Sunday, January 21, 2024

Worth a Look

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

Ali Wong Becomes First Asian Lead Actress Winner at 2023 Emmys

The Hollywood Reporter: Ali Wong has made history. The comedian continued Beef’s awards sweep with television’s highest honor, winning the Emmy for best actress in a limited series.

 

For Hailey Verbonac, details make Indigenous design

Intermission: Hailey Verbonac is a trailblazing designer — and budding rap lyricist. At least that’s the case with regard to his work on Space Girl, a new play by Frances Koncan that Prairie Theatre Exchange is presenting digitally following a live run in 2023. Koncan’s play follows Lyra — the titular space girl — as she travels from the moon to Earth and back again, on a zany quest to charge her phone and revive her waning influencer status.

 

Dancer Diary: I Joined the Union!

Dance Magazine: You guys, I did it: I joined the Actors’ Equity Association! This has been a goal of mine for quite a long time. In June I wrote a column on when/why dancers should join the union, and decided to hold off for just a bit longer.

 

RSC directors on the Bard’s legacy: ‘You can’t cancel Shakespeare – his work will outlive us all’

The Independent: The new joint artistic directors of the Royal Shakespeare Company have said the Bard’s work will “outlive us all” in response to recent calls to cancel Shakespeare. The RSC’s co-artistic directors Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey unveiled their debut season at the Stratford-upon-Avon institution on Tuesday 16 January.

 

TDF’s Deeksha Gaur: If You Build the Audience, They Will Come

AMERICAN THEATRE: I think of Theatre Development Fund (TDF) as a sort of cousin of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), and not only because we’re headquartered in the same building in midtown Manhattan, and not only because my first full-time gig in New York City, for a few years before I started at TCG’s American Theatre, was as a content editor for TDF.

 

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