Archiving Technical Theater History

Production Manager, Technical Director, Graduate Student, Ana Aguilera joins me in a brief conversation about some of the current topics happening in today's theater world.

 
The Theatre Art Life Podcast - 

Ana Aguilera - LinkedIn Profile

Thoughts on mental well being and being in the arts.  

Simone Biles withdraws from Olympics - Espn.com

"Why We Should Avoid Becoming “the Voice of the Voiceless”

https://inclusivus.org/inpowered-perspectives/2017/3/8/why-we-should-avoid-becoming-the-voice-of-the-voiceless

YOU DON’T! HAVE TO ENDURE IT - 

NE!MUSÍŠ TO VYDRŽET - in Czech Performance

European Theatre Convention Article - Click to read Article

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“Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing."   - Muhammad Ali

News and Notes:

TheGuardian.com - 'What even is theatre now?': the fringe artists left out in the cold

ExeuntMagazine.com - Theatre’s Left Behind Freelancers

Rescripted.com - Mass Resignation: A Letter from the Victory Gardens Playwrights Ensemble

USITT - Website / Facebook

USITT Education Commission - Facebook

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" Greatness Lies within you.  Under adversity some break records, while others simply break.  But the truth is we all have it in us to be great, and our destiny shouldn't be left up to fate.  So rather than wait I say forge ahead and create a future you dictate, and then stick two fingers up to fate"    -  Georges St. Pierre  (MMA Champion)

Variety.com - UK Cultural Recovery

WhatsOnStage.Com - National Theatre

WhatsOnStage.Com - Open Letter

TheGuardian.Com - British Theatre

BBCNews.Com - Sir Alan Ayckbourn

PlayBill.Com - Pride Plays

StageDirections.Com - The New Group

USITT - Facebook / Website

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In Memoriam - David Thayer

DT’s remarks - from the Celebration honoring his career, held on February 13, 2019 in Thayer Theatre in the Theatre Building

News and Notes:

TheatreTimes.com - “#GESTEZCHEZVOUS” PARTICIPATIVE PROJECT BY COMPAGNIE HIPPOCAMPE AND THÉÂTRE VICTOR HUGO

Playbill.com - Here's How to Support Freelance Immigrant Theatre Artists Impacted by COVID-19

WhatsOnStage.com - Curve Leicester to remain closed until November

TwinCities.com - Guthrie Theater announces layoffs that take its staff from 262 down to 55

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Remember me when I am gone away,

Gone far away into the silent land;

When you can no more hold me by the hand,

Nor I half turn to go yet turning stay.

Remember me when no more day by day

You tell me of our future that you plann'd:

Only remember me; you understand

It will be late to counsel then or pray.

Yet if you should forget me for a while

And afterwards remember, do not grieve:

For if the darkness and corruption leave

A vestige of the thoughts that once I had,

Better by far you should forget and smile

Than that you should remember and be sad.

 -  Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894)

News and Notes:

StageDirections.com - IATSE Endorses Joe Biden for President of the United States

WhatsOnStage.com - Derby Theatre: 'Theatres can be a key ally in regenerating communities'

TheStage.com - Supply companies: ‘We’re planning for the worst and hoping for the best’

The Guardian.com - 'Glimmer of hope': leading performers return to London's Wigmore Hall

Variety.com - ‘The Expendables’ Studios Nu Boyana in Bulgaria Re-Opens

USITT - Facebook 

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President Obama - Commencement Speech 2020

News and Notes:

Variety.com - Shakespeare’s Globe Could Close Permanently Due to Coronavirus, U.K. Legislators Warn

StageDirections.Com - IATSE Hires Epidemiologists to Consult on Reopening Procedures

TheTheatreTimes.com - THE INTERNATIONAL ONLINE THEATRE FESTIVAL IS EXTENDED UNTIL MAY 31, ADDING ELEVEN NEW PRODUCTIONS

StageDirections.Com - National Theatre at Home Streams Barber Shop Chronicles for Free via YouTube May 14 – 21

Playbill.com - The Daily Distraction: Tina Fey and Jonathan Groff Are 2 Lovers in the Amish Night

USITT - Website / Facebook

OISTAT - Website

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"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less."

