Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
A new labor battle opens on Broadway as omicron closes shows
www.cnbc.com: After over a year of industry-wide closures, Broadway theaters finally reopened in September, but 2021 did not end the way theater professionals hoped it would. The late 2021 comeback had largely bucked London’s touch-and-go reopening earlier that summer: only a handful of Broadway productions temporarily closed due to delta infections.
Actors' Equity Association Celebrates Seventh Annual National Swing Day
www.broadwayworld.com: Actors' Equity Association, the national labor union representing more than 51,000 professional actors and stage managers in live theatre, celebrates its seventh annual Swing Day today, Wednesday, January 19, 2022, honoring the hard-working performers who go onstage, sometimes at a moment's notice, for multiple roles.
Canceled last year, Chicago International Puppet Theater Festival returns
Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago is a puppet town. Or was. Not only did the word “puppeteer” first see print here in 1915, but perhaps the most influential puppet show in American history, Burr Tillstrom’s “Kukla, Fran and Ollie,” debuted on TV here in 1947. It not only got parents buying televisions en masse, but — my own pet theory — the funny, ad-libbed program helped spawn Chicago’s live improv comedy scene in the 1950s.
New museum aims to showcase history of creative labor by actors of color
PBS NewsHour: The Academy of Motion Pictures is best known for the Oscars, and for the controversy in recent years about the lack of diversity in its ranks and awards. Now the organization has opened a new museum in Los Angeles — said to be the largest in North America devoted to the art of filmmaking. Jeffrey Brown took a tour with one of its leaders for our arts and culture series, CANVAS.
Letters: Talkback Pushback
AMERICAN THEATRE: In a recent article for American Theatre, dramaturg Jenna Clark Embrey asks, “Why are talkbacks so disliked among those of us within the industry? It’s not a stretch to see why: Talkbacks are a demand on our time and spirit, they give space for rude and harmful comments from audience members, and they ask that we distill a nuanced and sprawling artistic process down into 20-minute chats. It’s a fair question to ask, then: Why do we keep doing them?”
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