sectors of the Chicago theater.
Notably, the city’s commercial, for-profit operations are showing the most immediate and visible stress.
We’ve Seen White American Theatre
HowlRound Theatre Commons: The debt that is owed to the Black artists, thinkers, and intellectuals by we non-Black Americans of color is so immense and multilayered it cannot be quantified. They have given us the language of revolution, integrated all-white institutions, and modeled how to rise to the apex of power in America. Overwhelmingly, Black pioneers have embraced and accepted other people of color as allies, all while knowing they bear the brunt of both microaggressions in artistic spaces and the murderous violence necessary to keep a racist society in place. Especially when we keep our little mouths shut.
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