Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Minneapolis's Penumbra Theatre looks to the past to create its future
NPR: Recovering from the worst days of the pandemic has been daunting for America's 1,800 regional theaters. But some, thanks to philanthropic help, are using this moment as an opportunity for reinvention.Rust Settlement: Why Halyna Hutchins’ Widower Dropped Suit
The Hollywood Reporter: A year after Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of Rust, the producers, still facing civil litigation and under a cloud of potential criminal liability, are looking to finish the film in the next few months. Key to this gambit is a private settlement with Hutchins’ estate, announced Oct. 5, which is pending court approval. The plan both ends the wrongful death action brought by Hutchins’ family on Feb. 15 and makes her widower, Matthew, an executive producer on the movie.At Pornhub's Consent Event, Chloë Sevigny Reflects on On-Screen Sex
Variety: Johnson expanded on that in an interview with Variety, explaining that on a project that hires an intimacy coordinator, scenarios like what Sevigny described are far less likely to happen. “That’s challenging, talking about mutable contracts. But I will say, in my experience as an intimacy coordinator, we don’t have that happen on the day.'A vindictive, passive-aggressive move': Bay Area community theater faces allegations of racism, workplace misconduct
Datebook: When LaMont Ridgell learned in March that he’d be getting a different director for an upcoming production at Altarena Playhouse, he had questions. His role as a devout Catholic in “Quality of Life” hadn’t traditionally been played by a Black man, and he wanted to make sure his new director, Katina Letheule, also the artistic director of the Alameda community theater, had thought through what his casting would mean.MJ the Musical: A production that doesn’t look at the man in the mirror? No thanks
The Independent: When MJ the Musical – a major new Broadway show about Michael Jackson – opened earlier this year, a few reviews referenced the same song from the King of Pop’s back catalogue. “In MJ, No One’s Looking at the Man in the Mirror,” ran the headline from The New York Times. “Mesmerising parade of hits doesn’t look in the mirror,” went The Guardian’s. AP News was more direct – “Some thriller, lots bad” – while Vulture went niche, declaring that “MJ Exists in a Hyperbaric Chamber of Denial”.
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