Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...
Profile: The Pittsburgh Promoter, Dawn Keezer
Pittsburgh Magazine: Dawn Keezer says she can sell just about any filmmaker on Pittsburgh. Whether you’re making a movie set in Paris, San Francisco or New York, the fast-talking executive director of the Pittsburgh Film Office has got you covered. “We do New York better than New York does,” says Keezer. “Because here you can shut down one street and be in midtown Manhattan,” no massive traffic jam required. She says it with such conviction that you get the sense she could win an argument against a hardcore Yankees fan.
Slave Play: how policing audience phones during nude scene affects the meaning of the production
theconversation.com: As I joined the long queue outside London’s Noël Coward Theatre for Jeremy O. Harris’s Slave Play, I was greeted by an usher who asked to see my phone. When I produced my mobile, the usher put a sticker over my phone’s camera that said “Starbucks!” (an inside joke from the play, I later discovered). Several times before we took our seats, ushers verified that the stickers on our phones were in place.
Inside the Deceptively Simple Costume Design of Broadway's Job
Playbill: Seeing the costumes in Broadway's Job—currently running at the Hayes Theater through October 27—it looks like the characters have just worn their own, regular street clothes. But behind that simplicity is a designer intimately linked with the text and subtext of the play and its characters. See costume designer Michelle J. Li reveal the care that went into her work on the Max Wolf Friedlich play in the video above.
Excellence in Theatre Education Award Winner CJay Philip Unpacks the Importance of Arts Education
www.broadwayworld.com: "I want my students to know that art is connective. It helps us to see each other- to be moved.” explained 2024 Excellence in Theatre Education Award winner CJay Philip. “It gets at the soul and the core of us as creative beings."
Here are the best photos from Burning Man 2024
www.sfgate.com: Burning Man is over, and Black Rock City is no more. The last embers of Burning Man’s temple burn have gone out, and the city’s inhabitants have vacated the desert through a dust storm and hourslong traffic jam. But even as the desert festival plans to leave no trace in the Nevada desert, it leaves a colorful trail of photos in its wake.
