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Friday, November 11, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, November 06, 2022

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

Q&A with New Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Leader Kendra Whitlock Ingram

onStage Pittsburgh: Kendra Whitlock Ingram wasn’t looking to leave her post as head of the Marcus Performing Arts Center in Milwaukee after three years on the job. But the allure of Pittsburgh was too much to pass up. The new president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust – effective Feb. 1, 2023 – was on a Zoom call Tuesday, a little more than an hour after her appointment was announced.

Posted by David at 11/03/2022 10:25:00 AM
Coming Out of the Shadow of Colonialism, Hula Today is Experiencing a Renaissance

Dance Magazine: In a flowing blue-green gown, her arms bare, her long hair swept up elegantly and encircled with blossoms, Kayli Ka‘iulani Carr confidently took the stage at the 2016 Miss Aloha Hula contest in Hilo, Hawai‘i. This was the modern portion of a high-pressure contest, and she danced to the aching melody of “Ka Makani Ka‘ili Aloha,” which tells a story of a heartbroken lover who summons a magical, “love-snatching” wind to recapture the heart of his beloved. Carr dazzled the judges, the audience and the social media world.

Posted by David at 10/31/2022 10:52:00 AM
Glimpses of Life with the Sea Clown Sailing Circus Troupe

The New York Times: They arrive from the port with their colorful clothes and their well-worn musical instruments, parading through the village and performing at the various squares. Islanders view them with a mix of awe and wonder. At times they look like superheroes, moving together to the rhythm of the music, conjuring tricks like magicians.

Posted by David at 11/01/2022 10:32:00 AM
On Holy Ground: The National Black Theatre Festival

AMERICAN THEATRE: Ben Vereen sat across from us one August morning at breakfast in the Winston-Salem Marriott, enthusing about his first visit to the National Black Theatre Festival in North Carolina; the previous he night he had been given the festival’s Sidney Poitier Award. “I was so touched,” he said. “When my buddy Stokes started reading the introduction, I thought he was talking about someone else.

Posted by David at 10/31/2022 10:41:00 AM
Blow, Winds: Florida Theatres After Hurricane Ian

AMERICAN THEATRE: The last weekend in September, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill opened in the black box space inside Florida Repertory Theatre’s 100-year-old home in Fort Myers, despite warnings of a hurricane headed further up the west coast toward Tampa. Ninety-six hours, a sudden right turn in Ian’s path, 115 mph winds and 6 to 28 feet of storm surge later, the show did not go on.

Posted by David at 10/31/2022 10:53:00 AM

Friday, November 04, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, October 30, 2022

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

Minneapolis's Penumbra Theatre looks to the past to create its future

NPR: Recovering from the worst days of the pandemic has been daunting for America's 1,800 regional theaters. But some, thanks to philanthropic help, are using this moment as an opportunity for reinvention.

Posted by David at 10/26/2022 10:56:00 AM
Rust Settlement: Why Halyna Hutchins’ Widower Dropped Suit

The Hollywood Reporter: A year after Alec Baldwin accidentally shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the New Mexico set of Rust, the producers, still facing civil litigation and under a cloud of potential criminal liability, are looking to finish the film in the next few months. Key to this gambit is a private settlement with Hutchins’ estate, announced Oct. 5, which is pending court approval. The plan both ends the wrongful death action brought by Hutchins’ family on Feb. 15 and makes her widower, Matthew, an executive producer on the movie.

Posted by David at 10/26/2022 11:06:00 AM
At Pornhub's Consent Event, Chloë Sevigny Reflects on On-Screen Sex

Variety: Johnson expanded on that in an interview with Variety, explaining that on a project that hires an intimacy coordinator, scenarios like what Sevigny described are far less likely to happen. “That’s challenging, talking about mutable contracts. But I will say, in my experience as an intimacy coordinator, we don’t have that happen on the day.

Posted by David at 10/27/2022 11:16:00 AM
'A vindictive, passive-aggressive move': Bay Area community theater faces allegations of racism, workplace misconduct

Datebook: When LaMont Ridgell learned in March that he’d be getting a different director for an upcoming production at Altarena Playhouse, he had questions. His role as a devout Catholic in “Quality of Life” hadn’t traditionally been played by a Black man, and he wanted to make sure his new director, Katina Letheule, also the artistic director of the Alameda community theater, had thought through what his casting would mean.

