There are no bad ideas: September 2024

Monday, September 30, 2024

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

National Endowment for the Arts Announces More than $12 Million in Grants to Expand Access to Arts Participation in Communities Nationwide

National Endowment for the Arts: The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is pleased to announce 112 organizations recommended for awards under ArtsHERE—a new pilot program in partnership with South Arts and in collaboration with the other five U.S. Regional Arts Organizations—designed to expand access to arts participation across the nation.

Posted by David at 9/26/2024 11:19:00 AM

"Rust' Judge to Rule Next Week on Armorer's Bid for New Trial

variety.com: A judge is set to rule next week on whether to overturn the conviction of “Rust” armorer Hannah Gutierrez Reed, who is serving an 18-month sentence in the accidental death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins.

Posted by David at 9/27/2024 10:44:00 AM

Interview: X-Men '97 Voice Actor Jennifer Hale on AI

gizmodo.com: Following in the footsteps of the SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild strikes of 2023, video game voice actors are on strike after a year of negotiations with big-time video game publishers like Activision and Epic Games. As with those strikes, the central sticking point for video game voice actors is protection against the ever-pervasive use of generative AI technologies.

Posted by David at 9/25/2024 10:04:00 AM

Casting Directors Teamsters Negotiation: Wage Floors at Issue

www.hollywoodreporter.com: Though many core crafts in Hollywood have been members of organized labor organizations for decades and decades — some around a century — casting directors unionized for the first time just 19 years ago. Their vote to join two Teamsters Locals in 2005 was a watershed moment for the group responsible for scouting the next class of bankable movie and television stars and matchmaking actors and projects.

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

Dismal 'Bridgerton'-Themed Ball in Detroit Sparks Refund Demands

Business Insider: Guests at a "Bridgerton"-themed ball in Detroit were left angry and upset after spending hundreds of dollars on tickets for the event, which they say failed to live up to promoters' promises.

Posted by David at 9/26/2024 11:18:00 AM

Friday, September 27, 2024

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Monday, September 23, 2024

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Virginia Rep Faces Permanent Closure Without Urgent $600K Support

www.broadwayworld.com: Virginia Repertory Theatre, Central Virginia’s largest professional theatre company, is facing an urgent financial crisis that could lead to its permanent closure. The theatre announced that unless it can raise $600,000 in the coming weeks, its current production of Stephen King’s Misery will be its last.

Posted by David at 9/20/2024 10:14:00 AM

Trans, Non-Binary Cast, Crew At Risk on Canadian Film Sets: Report

www.hollywoodreporter.com: As the Canadian film industry focuses on boosting representation for trans and non-binary people and characters on local film and TV screens, the industry has got a wake-up call about anti-trans sentiment and actions experienced by gender-diverse people working behind the camera.

Posted by David at 9/20/2024 10:12:00 AM

Lionsgate signs deal to train AI model on its movies and shows

The Verge: AI startup Runway has made a name for itself building generative models seemingly trained on unlicensed content from around the internet. Now, the company has signed a deal with Lionsgate that will give it access to the studio’s massive portfolio of films and TV shows.

Posted by David at 9/19/2024 11:03:00 AM

Centering Relationships to Grow Guthrie Theater’s Native Advisory Council

HowlRound Theatre Commons: In early March of 2020, I was at work at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, Minnesota on a Saturday. I met Ernest Briggs who was teaching a free, all-ages, all-abilities acting class for the Indigenous community as part of the theatre’s growing commitment to Native artists. When Ernest first proposed this all-ages class, I didn’t understand how it would work, but I trusted him to know how he wanted to teach in his community.

Posted by David at 9/19/2024 11:06:00 AM

Broadway Swing Joanna Carpenter Wants to Make One of Theatre's Hardest Jobs a Little Bit Easier

Playbill: On Broadway, there are few jobs as difficult as being a swing. Stars play their one single role, while ensemble members tend to stick to their one single track and might understudy a principal character or two. Swings, on the other hand, are the Swiss army knives of Broadway.

Posted by David at 9/16/2024 12:54:00 PM

Friday, September 20, 2024

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, September 15, 2024

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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

Friday, September 13, 2024

DP Weekly Wrap Up

There are no bad ideas

Monday, September 30, 2024

Worth a Look

National Endowment for the Arts Announces More than $12 Million in Grants to Expand Access to Arts Participation in Communities Nationwide

"Rust' Judge to Rule Next Week on Armorer's Bid for New Trial

Interview: X-Men '97 Voice Actor Jennifer Hale on AI

Casting Directors Teamsters Negotiation: Wage Floors at Issue

Dismal 'Bridgerton'-Themed Ball in Detroit Sparks Refund Demands

Friday, September 27, 2024

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Monday, September 23, 2024

Worth a Look

Virginia Rep Faces Permanent Closure Without Urgent $600K Support

Trans, Non-Binary Cast, Crew At Risk on Canadian Film Sets: Report

Lionsgate signs deal to train AI model on its movies and shows

Centering Relationships to Grow Guthrie Theater’s Native Advisory Council

Broadway Swing Joanna Carpenter Wants to Make One of Theatre's Hardest Jobs a Little Bit Easier

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

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