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Friday, March 19, 2021

DP Weekly Wrap Up

WEAR A MASK – WASH YOUR HANDS – WATCH YOUR DISTANCE

https://www.cmu.edu/coronavirus

Sunday, March 14, 2021

Worth A Look

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

British theatre urged to 'completely rebuild' to improve diversity

Stage | The Guardian: British theatre needs to be “completely rebuilt” in the wake of Covid-19 to make it more accessible to people from diverse backgrounds, according to the director of a web series about the challenges facing people of colour in the industry.
Posted by David at 3/12/2021 09:18:00 AM

Two new reports reveal just how much our society fails independent arts workers

Datebook: A little more than a year ago, as 2020 was getting into gear, it wouldn’t have been unreasonable to think that AB5 would be the biggest force reshaping Bay Area theater for the year. Many theater workers get hired as independent contractors instead of as employees — a system that AB5, also known as the gig-worker law, is poised to upend.
Posted by David at 3/10/2021 04:17:00 PM

Where Is Hollywood When Broadway Needs It?

The New York Times: Dear Extremely Famous Friend of the American Theater, You’ve been on my mind a lot lately. I realize the pandemic has turned life upside down, but you’ve gone so quiet that I’ve started to wonder if you ever truly meant it — if all the times you spoke of your love of the stage, if every time you reminisced in an interview about how profoundly it shaped you, you were just … what? Following a script? Trying to fit in with your cast mates while you briefly returned to the theater, this time as a star?
Posted by David at 3/11/2021 11:33:00 AM

Producing through a Broadway shutdown and beyond

Broadway News: In the days leading up to March 12, 2020, investors and invitees had begun flying to New York from around the world to attend the Broadway opening of “Six.” Producer Kevin McCollum knew a Broadway shutdown was a possibility. An usher had already contracted COVID-19 and the NBA had just suspended games, but he was not sure when the call would be made.
Posted by David at 3/10/2021 04:15:00 PM

I Have No Desire to Produce a Performance, Live or Livestreamed, Until the Pandemic Is Over. I’ll Wait.

Dance Magazine: Friends, I'd like to deliver some news that might be challenging for you. As much as we have been trained to believe "the show must go on," I can assure you right now, it will be fine if it does not.
Posted by David at 3/09/2021 11:43:00 AM

Friday, March 12, 2021

DP Weekly Wrap Up

WEAR A MASK – WASH YOUR HANDS – WATCH YOUR DISTANCE

https://www.cmu.edu/coronavirus

Sunday, March 07, 2021

Worth a Look

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

Honoring 101 Black Stage Managers | Stage Managers’ Association

Stage Directions: During this pause in our working lives, The Stage Managers’ Association has focused its energies on creating initiatives to better serve the entire theater community. The Stage Managers’ Association (SMA) is pleased to announce that they are partnering with the Black Theatre Caucus to raise the visibility and knowledge into the community of excellent Black Stage Managers.
Posted by David at 3/05/2021 11:15:00 AM

COVID-19 Restrictions Being Lifted Doesn't Mean Venues Are Opening

Consequence of Sound: Over the past 24 hours, several states have reduced the restrictions in place to curb the spread of COVID-19. On Tuesday, both Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Mississippi Governor Tate Reeves abruptly decided to lift all capacity restrictions on businesses and end their states’ mask mandates starting next week. Then today, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced that plays, concerts, and other performances can resume indoors at limited capacity beginning next month. Just because music venues are allowed to reopen, however, doesn’t mean they’re all jumping at the opportunity to do so.
Posted by David at 3/04/2021 11:19:00 AM

The Case for a New Federal Theater Project

Variety: The $15 billion Shuttered Venue Operators Grant — the federal program formerly known as Save Our Stages — isn’t exactly a new Federal Theater Project. But according to Nataki Garrett, the arts leader who has become one of the country’s most vocal advocates for government support of the theater sector, the SVOG represents a dawning bipartisan realization of just how important the arts are to the health of the nation’s economy.
Posted by David at 3/04/2021 11:15:00 AM

I wanna shot: How life on the road with Twisted Sister prepared the man running Baltimore County’s COVID vaccine sites

news.yahoo.com: Rock concerts and COVID vaccine clinics aren’t all that different, if you ask Terry Sapp. The man running the show at Baltimore County’s vaccine sites has spent decades training and coordinating emergency preparedness at the state and local levels. But he credits much of his skill to his years on tour with Twisted Sister across 20 countries from 2004 to 2016, working his way from blogger to production assistant, and as a stage manager for local 1980s cover band The Reagan Years.
Posted by David at 3/02/2021 11:33:00 AM

