There are no bad ideas: February 2022

Sunday, February 27, 2022

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Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be wroth your time...

Ukrainian Film Producer Who Fled Kyiv Fears She’ll Never Return Home: ‘Nobody Knows What’s Next’

www.thewrap.com: Darya Bassel, a Ukrainian film producer and a programmer with the country’s largest documentary film festival, fears she may have left her home in Kyiv for the last time after fleeing the city earlier on Thursday, hours after Russia invaded the country.
Posted by David at 2/25/2022 09:52:00 AM

What’s Gender Got to Do With Acting Awards?

AMERICAN THEATRE?: Awards ceremonies are thorny, polarizing beasts. The very idea of giving out awards for art can seem like a direct contradiction of what art is meant to be. What is the value in singling out artists and their work? And why is it that performers are almost always singled out along the gender binary?
Posted by David at 2/25/2022 09:49:00 AM

Broadway's 'Paradise Square' is a 'nightmare' behind the scenes

nypost.com: There’s trouble in “Paradise.” The cast of the new Broadway musical “Paradise Square” was instructed by their union, Actors Equity, not to show up to rehearsal on Monday, multiple sources told The Post. And it wasn’t so producer Garth Drabinsky could give his 40-strong ensemble some Presidents’ Day relaxation.
Posted by David at 2/25/2022 09:53:00 AM

US Copyright Office Gets It Right (Again): AI-Generated Works Do Not Get A Copyright Monopoly

Techdirt: For years, throughout the entire monkey selfie lawsuit saga, we kept noting that the real reason a prestigious law firm like Irell & Manella filed such a patently bogus lawsuit was to position itself to be the go-to law firm to argue for AI-generated works deserving copyright. However, we've always argued that AI-generated works are (somewhat obviously) in the public domain, and get no copyright.
Posted by David at 2/23/2022 09:29:00 AM

After controversy, change, Suzi Bass Awards to honor Atlanta theater again

ARTS ATL: Two years after a controversy-stirring choice to not announce nominees for the 2019-2020 theater season, the Suzi Bass Awards are back to their practice of adjudicating productions, albeit with new eligibility requirements. The decision by Suzi Awards leaders to step back and make internal adjustments, spurred in large part by a push for equity, created tension within the organization and caused several judges to resign.
Posted by David at 2/24/2022 10:09:00 AM

Friday, February 25, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, February 20, 2022

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Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...

Amazon Studios Rolling Out Diversity Playbook in Europe and Globally

Variety: The Amazon Studios Inclusion Policy and Playbook released last June in the U.S. is reverberating in the streaming giant’s productions around the world.
Posted by David at 2/15/2022 09:37:00 AM

Casting Roles with Nudity: Body Checks and Why They Never Should Have Existed

HowlRound Theatre Commons: In the spring of 2021, the final semester of my undergraduate acting program, we had a routine Q&A session with a prominent casting director in Los Angeles to prepare for our end-of-the-year showcase. I, an emerging intimacy director, asked him about his experience with intimacy in the industry and what he knew of the professional casting process when the role involved nudity. To my dismay, he began to explain what he referred to as “body checks” that were performed at callbacks.
Posted by David at 2/18/2022 09:27:00 AM

Hath Not a Jew Roles? A Case for Authentic Jewish Casting

AMERICAN THEATRE: My first full-length play to be produced in New York City was called A Shylock. It was about Shakespeare, and it was about anti-Semitism. The lead, a character named Jack Levy, was played by a talented actor who still frequently works with me, 25 years later. As it happens, he is not Jewish. At the time I thought nothing of it.
Posted by David at 2/18/2022 09:27:00 AM

Mexico’s cultural appropriation ban is off to a messy start

The Verge: TheThe first embroidery stitch María Méndez Rodríguez learned at the age of 7 was the chain stitch. It’s the same one that, years later, she would teach to her seven children. At 42, Méndez has mastered advanced stitches like the closed buttonhole and rococo. She’s now diving back into the drawing process, trying to evolve from the traditional motifs of flowers and leaves she embroiders on blouses to better reflect the flora in her community.
Posted by David at 2/14/2022 09:49:00 AM

Why the Rust Shooting Didn’t Change Hollywood

The Atlantic: For more than 30 years, Bill Davis’s job has been to help famous people look like they know what they’re doing with a gun. As an armorer working in Hollywood, Davis teaches movie stars how to properly handle firearms, and some are fast learners: He helped train Tom Cruise on the set of the film Collateral and walked away impressed with the actor’s form. Others require a little more instruction; Davis said he once had to scold Danny Glover for pulling the trigger too early during a scene in Saw.
Posted by David at 2/18/2022 09:29:00 AM

Friday, February 18, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, February 13, 2022

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Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...

