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Friday, February 25, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, February 20, 2022

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

Amazon Studios Rolling Out Diversity Playbook in Europe and Globally

Variety: The Amazon Studios Inclusion Policy and Playbook released last June in the U.S. is reverberating in the streaming giant’s productions around the world.
Posted by David at 2/15/2022 09:37:00 AM

Casting Roles with Nudity: Body Checks and Why They Never Should Have Existed

HowlRound Theatre Commons: In the spring of 2021, the final semester of my undergraduate acting program, we had a routine Q&A session with a prominent casting director in Los Angeles to prepare for our end-of-the-year showcase. I, an emerging intimacy director, asked him about his experience with intimacy in the industry and what he knew of the professional casting process when the role involved nudity. To my dismay, he began to explain what he referred to as “body checks” that were performed at callbacks.
Posted by David at 2/18/2022 09:27:00 AM

Hath Not a Jew Roles? A Case for Authentic Jewish Casting

AMERICAN THEATRE: My first full-length play to be produced in New York City was called A Shylock. It was about Shakespeare, and it was about anti-Semitism. The lead, a character named Jack Levy, was played by a talented actor who still frequently works with me, 25 years later. As it happens, he is not Jewish. At the time I thought nothing of it.
Posted by David at 2/18/2022 09:27:00 AM

Mexico’s cultural appropriation ban is off to a messy start

The Verge: TheThe first embroidery stitch María Méndez Rodríguez learned at the age of 7 was the chain stitch. It’s the same one that, years later, she would teach to her seven children. At 42, Méndez has mastered advanced stitches like the closed buttonhole and rococo. She’s now diving back into the drawing process, trying to evolve from the traditional motifs of flowers and leaves she embroiders on blouses to better reflect the flora in her community.
Posted by David at 2/14/2022 09:49:00 AM

Why the Rust Shooting Didn’t Change Hollywood

The Atlantic: For more than 30 years, Bill Davis’s job has been to help famous people look like they know what they’re doing with a gun. As an armorer working in Hollywood, Davis teaches movie stars how to properly handle firearms, and some are fast learners: He helped train Tom Cruise on the set of the film Collateral and walked away impressed with the actor’s form. Others require a little more instruction; Davis said he once had to scold Danny Glover for pulling the trigger too early during a scene in Saw.
Posted by David at 2/18/2022 09:29:00 AM

Friday, February 18, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, February 13, 2022

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

Data Leak Reveals Resilience, Inequity Of Broadway’s Reopening

www.forbes.com: After months of well-intentioned obfuscation, the complete sales data of Broadway’s reopening has been made public through a series of leaks. The Broadway League trade organization distributed the data to members in January, after having withheld it throughout the autumn, releasing only aggregate weekly totals. The full show-by-show numbers now paint a clear picture of everything that was running from September to early December, and how they all weathered reopening after 18 months of darkness.
Posted by David at 2/08/2022 09:35:00 AM

'World's largest 8K UHD LED display' opens Winter Olympics

www.avinteractive.com: The world’s largest 8K UHD LED floor display, with an overall area of 10,393 sq m, has played a key role at the Beijing Winter Olympics, illuminating the stage floor of the games’ opening ceremony. The LED stage was supplied by Leyard International which worked with the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation and director Zhang Yimou on the giant project.
Posted by David at 2/09/2022 10:34:00 AM

IATSE Releases Updated Federal Legislative Priorities for 2022

IATSE: The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) released today its updated federal legislative priorities for the second session of the 117th United States Congress. The IATSE Federal Issue Agenda highlights the core issues facing behind-the-scenes workers employed throughout the U.S. entertainment industry and conveys the union’s federal policy priorities to elected officials.
Posted by David at 2/08/2022 09:40:00 AM

Walk with Amal: The Five-Thousand-Mile-Long Theatrical Provocation

HowlRound Theatre Commons: There are some, no doubt, in the United Kingdom’s media and across the European continent who rolled their eyes at the idea of the Walk with Amal project (WWA). It was quite possibly the world’s largest theatre festival which saw a 12-foot-high puppet refugee girl walk the refugee corridor from Turkey to the United Kingdom, passing through 8 countries and making around 140 stopovers in towns and villages along the way.
Posted by David at 2/08/2022 09:39:00 AM

