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Trump’s Executive Orders and the NEA: A Detailed Timeline

Oregon ArtsWatch: On March 6, a coalition of theatre companies joined with the American Civil Liberties Union to file a legal action against the National Endowment for the Arts, accusing the organization of overstepping its charter in demanding that grant applicants comply with President Trump’s recent executive order attacking transgender and nonbinary people. On March 7, the District Court of Rhode Island agreed, granting a temporary injunction for the current grant cycle while the litigation is still pending.

 

Worker Wins: A Huge Step Forward

AFL-CIO: Equity Reaches New Developmental Work Agreement with Broadway League: The National Council of Actors’ Equity Association (Equity) voted last week to ratify a new five-year Development Agreement with The Broadway League, ending an eight-month strike against early-stage development work.

 

IATSE President Speaks Out Against Canceled Kennedy Center Shows

www.hollywoodreporter.com: IATSE International president Matthew D. Loeb cautioned artists and producers against cancelling shows at the Kennedy Center, citing the impact on wages for behind-the-scenes workers.

 

Randall Miller of 'Midnight Rider' Gets Manslaughter Conviction Cleared

variety.com: Randall Miller, the director of “Midnight Rider,” completed his probation this week, 10 years after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of crew member Sarah Jones. Jones, a camera assistant, was struck by a freight train in February 2014 while the crew was setting up a shot on a train bridge without authorization. Miller ultimately served a year in jail in the case.

 

First Immersive AI Dubbed Movie to Release in U.S.

variety.com: A foreign language sci-fi movie is headed to U.S. movie theaters this spring, but audiences won’t have to groan about subtitles. For the first time, an international feature film will look and sound as if it was made in English thanks to artificial intelligence.

 

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Play Us a Song, 𝝅-ano Man

News - Carnegie Mellon University: How does a piece of pi sound? Inside Carnegie Mellon University’s Vlahakis Recording Studio , Evan O’Dorney plays a peaceful, thoughtful melody on a Steinway B piano. Embellished notes stick out, a code containing the first 97 digits a fundamental constant in mathematics — pi.

 

Pittsburgh arts groups address ongoing federal turmoil

90.5 WESA: Pittsburgh arts groups have begun formally responding to the turmoil their community has been experiencing under the second Trump administration. On March 3, Pittsburgh Public Theater sent an email reaffirming its community-minded values and promising it “will not pursue or accept funding that compromises our mission or forces us to denounce our dedication to YOU.”

 

New Report Surveys Critical Landscape for Theatre Journalists of Color

AMERICAN THEATRE: The grantmaking and learning initiative Critical Minded has released a new 159-page report titled Topdogs and Underdogs: Critics of Color and the Theatrical Landscape, an incisive, groundbreaking study of the structural challenges facing American critics of color in the United States, with a specific focus on contemporary theatre critics, which concludes with an urgent call for change. At a time when legislative and institutional support for both diversity initiatives and free speech is being aggressively rolled back, Topdogs and Underdogs makes an impassioned argument for the fundamental value of criticism in a democratic society.

 

Toolkit on Theatre Practices for AAPI/Asian Artists Released

AMERICAN THEATRE: The Asian American Performers Action Coalition (AAPAC) has created and released AAPAC Theater Practices Toolkit: Creating an Inclusive Environment for AAPI/Asian Artists. This toolkit was inspired by listening sessions and survey data which revealed that less than 5.5 percent of AAPI/Asian theatre artists nationwide believe that theatres are creating an environment of inclusion for AAPI/Asian people. Intended as a reference guide for theatrical institutions across the country, the toolkit is organized by departments and lists anecdotal and statistical information on challenges specifically shared by the AAPI/Asian theatre community, as well as actionable solutions inclusive of their specific needs and concerns.

 

AI and Copyright: Expanding Copyright Hurts Everyone—Here’s What to Do Instead

Electronic Frontier Foundation: You shouldn't need a permission slip to read a webpage–whether you do it with your own eyes, or use software to help. AI is a category of general-purpose tools with myriad beneficial uses. Requiring developers to license the materials needed to create this technology threatens the development of more innovative and inclusive AI models, as well as important uses of AI as a tool for expression and scientific research.

