Sunday, November 27, 2022

Worth a Look

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

Play ‘born of rage’ over Asian female stereotypes lambasts Miss Saigon

Theatre | The Guardian: The programming of Kimber Lee’s drama untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play was announced on Tuesday, following news that a touring theatre company of British east and south-east Asian (BESEA) artists has pulled a production from the Sheffield Crucible next summer because the venue is staging Miss Saigon. In a statement, New Earth Theatre said it would not present its play Worth alongside “a musical that perpetuates deeply held notions of Asian inferiority”.

Skoufis, Others Question Ticket "Holdbacks" in Taylor Swift Mess

www.ticketnews.com: There is no question that a massive swell of demand is responsible for a lot of the mess that consumers experienced during this week’s Taylor Swift Eras Tour ticket sales disaster. With the artist fresh off a history-making week where she had all ten spots atop the Billboard singles chart, tickets to see her perform were going to be red hot. But questions are starting to bubble up about whether or not a significant number of tickets being held-back played a major role in the chaos.

Another Bay Area theater artistic director is exiting, after 17 years at the helm. Here's why

Datebook: Since 2017, artistic directors at almost all the biggest nonprofit theaters in the Bay Area have left their posts, most after decades on the job. Until Tuesday, Nov. 22, Marin Theatre Company was the lone holdout, with Jasson Minadakis at the helm for 17 years.

Could ‘for colored girls’ and ‘1776’ mark a turning point for visibly pregnant actors on Broadway?

Broadway News: For as long as pregnant people have been able to work, they’ve confronted the tension around working while pregnant — especially on Broadway where appearance can actually factor into the job.   Within six months of each other, two actors in separate Broadway productions began performances while visibly, obviously pregnant.

Namor In Wakanda Forever Is Huge For Indigenous Latines

www.refinery29.com: Tenoch Huerta Mejía is soaring. Since starring in the superhero epic Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the Mexican actor has been trending for dancing with Lupita Nyong'o and going viral for his critique of Latine representation in media. “In Latin America, especially Mexico, we have a lack of representation. If you turn on the TV, all the people are white. Mexico looks on the TV like a Scandinavian country," he said in an interview with NBC News — and he’s not wrong.

 

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