Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
No, LA Stage Alliance Didn’t Fold Over a Single Anti-Asian Blunder
AMERICAN THEATRE: Asian American invisibility in the theatre can take many forms. It can mean having your story exoticized by someone else (Miss Saigon). It can manifest as actors who don’t share your skin performing a yellowface caricature of you onstage (The Mikado). Or it can come in the form of an awards ceremony fiasco like the one in Los Angeles last week, which, if you only believed the national headlines you read, single-handedly caused the disbanding of a 46-year-old theatrical institution. The truth is far more complicated.
Broadway Reopened. For 36 Minutes. It’s a Start.
The Seattle Times: Three hundred and eighty-seven days after Broadway went dark, a faint light started to glimmer Saturday. There were just two performers — one at a time — on a bare Broadway stage. But together they conjured up decades of theater lore, invoking the songs and shows and stars that once filled the grand houses in and around Times Square.
Actors Equity Association Releases Detailed List of New COVID Safety Protocols
www.broadwayworld.com: Today, Actors Equity Association is taking major steps to get performers working again. "Today, I'm pleased to announce Equity is adding safety guidance for fully vaccinated workplaces to the resources for producers available on our website," writes Executive Director, Mary McColl. "Equity employers on collective bargaining agreements can use this guidance to streamline return to work protocols when everyone in the workplace is vaccinated. Like all of our COVID safety guidance, we will review and update this guidance as the science dictates.
Jimmy Fallon, Addison Rae, and the Issue of TikTok Dance Credit
The Theatre Times: On March 26, 2021, ultra-famous TikTok star Addison Rae Easterling appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. During her visit, she performed popular TikTok dance trends during one of the show’s recurring segments in which (white) TikTokers teach Jimmy Fallon trending dances (mostly) created by Black teens on the increasingly popular social media platform.
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Broadway’s Jagged Little Journey Toward Nonbinary Inclusion
The Brooklyn Rail: Take a second and try to make a list of all the nonbinary characters in musical theater. It won’t take long to realize there isn’t much of a list. While there have been a few nonbinary performers on Broadway and several roles have been played by actors whose gender does not match their characters’, there’s only been one character I know of explicitly written as nonbinary: Pythio in Head Over Heels.
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