- Marie Curie - Physicist

News and Notes:

TheatreTimes.com - INTERNATIONAL ONLINE THEATRE FESTIVAL 2020. A GLIMPSE INTO THE PHYSICAL THEATRE PERFORMANCES.

WhatsonStage.com - Sheffield Theatres to present outdoor performances of Shakespeare shows in 2020

StageDirections.com - in 1: the podcast – #98 Quarantine Happy Hour #6

Variety.com - Disney’s ‘Frozen’ Ends Broadway Run Due to Coronavirus

Playbill.com - Disney Theatrical Productions Reveals Next Steps for Hercules and The Jungle Book Musicals, Aida Revival, More

Playbill.com - Answering Your Questions About Convalescent Plasma Donation, COVID-19 Treatment Research, Antibody Testing and More

USITT - Facebook / Website

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“Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.” “Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.”  - Coach John Wooden

News and Notes:

TheGuardian.com - An industry in freefall: dance sector calls for urgent help

TheGuardian.com - 'We put on theatre no matter what': what will Australian stages look like post-pandemic?

The Guardian.com - Zoom with a view: how lockdown art classes are booming online

StageDirections.com - The Actors Fund Has Distributed over $10 Million of Financial Assistance

TheatreTimes.com - WIT AND WISDOM: “MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING” AT THE DELACORTE THEATER

Playbill.com - Playbill Teams Up With Pride Plays for Multiple Live Stream Productions Throughout June

Playbill.com - Remembering Tony-Winning 'Golden Girl' Bea Arthur on Her 98th Birthday

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"Somedays its just better to take the penalty than to argue with the referee." - RB  

News and Notes:

TheatreTimes.Com -SHAKESPEARE ON ZOOM: HOW A THEATRE GROUP IN ISOLATION CONJURED UP A “TEMPEST”

WhatsOnStage.com - People likelier to spend more money on cultural events after lockdown than less, YouGov poll finds

WhatsOnStage.com - WhatsOnStage announces the Lockdown Playwriting Prize

StageDirections.com - Metropolitan Opera Stage Manager Co-Authors Petition to Support Entertainment Industry Workers in the Worker Relief and Security Act

StageDirections.com - Next up on the Tech Table Webinar: KC Wilkerson Speaks with Projection Designer Aaron Rhyne

Oistat - Facebook / Website

USITT - Facebook / Website 

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“My wife's the reason anything gets done, she nudges me towards promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us until they're finished songs and start to play. When senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised--not one day. This show is proof that history remembers. We live in times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall and light from dying embers--remembrances that hope and love last longer. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. I sing Vanessa's symphony. Eliza tells her story. Now, fill the world with music, love, and pride.”
― Lin-Manuel Miranda

News and Notes:

WhatsOnStage.com - Hamilton Broadway recording to be released on 3 July 2020 on Disney

WhatsOnStage.com - New week of performers giving live concerts from home announced

The Guardian.com - Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch online

Playbill.com - Broadway League's Charlotte St. Martin, Roundabout and Lincoln Center Heads, More on Advisory Council to Reopen NYC's Culture Sector

Playbill.com - Broadway Shutdown Extended Through the Summer Due to Ongoing Coronavirus Crisis

CITT / ICTS - Facebook / Relaunching arts and culture in the aftermath of COVID-19

USITT - Facebook / Website

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“You must strive to find your own voice because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.” - 

Robin Williams as John Keating in Dead Poet's Society

News and Notes:

Variety.com: U.K. Cinemas Won’t Reopen Sooner Than July 4, Government Confirms

Variety.com: Rachel Khoo, Gok Wan Shows Among New Discovery Series to Be Filmed at Home

Stage Directions.com: UNCSA’s Brett Sellitti Wins USITT’s Richard Hay Undergraduate Scene Design Award

Stage Directions.com: The Event Safety Alliance Releases Guidance to Assist Event Professionals Reopening During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Playbill.com: Regent’s Park Open Air Season Postponed to 2021

USITT - Facebook / Website

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Mother's Day Poem By Maya Angelou - “MOTHER, A CRADLE TO HOLD ME” 

News and Notes:

Variety.com - Unconventional Mom Movies to Watch on an Unconventional Mother’s Day

Playbill.com - Theatre Community Comes Together May 10 for Broadway Does Mother's Day

WhatsOnStage.com - 10 West End musicals to watch now on BroadwayHD

USITT.com - Website

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“Today it may seem hard we can’t mark this special anniversary as we would wish. Instead we remember from our homes and doorsteps. But our streets are not empty. They are filled with the love and the care that we have for each other.”

