Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Triumph from tragedy: how Greece's theatre roared out of a national crisis
Stage | The Guardian: After a three-day visit, it would be presumptuous to sum up Athenian theatre. But in that short time, I saw five productions, met numerous artists and learned a lot. My immediate impression was that Athens is a hive of theatrical activity: some 1,500 productions a year covering everything from Aeschylus and Sophocles to Pinter and Albee.
Too much British theatre has indeed been forgotten
Letters | Stage | The Guardian: The lack of popular knowledge of British theatre history is much worse than Joanna Lumley thinks (A rebuke from stage left: young actors ignore our theatrical history, says Lumley, 4 March).
How many readers know Britain lived under government censorship of all publicly performed plays for 400 years until 1968, giving rise to our humorous obsession in this country with innuendo, often centred around suggestively shaped fruit and vegetables, to be slipped past the lord chamberlain’s censor?
Ground Breaker Tana Douglas
SoundGirls.org: Tana Douglas is known as the first woman roadie and got her start working Production in 1973 when Philippe Petit rigged a steel cable between the towers at the northern entrance to the Sydney Harbor Bridge. (Kathy Sander another roadie got her start in 1974 touring with Elton John). Without realizing it she had just done her first gig.
Column: In the American theater, will highly paid artistic directors survive?
Chicago Tribune: In the 1980s, the Theatre Communications Group, a trade association for nonprofit theaters, wanted to explore the future of the so-called resident theater movement — the network of professional, nonprofit theaters that had transformed the cultural landscape of America’s cities since Margo Jones, a.k.a. the Texas Tornado, and her revolutionary doings at her groundbreaking Theatre ’47 in Dallas.
Who did they ask? Artistic directors, of course.
Women Count V: Women Hired Off-Broadway 2014/15 through 2018/19
urban excavations: The Women Count report series collects and publishes analyses of production credits to assess gender parity in theater hiring decisions. Since 2014 we have asked: whose plays are being done, who is directing them, and how many women are being hired for theatrical off-stage roles in New York’s theaters beyond Broadway? The goal of the report series is to change the conversation from anecdotes to action plans to support advocacy efforts on behalf of women playwrights, performers, and off-stage theater workers.
Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Amidst Covid-19 Cancellations, Venues Take Health Measures
www.eventmarketer.com: MWC Barcelona was the catalyst, but a wave of event cancelations are being announced in real time as the Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) continues to spread at an unprecedented rate. The majority of cancelations, at present, are pertaining to global shows like MWC and Cisco Live: Melbourne, but U.S. cancelations are also beginning to crop up, including Facebook’s Global Marketing Summit, which was slated for March 9-12 in San Francisco. There’s also growing buzz about Tokyo 2020 and what it would mean to cancel the Summer Olympics, particularly in the wake of volunteer training events having been postponed.
NHL Seattle To Pay For Fans' Transit To Home Games
www.ticketnews.com: When the NHL’s newest expansion team debuts in Seattle next year, local hockey fans will be able to get to and from the games free of charge. NHL Seattle announced an ambitious plan to provide free transit options for ticket holders in an effort to enhance fan experience and remain environmentally friendly.
'That's Rock 'n' Roll!' Get Inside Madison Square Garden as 18,000 Students Cheer on To Kill a Mockingbird
Broadway Buzz | Broadway.com: The roar of the 18,000-member crowd as the players took their places at Madison Square Garden was enough to knock you back. But this wasn’t a Knicks game; this was an audience of New York City public school students cheering for a play. Madison Square Garden—known more for concerts and sporting events than theater—presented its first-ever play on February 26. Students from across New York City’s five boroughs assembled for a free performance of Broadway's best-selling To Kill a Mockingbird.
California’s AB 5: Not as Easy as ABC
AMERICAN THEATRE: Just over a month and a half after Assembly Bill 5 (AB 5) went into effect in California on Jan. 1, Liz Lisle, managing director of Berkeley, Calif.’s Shotgun Players, considers her company lucky. AB 5, California’s new bill aimed at reining in employers who incorrectly or wrongfully classify workers as independent contractors, has sent shockwaves through the California theatre community, especially small, non-Equity companies.
If My AI Wrote this Post, Could I Own the Copyright?
The Scholarly Kitchen: Every new technology poses challenges for the concept of intellectual property rights ownership. When copyright was first introduced into legislation in the US following the adoption of the Constitution, the copyright of works extended to “maps, charts, and books” and only for a period of 14 years. Growth of the coverage of copyright over time moved forward in fits and starts, occasionally with the not-so-subtle hand of the Supreme Court in the United States.
