Sunday, January 22, 2023

Worth a Look

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

Prosecutors announces manslaughter charges for Alec Baldwin in shooting

CANVAS Arts: Prosecutors announced Thursday that actor Alec Baldwin and a weapons specialist will be charged with involuntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer who was killed in 2021 on a New Mexico movie set.

Oregon Shakes Restructures, Scales Back With Eye to Future

AMERICAN THEATRE: There’s no getting around it, Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) had a rough 2022. Crucial summer performances were canceled due to COVID, the now regular wildfire season took its toll, overall attendance was down, and, to make things egregiously worse, artistic director Nataki Garrett received death threats and had to travel with a security detail.

Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

IATSE: Today we join in solidarity to honor the life and legacy of visionary Civil Rights and Labor Leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. who famously said, “The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life.”

How British theatre censorship laws have inadvertently created a rich archive of Black history

theconversation.com: Between 1737 and 1968 British theatre censorship laws required theatre managers to submit new plays intended for the professional stage to the Lord Chamberlain’s Office for examination and licensing. This was necessary under the Stage Licensing Act of 1737 and the Theatres Act of 1843.

‘Reconnecting people to their joy’: Brian Stokes Mitchell, Senator Schumer et al at APAP conference

New York Theater: Brian Stokes Mitchell, Wynton Marsalis, Senators Chuck Schumer and Amy Klobuchar, and Broadway League President  Charlotte St. Martin were among those who took to the stage on the first day yesterday of the annual conference of APAP (the Association of Performing Arts Professionals)—its first in three years, at the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan. Below are edited transcripts of their speeches, and two videos of their perfomances.

 

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