 

DP Weekly Wrap Up

COSTUME DESIGN
 
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https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/q-costume-designer-of-monkey-discusses.html
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https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/wicked-costume-designer-reflects-on.html
 
LIGHTING DESIGN
 
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https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/don-holder-business-of-lighting-design.html
https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/city-theatrical-talks-with-lighting.html
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SOUND DESIGN
 
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https://cmuptm.blogspot.com/2025/03/diane-warren-on-losing-best-original.html
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https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/powersoft-launches-new-unica-t.html
https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/shut-up-play-50-patches-for-moog.html
https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/udo-audio-super-gemini-hands-on-demo.html
https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/noisespace-experimental-sound-generator.html
https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/debut-of-new-tascam-audio-file-manager.html
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https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/step-by-step-part-1-on-working-through.html
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https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/theatre-sound-education-collaboration.html
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https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/shure-announces-significant-victory.html
 
STAGE & PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
 
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https://cmuptm.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-daily-show-had-safety-meeting-after.html
https://cmuptm.blogspot.com/2025/03/psychological-health-and-safety.html
https://cmuptm.blogspot.com/2025/03/striking-stage-crews-reach-agreement.html
https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/showstop-procedure-crowd-safety.html
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https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/how-to-negotiate-your-salary-as-stage.html
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https://greenpagesod.blogspot.com/2025/03/iatse-union-president-on-canceled.html
 
PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY
 
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COSTUME PRODUCTION
 
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TECHNICAL DIRECTION
 
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SCENE DESIGN
 
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VIDEO & MEDIA DESIGN
 
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Worth a Look

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

‘Why aren’t there Oscars for what we do?’ Choreographer Ellen Kane lets rip

Stage | The Guardian: Ellen Kane is on a roll. When we speak, the choreographer and movement director has two shows running, Ballet Shoes at the National Theatre, and Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 at the Donmar. She has just finished Why Am I So Single?, the follow-up from the writers of Six, the smash hit about Henry VIII’s wives, and she’s in rehearsals for the revival of Dear England, James Graham’s funny and stirring depiction of Gareth Southgate’s tenure as England manager. If you watched all those shows in a row, you would have no idea the same person had a hand in them all, such is the art of the movement director, a job that many may not even realise exists. But it’s an essential one.

In 2021–22 Broadway Season, Black Actors Saw Large Increase in Representation While Other POC Groups Saw Decrease

Playbill: The 2021–22 season was a banner year for Broadway. It came as theatres were reopening after the 16-month pandemic shut-down. And after the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, which called for greater awareness of systemic racism and more diversity within all areas of American life, the theatre industry responded by having 12 out of the 33 shows that Broadway season written by a BIPOC writer. That was the year where a musical by a Black writer with an all-Black cast won the Tony Award for Best Musical: A Strange Loop.

New Audience Behavior Study Shows Promising Signs

AMERICAN THEATRE: JCA Performing Arts has released a new study on Trends in Audience Behavior: Elections, Shadow Audiences & Hidden Treasures. The results show a performing arts sector that has still not returned to pre-pandemic revenue levels, but with some intriguing and promising bright spots.

Theatre’s thriving horror revival reflects a cultural moment of collective anxiety

theconversation.com: The stage has long presented horror as entertainment, from 19th-century ghost and revenge melodramas to the blood-soaked spectacles of the grand-guignol, the Parisian “theatre of horror’.

SNL Costumes Through the Years, Photos: Coneheads to Target Lady

wwd.com/pop-culture: “Saturday Night Live” is the most Emmy-winning show in history, with 11 nominations in the Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Programming category and one victory for costume designer Tom Broecker in 2014. Since 1975, the show has launched countless careers, catchphrases and, of course, memorable costumes that have inspired Halloween outfits everywhere.