Jim Kenyon: Scant pay may have backfired on Northern Stage

Valley News: When the bigwigs at Northern Stage say the law doesn’t apply to their professional theater company in downtown White River Junction, it’s not just an act. Shortly before Christmas, Northern Stage informed five female employees at its state-of-the-art $9 million theater that even though Vermont’s hourly minimum wage was about to increase to $12.55, they wouldn’t benefit from the law change, which went into effect Jan. 1.
Posted by David at 2/10/2022 09:33:00 AM

Friday, February 11, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, February 06, 2022

Worth a Look

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

Get Past the Lobby: Theatres Rethink How We Gather

AMERICAN THEATRE: To say that the mission and priorities of the average theatre company have changed in the past few years is a gross understatement. From navigating staffing and programming upheavals due to the pandemic, to suddenly becoming the bellwethers of health and safety strategy, to interrogating internal power structures within our organizations following both the #MeToo movement and the racial justice uprising in the wake of George Floyd’s murder, we have seen an unprecedented shift in culture that would have been hard to fathom just two short years ago.
Posted by David at 2/03/2022 02:24:00 PM

It's become a different world

Chicago Reader: We see a show and later learn that it had to close abruptly. We can empathize with the actors’ disappointment and distress because we can visualize their faces and recall their voices. But how has the pandemic impacted those we see only briefly in the lobby as we enter or don’t see at all? How are they managing this crisis?
Posted by David at 1/31/2022 09:34:00 AM

Protecting the creative economy during COVID: Arts and the artists drive local economy

TheHill: Since its founding in 1935, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF), has grown into one of the leaders of modern American theater and one of the largest economic drivers of the Southern Oregon economy. In a typical year, we welcome over 400,000 people from all over the world who visit our three theaters including the oldest Elizabethan theater in the U.S.
Posted by David at 2/01/2022 09:17:00 AM

Can artists wake us from COVID apathy?

limelightmagazine.com.au: Bob Dylan’s words from 1963 could have been written today. The answer is figuratively blowing in the wind, as dozens of people are dying each week due to a pandemic that is spread through the air. Like many artists, Bob Dylan spoke out about injustices throughout his career. What can we, as artists, do to bring attention to the suffering of those who cannot protect themselves from COVID? Are we missing-in-action? Have we abandoned a society that has failed to support us, when artists have been suffering themselves?
Posted by David at 1/31/2022 09:32:00 AM

Theater artists on omicron: 'I'm tired of living through history'

Datebook: Allison Page was supposed to get one more chance to perform here. She’d given “two years’ notice,” she jokes, at her job as executive artistic director of sketch comedy company Killing My Lobster. Her long-planned move from Oakland to Nashville was set for April, and despite the pandemic and its constant uncertainty, postponements and disappointments, she’d lined up one last gig.
Posted by David at 2/03/2022 02:26:00 PM

There are no bad ideas

Friday, February 25, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, February 20, 2022

Worth a Look

Amazon Studios Rolling Out Diversity Playbook in Europe and Globally

Casting Roles with Nudity: Body Checks and Why They Never Should Have Existed

Hath Not a Jew Roles? A Case for Authentic Jewish Casting

Mexico’s cultural appropriation ban is off to a messy start

Why the Rust Shooting Didn’t Change Hollywood

Friday, February 18, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, February 13, 2022

Worth a Look

Data Leak Reveals Resilience, Inequity Of Broadway’s Reopening

'World's largest 8K UHD LED display' opens Winter Olympics

IATSE Releases Updated Federal Legislative Priorities for 2022

Walk with Amal: The Five-Thousand-Mile-Long Theatrical Provocation

Jim Kenyon: Scant pay may have backfired on Northern Stage

Friday, February 11, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, February 06, 2022

Worth a Look

Get Past the Lobby: Theatres Rethink How We Gather

It's become a different world

Protecting the creative economy during COVID: Arts and the artists drive local economy

Can artists wake us from COVID apathy?

Theater artists on omicron: 'I'm tired of living through history'

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