HRH - Queen Elizabeth

News and Notes:

Variety.Com - Queen Elizabeth Addresses U.K. in Rousing VE Day Speech

TheatreTimes.com - POLISH SHAKESPEARE ONLINE: MAJA KLECZEWSKA’S “MACBETH”

StageDirections.com - The Guthrie Theater Pushes Opening to March 2021 and a Truncated Three Show Season

Reuters.com - Musicals out, one-man plays in: Broadway gets creative waiting for show to go on

WhatsOnStage.com - Watch Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical By Jeeves right here for free all weekend

Playbill.com - Upcoming Cast Recordings

Playbill.com - Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: May 9

OISTAT Lighting Design Working Group - Facebook

USITT - Facebook / Website

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Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire. You're just going to have to make up your own mind one day about what's right and wrong.    - Homer Bannon ( HUD 1963)

Variety.com - Will the Tonys Be Canceled? Broadway’s Biggest Night Might Not Happen in 2020

WhatsOnStage - Streaming has created the best free festival in history – but theatre needs donations to keep the show on the road

Playbill.com - National Theatre to Release Streams of A Streetcar Named Desire Starring Gillian Anderson, Coriolanus, More

Playbill.com - Lin-Manuel Miranda Launches Campaign Supporting Immigrant Communities Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

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"If you don't find the time, if you don't do the work, you don't get the results" - Arnold Schwarzenegger

News and Notes:

Variety.Com - Exhibitors Facing Challenges as Some German States Reopen Cinemas

Variety.Com - Norway’s Cinemas Can Reopen, but for Many It’s Too Soon

WhatsOnStage.com - Trafalgar Entertainment acquires Theatre Royal Sydney

WhatsOnStage.com - Yard Theatre announces Animal Crossing performance as part of free digital festival

Playbill.com - NYC's Shetler Studios Closes Its Doors After 30 Years

Playbill.com - Broadway Dreams Launches Virtual Training Intensives

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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too.  Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”  – Frida Kahlo

News and Notes

TheatreTimes.com - HOW TO SUPPORT THE ARTS DURING A PANDEMIC

Variety Online - U.K. Casting Directors’ Guild Calls on Film, TV Industries to Safeguard Theater

WhatsOnStage - Complicité's The Encounter starring Simon McBurney to be streamed for free online

StageDirections - in 1: the podcast – #97 Quarantine Happy Hour #5

Playbill.com - Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop Wins 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

USITT - Facebook / Website

ATTH - Archiving Technical Theater History

Canon Timeline of Theatrical History - Website

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“When Gone Am I, The Last Of The Jedi Will You Be. The Force Runs Strong In Your Family. Pass On What You Have Learned.” 

"Do or Do not.  There is no try"

-Master Yoda

News and Notes:

TheatreTimes.com - “GATORS” AT TRAMP PRODUCTIONS

TheatreTimes.com - “BEAUTY & THE BEAST:” CHILDREN’S STORY, A UNIVERSAL MESSAGE

WhatsOnStage - Theatre News

Playbill.com - Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: May 4

USITT - Facebook

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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. 

-Desmond Tutu

News and Notes:

TheatreTimes.com - LOCKDOWN: A TESTING TIME FOR SURABHI THEATRE ARTISTES IN HYDERABAD

TheatreTimes.com - A THEATRE PROJECT EXPLORES COLLECTIVE SOLUTIONS TO SAVING THE OCEAN

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama - Radio Atmospheres 2020 Blog / Facebook

Society of British Theatre Designers - Facebook

Timeout.com - PBS is now streaming plays from its Great Performances series for free

Timeout.com - The 50 best plays of all time

WhatsOnStage.Com - Seven Disney films that belong on stage

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If you want to make a difference in the lives of the people you lead, you must be willing to walk alongside them, to lift and encourage them, to share moments of understanding with them, and to spend time with them, not just shout down at them from on high. 

