Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Lynn Nottage, Clint Ramos, and More Call for the End of 10 out of 12s
thebroadwayblog.com: Prominent theater artists are calling for the end of 10 out of 12s, a shorthand that describes the theater workdays during tech, which have traditionally consisted of a 12-hour work day, six days a week, with only a two-hour break each day. Such long workweeks, with only one day off, have made it more difficult for theater artists and technicians who are also parents, those who live farther away from the theater, and others.
Theatre in UK faces exodus of women after pandemic, study finds
Theatre | The Guardian: Leading women in British theatre have expressed concern that cash-strapped theatres could prioritise staging “safe” work by men and face an exodus of female talent if urgent action is not taken to support women after the pandemic.
Philly’s Protect the Artist protestors take…
Broad Street Review: If the Walnut Street Theatre (WST) hoped to quell public criticism of its hiring practices and failure to live up to its own Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) statement with Wednesday night’s season opener, Beehive: The 60s Musical, it failed. Let’s get one thing out of the way: this is not a proper review of Larry Gallagher’s condescending, passé 1986 revue, though some discussion of it necessarily figures in.
Bay Area theater artists who called out discrimination find that as some doors close, others open
Datebook: The first rule of theater is you don’t speak out against theater, but no one has to say that rule out loud. Every ingenue crowding into an audition room, every playwright lobbing a script into the void, every college grad applying for the privilege of an unpaid internship can tell that if you get branded as difficult, there are plenty of others eager to take your place. Speak out loudly enough, and you might never work again.
‘Slave Play’ Back On Track For Los Angeles Production
Deadline: Slave Play will arrive in Los Angeles after all. Playwright Jeremy O. Harris announced last night that his Tony-nominated comedy-drama will remain on the line-up at Center Theatre Group’s Mark Taper Forum in light of commitments made by the venue to expand opportunities there for women, trans and non-binary artists.
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