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Friday, February 11, 2022

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Sunday, February 06, 2022

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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

Friday, February 04, 2022

DP Weekly Round Up

Sunday, January 30, 2022

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

Tony Voters Will Be Required to Complete Unconscious Bias Training Course

www.broadwayworld.com: BroadwayWorld has learned that Tony voters will be required to complete unconscious bias training beginning this season. Members of the Tony Awards voting committee will take a free, online training session, led by inclusion strategist Vernā Myers, which will teach them how to identify unconscious or implicit bias in their decision-making processes and how to correct it.
Posted by David at 1/25/2022 10:53:00 AM

Significant shortages and delays put live events at risk

Event Industry News: PLASA, the lead association for the entertainment technology industry, and #WeMakeEvents, the global campaign to save live events, have published a detailed global survey report on the current position and future recovery of the live events industry.
Posted by David at 1/25/2022 10:51:00 AM

Peter Dinklage Slams Disney's 'Snow White' Remake

www.themarysue.com: Peter Dinklage blasted Disney’s planned remake of Snow White in a new interview on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast. The Game of Thrones actor said, “There’s a lot of hypocrisy going on … Literally no offense to anyone, but I was a little taken aback when they were very proud to cast a Latina actress as Snow White. But you’re still telling the story of ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.’ Take a step back and look at what you’re doing there. It makes no sense to me.”
Posted by David at 1/26/2022 09:58:00 AM

Talking to the director about this radical 'Oklahoma!'

Chicago Tribune: Many readers have written in with their thoughts about the radical touring production of the 2018 Broadway revival of “Oklahoma!,” playing at the CIBC Theater in Chicago through Sunday. As I wrote in my review, this version of the seminal Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II musical strays from the show’s reputation as a hearty work of Americana — anyone heading out to see it should know it mostly does not deliver a feel-good experience, especially in its most radical last few minutes.
Posted by David at 1/24/2022 09:40:00 AM

72 hours of unpaid work? 'Unacceptable,' say dancers and critics of Super Bowl halftime show

Los Angeles Times: Hundreds of excited “fans” will pour onto the field while hip-hop dream team Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, Dr. Dre, Eminem and Kendrick Lamar perform during the Super Bowl LVI halftime show on Feb. 13. Viewers will probably see them move their bodies to the music. What they won’t see are the 72 hours they spent over nine days in unpaid rehearsals lasting as long as nine hours a stretch — and how they were asked to provide their own transportation and adhere to a strict confidentiality protocol.
Posted by David at 1/27/2022 11:20:00 AM

Friday, January 28, 2022

DP Weekly Round Up

There are no bad ideas

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'

Friday, February 04, 2022

DP Weekly Round Up

Sunday, January 30, 2022

Worth a Look

Tony Voters Will Be Required to Complete Unconscious Bias Training Course

Significant shortages and delays put live events at risk

Peter Dinklage Slams Disney's 'Snow White' Remake

Talking to the director about this radical 'Oklahoma!'

72 hours of unpaid work? 'Unacceptable,' say dancers and critics of Super Bowl halftime show

Friday, January 28, 2022

DP Weekly Round Up

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