-Tony Dungy

News and Notes

TheatreTimes.Com - “WISE CHILDREN” AT YORK THEATRE ROYAL

Stage Directions Magazine - Shure Webinar: History of the Unidyne 55 Microphone

Playbill.com - This day in Theatre History

Oistat Lighting Design Working Group - Facebook

WhatsOnStage.com - Stage shows, musicals and opera you can watch online now for free

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“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
― Nelson Mandela

News and Notes:

TheatreTimes.com - “DE LEGE ZAAL: BROKEN SHAPES” – RIMAH JABR AND DAREEN ABBAS / MOUSSEM

TheatreTimes.com - DRINK FROM THE WELL OF YOURSELF: “PLAY IN YOUR BATHTUB” AS QUARANTINE COMFORT THEATRE

TheatreTimes.com - TRY AGAIN. FAIL AGAIN. FAIL BETTER.

USITT- Facebook   /  Website

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“There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us. There's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road. No other way. No day but today. I can't control my destiny. I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's only here. Give into love, or live in fear. No other course, no other way.
No day but today”

- Johnathon Larson (Playwright of the Musical "Rent")

News and Notes:

TheatreTimes.com - CULTURE MATTERS: LLUÍS PASQUAL, PEDRO ALMODÓVAR AND SPAIN’S CULTURAL SECTOR RESPOND TO THE SEEMING INDIFFERENCE OF THE COUNTRY’S MINISTER OF CULTURE

StageDirections.com - Live Streamed Webinar, Tech Table hosted by KC Wilkerson Premieres May 2, 2020 with Natasha Katz

StageDirections.com - A talk with BroadwayHD founders Bonnie Comley and Stewart F. Lane

Playbill.com - Theatre Community Bands Together to Help Children Affected by COVID-19 With The Homebound Project

Playbill.com - Celebrate Jonathan Larson's Rent With These 10 Iconic Quotes

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“What’s the secret of success? Right decisions. How do you make right decisions? Experience. How do you get experience? Wrong decisions.” 

– John Wayne

News and Notes -

Theatre Times - “ISOLATION” BY THE UNKNOWN PEN

Theatre Times - "ALEXANDRIAN ARTIST DANCES DURING QUARANTINE IN EMPTY PUBLIC SPACES"

Theatre Times - MUSICALS DOMINATING TEHRAN’S THEATERS: THE BOX OFFICE’S POPULAR TREND

USITT - Facebook / Website

Stage Directions - Backstage@Home: Antique Letter Writing with Props

Stage Directions - The Winchester Little Theatre Miniature Prop Room: An Eye for Detail

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"A wise bear always keeps a marmalade sandwich in his hat in case of emergency."

Paddington Bear

News and Notes

The Guardian - 'Theatre kept my mind so activated': the existential crisis of Sydney's 'standing ovation man'

WhatsOnStage - A theatre in Massachusetts is planning to re-open this August with strict social distancing measures and solo shows

WhatsOnStage - Rose Theatre Kingston launches poetry reading series featuring Christopher Eccleston, Angellica Bell and more

Playbill.com - Opera Philadelphia to Stream Its World Premiere Productions of Breaking the Waves, Denis & Katya, More

Playbill.com - 16 Theatre-Related Online Resources for Kids and Families to Get You Through COVID-19

Stage Directions Magazine - National Theatre at Home: Next up, Frankenstein Streaming for Free

Stage Directions - Facebook

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“There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with dignity, to celebrate and accept responsibility for your presence in the world is all that can be asked of anyone.”

— August Wilson

News and Notes

Passing of Tony Hall - Trinidad Theatre Workshop

Theatre Times - THEATRE DURING SELF-ISOLATION: DANGER AS OPPORTUNITY

WhatsOnStage - English National Opera to hold drive-in performances at Alexandra Palace

WhatsOnStage - Watch the Bring It On UK and Ireland tour cast rehearse in isolation

Playbill.com - Watch: Celebrating 50 Years of Company

The Guardian - Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch online

The Guardian - 'It felt like shutdown took my future': 50 creatives launch online dramas

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"The life of a play begins and ends at the moment of the performance. It is here that authors, actors and directors express what they have to say. If the play has a future, a chance to last, it can only reside in the memory of those who were present and who have kept a trace of it in their hearts. No form or interpretation is eternal. In theatre a form must be fixed for a short time, then it must pass. As the world changes, there will always be and must always be new and totally unpredictable performances".