Data Leak Reveals Resilience, Inequity Of Broadway’s Reopening

www.forbes.com: After months of well-intentioned obfuscation, the complete sales data of Broadway’s reopening has been made public through a series of leaks. The Broadway League trade organization distributed the data to members in January, after having withheld it throughout the autumn, releasing only aggregate weekly totals. The full show-by-show numbers now paint a clear picture of everything that was running from September to early December, and how they all weathered reopening after 18 months of darkness.
Posted by David at 2/08/2022 09:35:00 AM

'World's largest 8K UHD LED display' opens Winter Olympics

www.avinteractive.com: The world’s largest 8K UHD LED floor display, with an overall area of 10,393 sq m, has played a key role at the Beijing Winter Olympics, illuminating the stage floor of the games’ opening ceremony. The LED stage was supplied by Leyard International which worked with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and director Zhang Yimou on the giant project.
Posted by David at 2/09/2022 10:34:00 AM

IATSE Releases Updated Federal Legislative Priorities for 2022

IATSE: The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) released today its updated federal legislative priorities for the second session of the 117th United States Congress. The IATSE Federal Issue Agenda highlights the core issues facing behind-the-scenes workers employed throughout the U.S. entertainment industry and conveys the union’s federal policy priorities to elected officials.
Posted by David at 2/08/2022 09:40:00 AM

Walk with Amal: The Five-Thousand-Mile-Long Theatrical Provocation

HowlRound Theatre Commons: There are some, no doubt, in the United Kingdom’s media and across the European continent who rolled their eyes at the idea of the Walk with Amal project (WWA). It was quite possibly the world’s largest theatre festival which saw a 12-foot-high puppet refugee girl walk the refugee corridor from Turkey to the United Kingdom, passing through 8 countries and making around 140 stopovers in towns and villages along the way.
Posted by David at 2/08/2022 09:39:00 AM

Jim Kenyon: Scant pay may have backfired on Northern Stage

Valley News: When the bigwigs at Northern Stage say the law doesn’t apply to their professional theater company in downtown White River Junction, it’s not just an act. Shortly before Christmas, Northern Stage informed five female employees at its state-of-the-art $9 million theater that even though Vermont’s hourly minimum wage was about to increase to $12.55, they wouldn’t benefit from the law change, which went into effect Jan. 1.
Posted by David at 2/10/2022 09:33:00 AM

There are no bad ideas

Sunday, February 27, 2022

Worth a Look

Ukrainian Film Producer Who Fled Kyiv Fears She’ll Never Return Home: ‘Nobody Knows What’s Next’

What’s Gender Got to Do With Acting Awards?

Broadway's 'Paradise Square' is a 'nightmare' behind the scenes

US Copyright Office Gets It Right (Again): AI-Generated Works Do Not Get A Copyright Monopoly

After controversy, change, Suzi Bass Awards to honor Atlanta theater again

Friday, February 25, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Worth a Look

Amazon Studios Rolling Out Diversity Playbook in Europe and Globally

Casting Roles with Nudity: Body Checks and Why They Never Should Have Existed

Hath Not a Jew Roles? A Case for Authentic Jewish Casting

Mexico’s cultural appropriation ban is off to a messy start

Why the Rust Shooting Didn’t Change Hollywood

Friday, February 18, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, February 13, 2022

Worth a Look

Data Leak Reveals Resilience, Inequity Of Broadway’s Reopening

'World's largest 8K UHD LED display' opens Winter Olympics

IATSE Releases Updated Federal Legislative Priorities for 2022

Walk with Amal: The Five-Thousand-Mile-Long Theatrical Provocation

Jim Kenyon: Scant pay may have backfired on Northern Stage

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