Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Steve Way, Maysoon Zayid, Disabled Comedians on Industry Inaccessibility
variety.com: A day before Ramy Youssef was set to record his latest special “More Feelings,” a friend and fellow comedian and actor Steve Way was scheduled to do a practice run as his opener at Brooklyn’s Bell House. It never happened. “The day of the show, they tell Ramy, ‘Sorry, we can’t get Steve on stage.’ They needed a week’s notice to rent a ramp,’” Way, who has his own special coming soon, recalls. “This isn’t Make-A-Wish. I would rather be told I’m not good enough than, ‘Sorry, there are stairs.’”
New York City Theatre Is Undergoing a Once-in-a-Generation Shift
Playbill: At the 2024 Tony Awards, one of the many producers who took to the stage when Stereophonic won Best Play was Adam Greenfield. He is the artistic director of Off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons, which premiered Stereophonic last year before the show transferred to Broadway. In his brief remarks on the Koch stage, Greenfield said: “Every play nominated in this [Best Play] category tonight came from an Off-Broadway theatre. Playwrights Horizons stands very proudly among our peers. And if a culture of risk-taking new work is important, then we need the support of our city to maintain that.”
The Other Side of Summer
AMERICAN THEATRE: Snakes on the sidewalk. No, it’s not a new Samuel L. Jackson movie. The snakes are real, and are just one of the seemingly endless challenges facing summer theatre companies and festivals as they struggle toward recovery after 2020. Snakes—and skunks and bears, oh my—are showing up in theatre communities as their habitats shrink, giving the artistic and managing directors of these companies just one more thing to worry about.
Public Statement from the Dancers of Dallas Black Dance Theatre: Can You Hear Us Now, Leadership?
American Guild of Musical Artists: We, the dedicated dancers of Dallas Black Dance Theatre (DBDT), voted unanimously on May 29 to form a union with the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA). Since that day, DBDT’s leadership has made several unusual and aggressive decisions. Why? It would seem for no other purpose than to punish us for our decision to have a real voice in our working lives. We’ve attempted to communicate with leadership and have been met with silence. We now exercise our collective right to talk about our situation publicly, with the hope that DBDT leadership will hear us and work with us on a path forward.
Venice Immersive 2024 Features Gundam, VRChat Worlds & More
www.uploadvr.com: Originally launched in 2017, Venice Immersive serves as the annual XR segment for the 81st Venice International Film Festival, and the latest edition promises 63 different projects from 25 countries. This year's competition will see 26 projects up for three awards, as determined by the three judges: Celine Daemen, Marion Burger (Emperor) and Adriaan Lokman.
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