Peter Brook

News and Notes:

TheatreTimes.com - THE MAGIC IS IN THE MINIATURE: TOY THEATRE THRIVES ONLINE DURING QUARANTINE

TheatreTimes.com - VR, THEATRE AND THE IMPORTANCE OF IMMERSION

The Stage - Coronavirus: Three more months of lockdown could end our careers, say 35% working in comedy

Playbill.com - Cast of Broadway's Sing Street to Perform Benefit Concert From Their Homes Around the World

Playbill.com - Watch Drew Gasparini's Virtual Concert for We Aren’t Kids Anymore

WhatsOnStage - Six musical releases worldwide performance from isolation featuring casts from the West End, Broadway and more

Scenography - Facebook

Scenography - POP - Palladio Olimpico Project
It is a new initiative of the Municipality of Vicenza to try to make the visit to the Olympic Theater innovative through a narrative model, conceived by Alessandro Baricco and the Scuola H]olden.

Now watch this video.

http://www.comune.vicenza.it/…/attrattiv…/teatroolimpico.php

http://www.teatrolimpicovicenza.it/

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“We define ourselves far too often by our past failures. That’s not you. You are this person right now. You’re the person who has learned from those failures. Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired.” 

-Joe Rogan

News and Notes:

Theatre times.com - ITALIAN RESILIENCE AGAINST COVID-19: SINGERS AND VIRTUAL CHOIR

WhatsOnStage.com - Olivia Colman and Gary Oldman to perform children's work in special online showcase

Playbill.com - Annie Dorsen, 600 Highwaymen, and More Among Artists Commissioned to Make Work for Onassis USA's Enter Project

Timeout.com - The best live streams and online initiatives by local theatre groups (Singapore)

EasternEuropeanMovies.com - Link

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“Integrity is everything to me. I will not die ashamed. I will live on my deathbed knowing that I gave it my best shot, and everything else is meaningless to me.”
― Lemmy Kilmister

News and Notes:

The Theatretimes.com - THE CRISIS STAGE - Posted by Lara Staal | 24th Apr 2020 | Essay, Germany, Theatre and Science

Stage Directions - OPERA America: COVID-19 Updates for Relief - Stage Directions • Industry NewsTheatre Buzz • April 24, 2020

Playbill.com - 1 Month Later: How The Actors Fund Is Navigating a Difficult Time for the Performing Arts Community 

Timeout.com - The best theatre to watch online right now

Orlando Sentinel -  ‘Virtually Yours’: Athens Theatre sells tickets to carefully produced show

USITT - USITT Facebook

USITT Webinars Schedule

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 “The weight of this sad time we must obey,
Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say.
The oldest hath borne most: we that are young
Shall never see so much, nor live so long.”
― William Shakespeare, King Lear

News and Notes:

TheatreTimes.com - MUST THE SHOW GO ON DURING THE COVID-19 OUTBREAK? - Posted by Nobuko Tanaka

TimeOut Sydney - Four female composers present awesome new one-act operas on Facebook  / Carriageworks Facebook - 

Playbill.com - Track Upcoming Virtual Theatrical Live Streams, Performances, Panels, and Classes

Stage Directions Magazine - Stratford Festival Offers Free Shakespeare Productions Virtually

Stage Directions Magazine - Joint Letter: A Message to the Working Professionals in the Entertainment Industry from Unions and Guilds

USITT - Resume Doctors and Portfolio Reviews / Facebook Page

USITT - Alex Pregel Sound design

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Show Quote:   “The Earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations.” —John Paul II

News and Notes:

WhatsOnStage.com - Shakespeare's Globe's The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream to be streamed on BBC iPlayer

WhatsOnStage.com - All or Nothing West End musical to be streamed on YouTube

Playbill.com - How to Support a Theatre Company and Stream a Show While Social Distancing

Playbill.com - Lin-Manuel Miranda Announces Virtual School Program, #EduHam at Home

StageDirections.com - Stratford Festival On Film: King Lear for Shakespeare’s Birthday

StageDirections.com - 2019 Stage Manager Survey Results!

