Worth a Look

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

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.