There are no bad ideas: September 2024

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

Yesterday’s Broadway Warhorses, Saddled With Today’s Concerns

The New York Times: Two cheers for new voices! Of the 16 productions scheduled to open on Broadway between now and the end of the year, 12 are new to the Boulevard of Broken Budgets. But I’d like to reserve a third cheer for the fall’s four revivals, which may get less attention, having been this way before, but are likely to earn their keep if history holds true.

Posted by David at 9/12/2024 12:36:00 PM

8 Years Later, an Infamous Star Wars Scene Just Sparked a New Disney Controversy

www.inverse.com: Rogue One was a revolutionary Star Wars movie for several reasons. It proved Star Wars could succeed at the box office beyond the flagship saga, it fleshed out a crucial part of the timeline leading up to A New Hope and, although no one knew it at the time, it led to the creation of Andor, the best Star Wars show on Disney+.

Posted by David at 9/12/2024 12:33:00 PM

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

Ars Technica: One of the things enterprise storage and destruction company Iron Mountain does is handle the archiving of the media industry's vaults. What it has been seeing lately should be a wake-up call: roughly one-fifth of the hard disk drives dating to the 1990s it was sent are entirely unreadable.

Posted by David at 9/13/2024 12:39:00 PM

Escalating Drama Department Cuts and Mergers Impact Us All

HowlRound Theatre Commons: Four years ago, Frank Ludwig (scenic designer and professor, Department of Theatre and Music Theatre, Viterbo University) wrote this article in Theatre Design and Technology about the impact of university and college downsizing on theatre design and production programs. It was a dire situation then. It’s even worse now.

Posted by David at 9/09/2024 03:31:00 PM

Williamstown Theatre Festival Wants To Be The Coachella of Theatre

www.broadwayworld.com: In an article promoted by the theater and originally published by The Berkshire Eagle, Raphael Picciarelli (Managing Director of Strategy and Transformation) shared that they want to "create something similar to a music festival."

Posted by David at 9/09/2024 03:38:00 PM

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

Profile: The Pittsburgh Promoter, Dawn Keezer

Pittsburgh Magazine: Dawn Keezer says she can sell just about any filmmaker on Pittsburgh. Whether you’re making a movie set in Paris, San Francisco or New York, the fast-talking executive director of the Pittsburgh Film Office has got you covered. “We do New York better than New York does,” says Keezer. “Because here you can shut down one street and be in midtown Manhattan,” no massive traffic jam required. She says it with such conviction that you get the sense she could win an argument against a hardcore Yankees fan.

Posted by David at 9/06/2024 11:42:00 AM

Slave Play: how policing audience phones during nude scene affects the meaning of the production

theconversation.com: As I joined the long queue outside London’s Noël Coward Theatre for Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play, I was greeted by an usher who asked to see my phone. When I produced my mobile, the usher put a sticker over my phone’s camera that said “Starbucks!” (an inside joke from the play, I later discovered). Several times before we took our seats, ushers verified that the stickers on our phones were in place.

Posted by David at 9/03/2024 10:24:00 AM

Inside the Deceptively Simple Costume Design of Broadway's Job

Playbill: Seeing the costumes in Broadway's Job—currently running at the Hayes Theater through October 27—it looks like the characters have just worn their own, regular street clothes. But behind that simplicity is a designer intimately linked with the text and subtext of the play and its characters. See costume designer Michelle J. Li reveal the care that went into her work on the Max Wolf Friedlich play in the video above.

Posted by David at 9/03/2024 10:30:00 AM

Excellence in Theatre Education Award Winner CJay Philip Unpacks the Importance of Arts Education

www.broadwayworld.com: "I want my students to know that art is connective. It helps us to see each other- to be moved.” explained 2024 Excellence in Theatre Education Award winner CJay Philip. “It gets at the soul and the core of us as creative beings."

Posted by David at 9/04/2024 10:12:00 AM

Here are the best photos from Burning Man 2024

www.sfgate.com: Burning Man is over, and Black Rock City is no more. The last embers of Burning Man’s temple burn have gone out, and the city’s inhabitants have vacated the desert through a dust storm and hourslong traffic jam. But even as the desert festival plans to leave no trace in the Nevada desert, it leaves a colorful trail of photos in its wake.

Posted by David at 9/05/2024 10:40:00 AM

There are no bad ideas

Friday, September 20, 2024

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, September 15, 2024

Worth a Look

Yesterday’s Broadway Warhorses, Saddled With Today’s Concerns

8 Years Later, an Infamous Star Wars Scene Just Sparked a New Disney Controversy

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

Escalating Drama Department Cuts and Mergers Impact Us All

Williamstown Theatre Festival Wants To Be The Coachella of Theatre

Friday, September 13, 2024

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Monday, September 09, 2024

Worth a Look

Profile: The Pittsburgh Promoter, Dawn Keezer

Slave Play: how policing audience phones during nude scene affects the meaning of the production

Inside the Deceptively Simple Costume Design of Broadway's Job

Excellence in Theatre Education Award Winner CJay Philip Unpacks the Importance of Arts Education

Here are the best photos from Burning Man 2024

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