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.