Posted by David at 10/27/2022 11:10:00 AM
MJ the Musical: A production that doesn’t look at the man in the mirror? No thanks

The Independent: When MJ the Musical – a major new Broadway show about Michael Jackson – opened earlier this year, a few reviews referenced the same song from the King of Pop’s back catalogue. “In MJ, No One’s Looking at the Man in the Mirror,” ran the headline from The New York Times. “Mesmerising parade of hits doesn’t look in the mirror,” went The Guardian’s. AP News was more direct – “Some thriller, lots bad” – while Vulture went niche, declaring that “MJ Exists in a Hyperbaric Chamber of Denial”.

Posted by David at 10/24/2022 10:12:00 AM

Friday, October 28, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, October 23, 2022

Worth a Look

Here are a few posts from last weeks Greenpage that might be worth your time...

Find Out Why Everyone Was Talking About Broadway's 1776 This Weekend

Playbill: If you spent any time on social media over the weekend as a theatre fan (and if you're not a theatre fan, you're not reading this) you probably saw that 1776 became quite the hot topic, specifically company member Sara Porkalob.

Posted by David at 10/18/2022 11:19:00 AM
Challenging “Certification”: Revising Hiring Practices in Fight and Intimacy Choreography

HowlRound Theatre Commons: As fight directors, designers of intimacy, actors, and dramaturgs that work with theatrical violence and violence pedagogy, we both have encountered a lot of language around “certification” as it pertains to fight and intimacy directors. Wanting to delve deeper into this notion of certification in fight and intimacy choreography, we sat down to share our experiences in the field, gain a clear picture on what training is currently available for fight directors and intimacy coordinators, and discuss alternative types of qualifications and credentials to look for when hiring in lieu of certification.

Posted by David at 10/19/2022 10:17:00 AM
The Bruce Willis Deepfake Is Everyone’s Problem

WIRED: Jean-Luc Godard once claimed, regarding cinema, “When I die, it will be the end.” Godard passed away last month; film perseveres. Yet artificial intelligence has raised a kindred specter: that humans may go obsolete long before their artistic mediums do. Novels scribed by GPT-3; art conjured by DALL·E—machines could be making art long after people are gone. Actors are not exempt. As deepfakes evolve, fears are mounting that future films, TV shows, and commercials may not need them at all.

Posted by David at 10/18/2022 11:22:00 AM
Patti LuPone Explains Decision to Leave 'Worst Union' Actors' Equity

people.com/theater: Has Patti LuPone possibly taken her final bow on the Broadway stage? On Monday, she announced that she's leaving the Actors' Equity Association (AEA). The American Horror Story star, 73, explains to PEOPLE that she's done with what she calls the "worst union" after five decades as a member. A rep for AEA did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.

Posted by David at 10/19/2022 10:13:00 AM
Maurice Hines on Why Black Tap Dancers Deserve More Credit

Dance Magazine: As youngsters, my brother, Gregory, and I went to the Apollo Theater in Harlem to watch tap greats like Teddy Hale, Bunny Briggs, the Step Brothers and Coles & Atkins. Most of those guys would come on the stage and just tap. They were making it up as they went along, and that’s what made them so exciting to watch. Later in our career, we paid homage to those legendary hoofers in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club.

Posted by David at 10/20/2022 02:51:00 PM

There are no bad ideas

Friday, November 11, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, November 06, 2022

Worth a Look

Q&A with New Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Leader Kendra Whitlock Ingram

Coming Out of the Shadow of Colonialism, Hula Today is Experiencing a Renaissance

Glimpses of Life with the Sea Clown Sailing Circus Troupe

On Holy Ground: The National Black Theatre Festival

Blow, Winds: Florida Theatres After Hurricane Ian

Friday, November 04, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, October 30, 2022

Worth a Look

Minneapolis's Penumbra Theatre looks to the past to create its future

Rust Settlement: Why Halyna Hutchins’ Widower Dropped Suit

At Pornhub's Consent Event, Chloë Sevigny Reflects on On-Screen Sex

'A vindictive, passive-aggressive move': Bay Area community theater faces allegations of racism, workplace misconduct

MJ the Musical: A production that doesn’t look at the man in the mirror? No thanks

Friday, October 28, 2022

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, October 23, 2022

Worth a Look

Find Out Why Everyone Was Talking About Broadway's 1776 This Weekend

Challenging “Certification”: Revising Hiring Practices in Fight and Intimacy Choreography

The Bruce Willis Deepfake Is Everyone’s Problem

Patti LuPone Explains Decision to Leave 'Worst Union' Actors' Equity

Maurice Hines on Why Black Tap Dancers Deserve More Credit

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