Sunday, April 24, 2022

Worth a Look

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

Moana Star Auli’i Cravalho Wants Disney to ‘Step Up’ on Don’t Say Gay

IndieWire: She may be known as the voice of “Moana,” but Auli’i Cravalho has a powerful voice of her own. The actress will soon star opposite Rowan Blanchard as an unassuming skater tomboy in “Crush,” an adorable queer teen rom-com coming out on Hulu next week.

 

Central Bucks students say district killed production of musical ‘Rent’

www.inquirer.com: As books with sexual content and LGBTQ themes come under new fire from some parents, students in the Central Bucks School District say that school administrators killed a plan for the high school to put on the musical Rent.

 

Influential dance company bred culture of sex, silence, dancers say

CANVAS Arts: Every year, one of the world’s leading dance competition companies sells the dream of Hollywood fame to hundreds of thousands of ambitious young dancers hoping to launch careers on television, in movies and on stage.

 

New Mexico Health & Safety Agency Fines ‘Rust’ Production Company $136,793

Deadline: The company that produced the ill-fated Rust movie has been slapped with a fine of $136,793 by the New Mexico Occupational Health and Safety Bureau for its “willful and serious” violation of workplace safety procedures. The fine, which is the maximum allowable, follows the Bureau’s six-month investigation into the circumstances leading up to the accidental shooting that killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounded director Joel Souza on October 21.

 

In Louisville There Once Was a Festival

AMERICAN THEATRE: You’ve probably never heard of Chug, arguably the least celebrated among the hundreds of works on offer over the decades at the annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. Believe me, there’s no shortage of competition. Nevertheless, of Ken Jenkins’s jaunty tour through a Southern Indiana backwater, I won’t ever forget the big reveal: a restaurant-grade freezer filled to the flippers with frog legs, individually bagged and solid as the tilapia at Trader Joe’s. We were invited, back then in 1981, to take the bounty off his hands for a song, should we entertain a hankering for such victuals.

 

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