Theater - The Stranger:
Seven years ago, I left Seattle for New York—I abandoned the garage
theaters and local arts scene and friends and colleagues—because I was a
coward. I'd already tried to sell out once, by working at a shitty
Wal-Mart of a tech company, but I knew I would not survive in the
theater if I stayed. I fled to New York to bite and claw a living out of
the American theater as an independent artist because I was young and
stupid enough to think that would actually work.
The New York Times:
The barometric pressure affects it. So do the whims of air-conditioning
systems. Under the wrong circumstances, it could get whooshed into the
crowd the moment the curtain rises.
Stage fog is a delicate creature: whether as haze that hangs in the air,
a thicker vapor, or the low-lying kind that the lighting designer
Natasha Katz calls “Brigadoon” fog — the stuff that wafts like a cloud
around the actors’ ankles when it’s kept really cold, and rises higher
when it’s not.
jezebel.com:
A bill passed by the Georgia legislature that would allow
“discrimination against LGBT people and others by citing religious
beliefs” is currently sitting on the desk of the state’s governor,
Nathan Deal. But if he signs it, nearly all of Hollywood’s biggest
studios—including Disney, Marvel, and Viacom—plan on boycotting the
state.
The Producer's Perspective: So I have a theater. It’s on 45th St. and it’s named after my great grandfather, Delbert Essex Davenport.
Because my name is on the outside of the building, a lot of people think I own the place.
Truth is, I don’t own it. I rent the space.
I’m a guest of a non-profit and charitable organization that fortunately
for all of us believes that a theater on 45th St. is an important part
of the local heritage and community, instead of another hotel, parking
lot or a Starbucks.
Variety:
Bill Groom had barely celebrated his fourth straight Emmy win for
production design on “Boardwalk Empire” when he was approached to board
another HBO series, “Vinyl, ” set in the music scene of 1970s New York, a
world steeped in sex and drugs, even as musical tastes were shifting
from rock ’n’ roll to disco, punk and hip-hop.
