Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Tony Voters Will Be Required to Complete Unconscious Bias Training Course
www.broadwayworld.com: BroadwayWorld has learned that Tony voters will be required to complete unconscious bias training beginning this season. Members of the Tony Awards voting committee will take a free, online training session, led by inclusion strategist Vernā Myers, which will teach them how to identify unconscious or implicit bias in their decision-making processes and how to correct it.
Significant shortages and delays put live events at risk
Event Industry News: PLASA, the lead association for the entertainment technology industry, and #WeMakeEvents, the global campaign to save live events, have published a detailed global survey report on the current position and future recovery of the live events industry.
Peter Dinklage Slams Disney's 'Snow White' Remake
www.themarysue.com: Peter Dinklage blasted Disney’s planned remake of Snow White in a new interview on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. The Game of Thrones actor said, “There’s a lot of hypocrisy going on … Literally no offense to anyone, but I was a little taken aback when they were very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White. But you’re still telling the story of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.’ Take a step back and look at what you’re doing there. It makes no sense to me.”
Talking to the director about this radical 'Oklahoma!'
Chicago Tribune: Many readers have written in with their thoughts about the radical touring production of the 2018 Broadway revival of “Oklahoma!,” playing at the CIBC Theater in Chicago through Sunday. As I wrote in my review, this version of the seminal Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical strays from the show’s reputation as a hearty work of Americana — anyone heading out to see it should know it mostly does not deliver a feel-good experience, especially in its most radical last few minutes.
72 hours of unpaid work? 'Unacceptable,' say dancers and critics of Super Bowl halftime show
Los Angeles Times: Hundreds of excited “fans” will pour onto the field while hip-hop dream team Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar perform during the Super Bowl LVI halftime show on Feb. 13. Viewers will probably see them move their bodies to the music. What they won’t see are the 72 hours they spent over nine days in unpaid rehearsals lasting as long as nine hours a stretch — and how they were asked to provide their own transportation and adhere to a strict confidentiality protocol.
