Sunday, September 15, 2024

Worth a Look

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.

 

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+.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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."

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