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.
'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.
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.
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.
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.
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