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How Mental Health Is Taking Its Toll on Touring Artists
consequence.net: In September 2022, Santigold made her long-awaited return with her first album in six years, Spirituals. Naturally, she had been planning a tour in support of it. But a few weeks after the project’s release, she revealed in a detailed personal note on Instagram that she just couldn’t make it work. Not only did she cite the financial barriers that she and other artists are facing with heading back on the road after more than two years of COVID restrictions, but she brought up how her mental health had contributed to her decision.Set Safety Concerns Among Crew Whispered About As Production Ramps Up
The Hollywood Reporter: One of my first days back on a TV set after pandemic shutdowns didn’t turn out as planned. On a summer morning, I arrived around 7 a.m. for the filming of a reality lifestyle show where I was working as a field producer. The plan was to demo a home, but simmering tensions involving the on-camera talent escalated into a moment of shock for crew as a hammer went flying across the room, leaving a hole in the wall.Death threats aimed at OSF artistic director Nataki Garrett prompt outpouring
NPR: When Nataki Garrett began to receive death threats early this year, she said her impulse was to retreat. "When this first happened, I actually tried to isolate myself," said the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) artistic director in an interview with NPR. "The act of threatening is supposed to make you feel isolated. And it does."Hollywood Studios and Unions Extend COVID Safety Protocols Through January
www.thewrap.com: After weeks of talks, Hollywood’s studios and unions have agreed to another extension of the Return to Work Agreement, the set of COVID-19 safety protocols that have governed all film and television productions since September 2020. The extension will now last through January 31, 2023.The Audio Describer: Bringing Live Theater to Those with Vision Problems
Newcity Stage: Emily Means Wills is a guide to theatrical action—a careful narrator of the balled fist, the glance at the door, the cow doing the can-can. She doesn’t want to say a woman looked at a man “desperately”—that’s interpretation. So she’ll say the woman looked, and kept looking. She once had to figure out a way, during a performance of “Midnight Cowboy” at Lifeline Theatre, to describe a “super-grisly” scene of a big black phone getting jammed into someone’s mouth, and blood going everywhere.
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