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

Actors' Equity Authorizes Strike That Could Pause In-Development Plays and Musicals

Playbill: Professional actor and stage manager union Actors' Equity Association has authorized a development strike against The Broadway League, a move that could see developmental workshops for plays and musicals put on pause. It should be noted this authorization has not begun an actual strike.

Posted by David at 2/12/2024 11:08:00 AM

Autistic Artists Should Be Telling Autistic Stories

HowlRound Theatre Commons: Theatre is a powerful force. The stories told onstage shape how an audience views their friends, children, and colleagues. It can be a great place to form an empathic connection with others and learn stories from different perspectives. However, when stories are put into the wrong hands, they can cause these perspectives to be seen as strange, leading the audiences to exclude those people in their everyday lives.

Posted by David at 2/13/2024 10:21:00 AM

IATSE, Low Budget Film Producers Fight Workplace Harassment

The Hollywood Reporter: Last month, Anita Hill’s Hollywood Commission released the sobering findings from its most recent survey into workplace abuse: Most of the 5,000-plus respondents said that they were now better informed on how to identify misconduct, but they had little faith in employers’ and the industry’s ability to address the behavior.

Posted by David at 2/16/2024 10:32:00 AM

Arizona Theatre Company’s 2-City Comeback

AMERICAN THEATRE: With the grim smile of a battle-weary general, Geri Wright recalls the “clopening night” of The Legend of Georgia McBride at Arizona Theatre Company in March 2020. Expensive and already popular in previews, the show closed and opened on the same fateful night when Covid-19 demanded that ATC—like theatres all over the U.S. and the world—shut down.

Posted by David at 2/15/2024 10:41:00 AM

Disneyland Characters Look to Unionize with Actors’ Equity

The Hollywood Reporter: A group of 1,700 performers who play characters and cheer and dance in parades at Disneyland in California announced their intent Tuesday to unionize with Actors’ Equity.

Posted by David at 2/14/2024 11:09:00 AM

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

Black Theater IS Black History

New York Theater: Ossie Davis, the author and star of “Purlie Victorious” in 1961; Leslie Odom Jr, the star of the play’s revival in 2024. Rose McClendon, who made her Broadway debut in 1926; Audra McDonald, who made her Broadway debut in 1991 and has won more Tony Awards than any other performer in history.

Posted by David at 2/05/2024 10:20:00 AM

Artists of American Ballet Theatre and AGMA Leadership Overwhelmingly Approve Strike Authorization

American Guild of Musical Artists: On the evening of February 6, AGMA leadership and the Dancers and Stage Managers of American Ballet Theatre voted overwhelmingly to authorize a strike. The Artists voted 95.6% in favor of authorizing the strike. This pivotal move follows an arduous eight-month period of negotiations that has unfortunately not resulted in a fair contract. During this time, AGMA Artists at ABT have been diligently working under an expired contract since September.

Posted by David at 2/09/2024 10:23:00 AM

The 1/52 Project: Funding Designers for the Future

AMERICAN THEATRE: Less than one percent of the designs on Broadway during the 2021-22 and 2022-23 seasons were created by Latinx designers, despite people of that ethnicity representing 19 percent of the U.S. population, according to data compiled by the 1/52 Project, a grant program that seeks to redress this kind of disparity. While women designers and folks of other ethnicities saw slightly higher representation rates than their Latinx counterparts, white male designers were still credited with nearly three-quarters of the designs crafted over those two seasons.

Posted by David at 2/07/2024 10:29:00 AM

New Technology Helps Artists Safeguard Their Work Against AI

mymodernmet.com: With the rise of AI, there's been an increasing need for artists to protect their work from the datasets used to train the technology. And with the leak of a list of 16,000 artists used to train Midjourney, there's been an outcry by artists for ways to safeguard their art. Until recently, the most popular method has been to “poison” images so they ruin the dataset.

Posted by David at 2/08/2024 10:17:00 AM

Is Dance Poised for a Union Boom?

Dance Magazine: Lots of dancers are union members—that isn’t new. Many of the country’s largest dance companies are unionized with the American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA), and dancers who work on Broadway are members of the Actors’ Equity Association. The Radio City Rockettes, Cirque du Soleil performers, and dancers at Disney and Universal theme parks are members of the American Guild of Variety Artists, and many other commercial dancers are members of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).

Posted by David at 2/06/2024 10:22:00 AM

There are no bad ideas

Friday, February 23, 2024

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, February 18, 2024

Worth a Look

Actors' Equity Authorizes Strike That Could Pause In-Development Plays and Musicals

Autistic Artists Should Be Telling Autistic Stories

IATSE, Low Budget Film Producers Fight Workplace Harassment

Arizona Theatre Company’s 2-City Comeback

Disneyland Characters Look to Unionize with Actors’ Equity

Friday, February 16, 2024

DP Weekly Wrap Up

Sunday, February 11, 2024

Worth a Look

Black Theater IS Black History

Artists of American Ballet Theatre and AGMA Leadership Overwhelmingly Approve Strike Authorization

The 1/52 Project: Funding Designers for the Future

New Technology Helps Artists Safeguard Their Work Against AI

Is Dance Poised for a Union Boom?

Friday, February 09, 2024

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