Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Why Meow Wolf's immersive art should make Disney nervous
www.fastcompany.com: If you happen to visit Convergence Station, the Denver outpost of the popular immersive-art empire Meow Wolf, the staff has one request: Don’t push the emergency call button on the elevator, unless there’s a real emergency. “It happens at least once or twice a day,” says Amanda Clay, the company’s chief exhibitions officer. In the 90,000-square-foot, five-story building, a team of 300 artists has created a series of beguiling, Wonka-esque spaces laced with interactive elements.Have we thrown in the towel on COVID?
John Moore | Arts & Entertainment | denvergazette.com: No one wants to say it, believe it or deal with it … but it’s not over. Not only is COVID still ripping its way through the local performing arts community with renewed vigor, but this winter we have the tripledemic: COVID, the flu and RSV, otherwise known as Respiratory Syncytial Virus. And, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health, they are all on the rise.How I Found 25 Yiddish-Speaking Actors for Fiddler on the Roof Off-Broadway
Playbill: “A Fiddler Afn Dakh. Meshugeh, neyn?” “A fiddler on the roof: Crazy, no?” These are the opening lines uttered by Tevye in Fiddler On The Roof In Yiddish now playing Off-Broadway, for the third time, at New York Stages. They also happened to be the first words I thought of when I was asked to cast the show.Julie Hesmondhalgh: ‘I wasn’t aware of class until I went to drama school in London’
Acting | The Guardian: Our arts industry, like our country, is class-ridden. And yet to talk about class is often seen as a throwback. For decades, politicians have been trying to tell us that class doesn’t exist, possibly in the hope that we’d all conveniently stop looking at the unequal ways in which the UK’s wealth continues to be distributed. What does it mean to be “working class” anyway? And how do we fairly and authentically measure that?Black Panther is a step in the right direction and a diverse audience is hungry for more inclusive roles and storylines
theconversation.com: From Doctor Strange: In the Multiverse of Madness to the recent She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, comics and their adaptations or spin-offs are big business. The just-released Black Panther: Wakanda Forever earned an astonishing US$330 million worldwide (£278 million) in its opening weekend.
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