German Circus Uses Holograms Instead of Live Animals

Nerdist: In 2019, Circus Roncalli out of Germany stopped using wild animals in its shows. They were just the latest of many troupes to make that decision. Even the now-defunct Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus began to phase elephants out of its own performances starting in 2015. But thanks to modern technology, you can still create an amazing spectacle even without mistreating innocent creatures.
Posted by David at 3/02/2021 11:26:00 AM

Friday, March 05, 2021

DP Weekly Wrap Up

WEAR A MASK – WASH YOUR HANDS – WATCH YOUR DISTANCE

https://www.cmu.edu/coronavirus

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Worth a Look

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

Most People Can’t Tell the Difference Between Art Made by Humans and by AI, a Rather Concerning New Study Says

news.artnet.com: “There is a battle rising between humans and machines.” No, that’s not a voiceover from another Matrix or Terminator movie. That’s the first line of a new study on how humans perceive artworks made by computers versus those made by humans, and, according to the findings, published in the journal Empirical Studies in the Arts, things don’t look great for the humans.
Posted by David at 2/25/2021 11:38:00 AM
Illuminating the Careers of Disabled Lighting Designers

HowlRound Theatre Commons: Annie Wiegand is the first, and maybe the only, professional Deaf lighting designer in the theatre industry in the United States. She has been working as a freelance designer in New York City for a decade and is also a professor in the theatre and dance program at Gallaudet University, the only university in the world for Deaf students. Michael Maag is a lighting and projection designer who acquired his disability in a car versus bicycle accident in 2003 and became a T-9 paraplegic. He is the resident lighting designer at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and a founding member of Kinetic Light, a disability arts ensemble.
Posted by David at 2/26/2021 09:45:00 AM
Kevin Michael Richardson To Voice Dr. Hibbert on The Simpsons

The Mary Sue: In a move that is long overdue, The Simpsons has announced that veteran voice actor Harry Shearer will step away from the role of Dr. Hibbert. Shearer, who voices many iconic Springfieldians including Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Principal Skinner, and Ned Flanders, will be replaced by actor Kevin Michael Richardson.
Posted by David at 2/24/2021 11:19:00 AM
It’s Time to Embrace the Singular ‘They’

lifehacker.com: Grammar snobs may shudder in disgust at this idea, but it’s time to normalize the use of they/them as singular pronouns. It’s 2021; no more of this “he or she, his or her” stuff.
Posted by David at 2/24/2021 11:20:00 AM
Birds Of Prey’s costumes changed the game for female superheroes

film.avclub.com: Even before Black Panther and Joker broke through to broader awards-season glory, the superhero genre enjoyed some recognition at the Oscars. Various Batmen, Hellboys, Spider-Men, Guardians Of The Galaxy, and Suicide Squads have all been honored for their visual effects and/or makeup designs over the years—a tradition that dates back to 1979, when Richard Donner’s Superman earned a Special Achievement Award for its effects at that year’s Oscars.
Posted by David at 2/26/2021 09:47:00 AM

There are no bad ideas

Friday, March 19, 2021

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, March 14, 2021

Worth A Look

British theatre urged to 'completely rebuild' to improve diversity

Two new reports reveal just how much our society fails independent arts workers

Where Is Hollywood When Broadway Needs It?

Producing through a Broadway shutdown and beyond

I Have No Desire to Produce a Performance, Live or Livestreamed, Until the Pandemic Is Over. I’ll Wait.

Friday, March 12, 2021

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, March 07, 2021

Worth a Look

Honoring 101 Black Stage Managers | Stage Managers’ Association

COVID-19 Restrictions Being Lifted Doesn't Mean Venues Are Opening

The Case for a New Federal Theater Project

I wanna shot: How life on the road with Twisted Sister prepared the man running Baltimore County’s COVID vaccine sites

German Circus Uses Holograms Instead of Live Animals

Friday, March 05, 2021

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, February 28, 2021

Worth a Look

Most People Can’t Tell the Difference Between Art Made by Humans and by AI, a Rather Concerning New Study Says

Illuminating the Careers of Disabled Lighting Designers

Kevin Michael Richardson To Voice Dr. Hibbert on The Simpsons

It’s Time to Embrace the Singular ‘They’

Birds Of Prey’s costumes changed the game for female superheroes

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