USITT - Facebook

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Show Quote: The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results. (James Dean)

News and Notes

Theatre Times.Com  - Main Page

STREET PLAY “SHEHER-E-NAQAB” BRINGS AWARENESS ABOUT CORONAVIRUS - Article / Original Article

DRAMA DURING COVID-19: HOW THEATRE IS GOING ONLINE - Article / Original Article

Whats On Stage.com  - Main Page

USITT -Facebook 

Arri Lighting -Richard Cadena Webinar Series

"Woza Africa: Theatre in the African Context" is a free digital education resource from the African Theatre Association (AfTA) designed for secondary schools, drama/ theatre groups or interested individuals who may want to use it, especially with the current challenges of homeschooling.  - Link Here

VISUAL ARTS CONTEST -  Scenic Artists, Fabricators, and Set Designers - Facebook Post Taylor Acevedo

FTLO Theater is seeking visual artists to send in images of your paintings, photos, sketches, cosplay art, quilts, etc. inspired by the tale of "The Soldier and Death” (as can be seen summarized at the bottom of this post).

Your Artwork could be featured on FTLO's Facebook page and in YouTube radio play series.

Please send all submissions via FTLO Theatre messenger.

3 contestants of all ages will win $25 gift cards.
3 contestants under the age of 17 will win $10 gift cards.

So Get crafting folks! We can’t wait to see what you come up with. Stay safe and stay artsy.

The Soldier & Death:

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Stage Directions -  Facebook 

Stage Directions Magazine -Testing Company Classifies ETCP Certified Technicians as Essential Personnel

If you are an entertainment technician and are interested and available and interested in being contacted to aid in the effort, please sign up here: etcp.esta.org/helpfightcovid.

Further information from ETCP: https://etcp.esta.org/

WhatsonStage.com - Kiln Theatre will offer free online masterclasses for aspiring creatives during lockdowns.

Playbill.Com - New York City Ballet Launches Digital Spring Season

Facebook Groups to Visit - Archiving Technical Theater History / Scenography / Technical Theatre Educators

“I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.”
― Earl Lovelace

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News and Notes:

One World: Together at Home Concert : NY Times article / Youtube Video

USITT New@Noon and Forum@Four Schedule - Link

London Theatre Co. UK- Secret Cinema to launch series of immersive cinematic experiences to take part in at home

Asmita Theatre Group - Facebook Link - Indian College Quarantine Theatre Festival' by Asmita Theatre Group. Daily at 1pm at Asmita theatre Face book page and 11am on YouTube channel.

J4 Design - Website

Stage Directions Magazine - Behind the Scenes Launches Entertainment Industry Therapist Finder

Find links to resources, the online self-assessment tool, and information about the initiative and programs at btshelp.org/mentalhealth. 

Follow us @BeScene_BTS.

You can access the Entertainment Industry Therapist Finder at: https://www.helppro.com/EITF/BasicSearch.aspx

"Treat the Earth well.  It was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children.  We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

-Native American Proverb

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News and Notes:

Stage Directions - David Gallo Design Hosts Mystery Design 3000: Treasure Island

Stage Directions - 4Wall Entertainment’s Annual Vendor Showcase Is Going Virtual

Whats on Stage - Michael Ball, Captain Thomas Moore and NHS Choir release "You'll Never Walk Alone" for charity / Song Download Charity Link 

Playbill.com - High School Theatre Students Bring the Show Online by Olivia Clement / Oregon Thespians - Youtube Video

The Theater Times - THE STORY BEHIND ANDREW SSEBAGGALA’S “MOTHER UGANDA”

The Theater Times - JUAN MAYORGA: A VIEW FROM MADRID

The Theater Times - “THE CONDITIONS ARE NEVER IDEAL:” IN CONVERSATION WITH MELANIE LOMOFF

The Theater Times - THE THEATRETIMES.COM LAUNCHES THE SECOND EDITION OF IOTF: INTERNATIONAL ONLINE THEATRE FESTIVAL

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Ask help from the spirits after having used all your strength.  —Ugandan Proverb

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Shure Webinar - How to improve your Webinar Audio

Avolites - Avolites is here for you

Playbill.Com - Brian Dennehy Obituary

“The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you can’t see this house. You’d never know it was here. Or any of the other places down the avenue. I couldn’t see but a few feet ahead. I didn’t meet a soul. Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That’s what I wanted—to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself. Out beyond the harbor, where the road runs along the beach, I even lost the feeling of being on land. The fog and the sea seemed part of each other. It was like walking on the bottom of the sea. As if I had drowned long ago. As if I was the ghost belonging to the fog, and the fog was the ghost of the sea. It felt damned peaceful to be nothing more than a ghost within a ghost.”

― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night

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CNN.C0m - War veteran 'Captain Tom,' 99, raises $15 million for NHS as he completes garden challenge

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Stage Directions Magazine - The Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association Launches Student Sound Designer Connection / Facebook

Stage Directions Magazine - Statement from Actors’ Equity Association on Theaters Seeking to Resume Production by Michael Eddy

Stage Directions Magazine - Industry Pitches In: IATSE Partners with Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

If you live through defeat, you are not defeated. If you are beaten but acquire wisdom, you have won. Lose yourself to improve yourself. Only when we shed all self-definition do we find who we really are. - Rza (Wu Tang Clan)

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USITT New@Noon: ACT Lighting presents MA Lighting grandMA3 / sponsored in part by LightingTrainer.COM.  

USITT Forum@Four: Lessons Learned from Hurricane Harvey: The Alley Theatre’s Prop Salvage and Recovery Saga

The Prague Quadrennial (PQ)  free online resources.

Backstage Academy online learning resources  backstage-academy.co.uk/online-industry-training.

ARRI Academy “Lighting Systems Control” with Lighting Professional/Author Richard Cadena - Link

ETC Accepting Applications for 2020 Fred Foster Student Mentorship Program - www.etcconnect.com

ETC Introduces New Audio Learning Series: On Headset - www.ecconnect.com/onheadset

Stage Directions - Backstage Video: Building the Camp David Diorama at the Alley Theatre - Link

“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” - Golda Meir

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Stage Directions Magazine - Alley Theatre Rehires Laid Off Employees with Support from the CARES Act

Theatre Times - DONALD HOWARTH (1931-2020) PLAYWRIGHT AND DIRECTOR – AN OBITUARY.

Theatre Times - CORONAVIRUS HAS DIMMED THE LIGHTS ON LIVE ENTERTAINMENT. WHAT NOW FOR EVENT MANAGERS?

Theatre Times  - Website

Playbill.com - More Full-Length Andrew Lloyd Webber Musicals Coming to YouTube

"Never try to make the same record twice, even when people are screaming for the same sound." -  Chuck D (Frontman - Public Enemy)

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Passing of Wynn Handman - New York Post Obit

Stage Directions : in 1: the podcast – #95 Quarantine Happy Hour #3

Stage Directions : Union Stagecraft Technicians Aid in Temporary Field Hospital Implementation

Playbill.com - New Date Set for Streaming of Celebrating 25 Magical Years of Disney on Broadway Concert

Playbill.com - Metropolitan Opera to Present a Live Streamed, Globe-Trotting 'At-Home Gala'

American Theatre Magazine - DISPATCHES FROM QUARANTINE

BBC.Com - Arts and Entertainment - How live theatre is still running despite lockdown

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Alexsandar Lalicki Posavec, Andrea Bilkey, Anna Haas, Bob Foreman, Chris Van Goethem, David Oliver, David Savage, Ed Goetz, Evan Baker

Frank Mohler II, Gary Gardner, Geronimo Reyes, Gina Patterson, Hugh Chinnick, Ian Grey, Ivo Kersamekers, Janet Rose, Jodi Prahler

John Grimshaw, Joselyn Ludtke, Karen Kozlowski, Keith Otmos, Ken Coker, Kim Hartshorn, Lisa Cameron, Matt Frankish, Niali Washburn

Paul Garrity, Rick Arnold, Rick Boychuk, Ron Kepler, Ron Mahan, Scott Wasserberg, Steve Arnott, Suat Ufrj, Thierry Capéran, Todd Koeppl

Umberto Di Nino, William Anderson, Zach Ciaburri

It is not enough to hold the line against the dark. It is your responsibility to lead into the light. People don’t like the light—it reveals too much. But hand in hand with the creative artist, you can lead people into the wisdom that is known to all other animals: Simply, that it is the dark we have to fear.