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Producers Guild Calls Its Profession The ‘Pilot Light’ On Productions

www.forbes.com: When you hear about the year’s biggest films, the popular actors are often the first to be mentioned - then the director, maybe the writer - but what else? One organization celebrating 75 years in existence wants to remind us all about the pivotal role that producers consistently play on productions, big and small.

 

With Wildfires Contained, Hollywood Workers Try to Rebuild

www.thewrap.com: On Jan. 16, it was all hands on deck at the IATSE Local 80 headquarters in Burbank, and not just within the entertainment crew workers’ union. Representatives from the Motion Picture & Television Fund and Entertainment Community Fund were on hand to accept applications for financial assistance. Grief counselors and insurance advisors were available for meetings on the second floor.

 

Island Shakespeare Festival’s Sustainability in Action

HowlRound Theatre Commons: Tucked into the far northwest corner of the continental United States, nestled into the waters of Puget Sound, lies the forty-mile-long island of Tscha-kole-chy, colonially known as Whidbey Island, Washington. Pacific Ocean winds rush through majestic Deception Pass, rocking towering fir trees. Killer whales splash past the oyster-strewn shoreline (some sporting a dead salmon as a hat, potentially this season’s orca fashion trend). This fantastical place is also the real home of an outdoor theatre, Island Shakespeare Festival (ISF).

 

Jennifer Jones' Experience as the First Black Rockette

Dance Magazine: On January 31, 1988, I made my national debut with the world-famous Radio City Rockettes at the NFL Super Bowl halftime show in San Diego. It’s no exaggeration or cliché to say that it was an impossible illusion made real for my younger self, who desperately wanted to succeed as a dancer and performer.

 

How Sumo Wrestling Became New York’s Hottest New Play

www.thedailybeast.com: A small group sits in a windowless Public Theater rehearsal room, but the combination of dramatic taiko drumming, the sight of many of the actors clad only in the traditional mawashi (cloth-belt) costumes, and the painful thwack, thwack, thwack of bodies hitting the hard surface of the dohyō (ring) over and over again makes it feel as if we are at an actual sumo wrestling bout.

 

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Promise: What Does a Gen AI Content Studio Look Like?

www.indiewire.com/news: In November, a new type of content studio, Promise, was launched. Backed by high-profile investors, including producer Peter Chernin, Promise announced at its outset that it aimed to produce film and TV series by incorporating generative artificial intelligence tools into its production workflow, partly by utilizing its proprietary software MUSE.

Disney Costume Designers Fulfill Make-A-Wish Kid's CINDERELLA Dream

www.broadwayworld.com: Disney’s costuming team fulfilled the dream of Make-A-Wish kid Rita by working with her on a custom dress. The Cinderella fan had a one-on-one gown design session with Disney designers to create “Rita’s Rose Diamond Dress." See photos from her visit, which also included a tour of their costuming building and fabric library, character meet-and-greet, and more!

 

B.C. film/TV unions draw lines on AI use

Business in Vancouver: Regulations in B.C.’s film and TV industry are keeping the threat artificial intelligence poses to job security at bay for now, but some creative sector unions are struggling with adoption and what it might mean for members. From a screenwriting standpoint, the industry hasn’t yet experienced the full impact of AI, nor has the technology threatened the work of screenwriting professionals, said Writers Guild of Canada (WGC) Pacific-Western region councillor Jason Filiatrault.

 

Cause for Celebration and Calls for Change: The Museum of Broadway's Black Storytellers Exhibit

www.broadwayworld.com: The energy of attendees walking through the Museum of Broadway's new limited-time exhibit centered around Black storytellers was palpable during its February 3rd opening night. Crafting Excellence: Black Storytellers of Broadway — presented in partnership with Broadway Cares — highlights the work of playwrights, librettists, lyricists, and composers spanning decades.

 

How Could the Audition Process be Better for Dancers—and for Hiring Teams?

Dance Magazine: With more talented dancers competing for fewer jobs, audition season has become a gauntlet of overcrowded open calls and time-consuming self-tapes. Could auditions be more productive and less painful, for performers and hiring teams alike? A group of high-level performers and choreographers weigh in on their biggest audition issues—and offer solutions.