—Edward Albee, Stretching My Mind (essays)

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Life of Diane Rodriguez - LA Times Article   /  NEA Arts Magazine Article

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Stage Directions Magazine - Soundgirls Host Theater Sound Production Webinar / Website

Illuminations Blog - Dina El-Aziz: Costume Design is Not for the Undecided

Archiving Technical Theater History -  Books of History - If you have book to share, please post and tag your post with #booksofhistory

Scenic Artists, Fabricators, and Set Designers - Facebook

Scenography - Facebook 

Einstein on the Beach Performance - Vimeo 

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OISTAT - Bakhrushin Readings 2020 - Music and Stage Conference at A.A. Bakhrushin Theatre Museum

World Stage Design 2021 - Website / OISTAT

ITI - The Tightrope with Peter Brook - 

The links are here:
Trailer: vimeo.com/simonbrook/tightropetrailer
English: “The Tightrope” streaming vimeo.com/simonbrook/thetightropeinternational
Password: lovelovelove (all in lower case)
French: “Sur un Fil” streaming vimeo.com/simonbrook/surunfil
Password: lovelovelove (all in lower case)
The video only can be streamed, not downloaded. Streaming possible until Tuesday, 14 April 2020, morning
Contact: contact@simonbrook.com

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"When we have hope, we discover powers within ourselves we may have never known- the power to make sacrifices, to endure, to heal, and to love. Once we choose hope, everything is possible." - Christopher Reeves

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USITT Webinar Schedule - April 13-16

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New York Times - Closed Theaters Are Nothing New. The Good News Is, They Reopen.

London’s playhouses have been shuttered before, by plagues and war for instance, but they have always returned as strong as ever.

Playbill.com - Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation to Distribute Over $300,000 to SDC Members

Stage Directions Magazine - Join Shure’s Next Webinar: How to Improve Your Webinar Audio / Shure.com

 Youtube - Sergei Parajanov Museum in Yerevan, Armenia - Սերգեյ Փարաջանովի թանգարան

HiSoUR.com - Art Website

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Trinidad Newsday - Online Edition

Dominica News Online - Website

St. Vincent and the Grenadines - News784 Website

Grace Quigley’s new online theatre company, Petronilla Theatre.  Twitter: @petronillamidia    Blog: Link

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama - Facebook

University of Idaho - Inland360 article

Archiving Technical Theater History - Facebook

USITT - Facebook / Website

Playbill.Com - Playwrights Horizons Debuts New Fiction Podcast With Works by Heather Christian, Robert O’Hara, and More

Playbill.Com - 2020 Williamstown Theatre Festival to Be Released on Audible  

"If you love what you have, then you'll have what you love."  Trevor Noah

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RWCMD - Facebook / Youtube Video

RITCS - Facebook 

PLAYBILL.com - How to Support a Theatre Company and Stream a Show While Social Distancing

Stage Directions Magazine - Broadway Theatres Extend Suspension Through June 7, 2020

PQ -  Facebook / Free Online Resources

Calvert Journal - Festival of Nothing 2020

"Passover is a time of reflection and joy. When we emerge from our cocoon of doubt to fly freely on the wings of faith." — Unknown​

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Playbill - West End Theatres to Remain Closed Until June

Youtube - Behind the Scenic:  Tips & Techniques for Scenic Artists

Geronimo Reyes on Archiving Technical Theater History - Teatro Alberto de Paz y Mateos - Caracas, Venezuela 

Stage Directions Magazine - American Theatre Wing Launches Relief Fund for Theater Artists Across the Country

Society of Israeli Theater Designers - Facebook / OISTAT

Playbill - Idina Menzel, Ben Platt, More to Take Part in Virtual Passover Seder Benefit

Muhammad Ali - "Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it."

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Trinidad Newsday

Trinidad Express

Vanity Fair Article - “A Semester With an Asterisk”: Coronavirus Is Upending Life—And Grades—For College Students

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In 1 - The Podcast: #94 Quarantine Happy Hour #2 

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“The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.