2026 Oscars Sets Production Team for ABC Telecast

hollywoodreporter: Also returning to this year’s production are music director Michael Bearden, production designers Misty Buckley and Alana Billingsley, lighting designers Bob Dickinson and Noah Mitz and supervising choreographer Mandy Moore.

Live Music Venues Are Hurting But So Are The Crews That Make It All Happen

www.forbes.com: There have been dire predictions regarding live music venues closing at an alarming rate as a result of the pandemic. Predictions run as high as 90% of venues will close by the time things return to normal, although many of the corporate-owned entities should survive thanks to the recent $15 government aid package. Almost overlooked is the fact that most of the live industry runs on independant contractors that aren’t eligible for big government aid.

Time's Up! Diversify The Stage Now!

Pollstar: Fitz And The Tantrums singer Noelle Scaggs, for much of her 20-year career, was already painfully aware of the many times she’d performed and been the only woman, and often the only Black person, on or behind the stage. By the time the nation was convulsed in May after the police killing of George Floyd, it was even more acute.

There's no HR on Tour, So This Live Music Couple Built a Roadie Clinic

Rolling Stone: Working behind the scenes on music tours often means long hours and lots of stress — but no official resource to turn to for help. “There’s no HR anywhere,” Courtney Klimson, founder and president of concert company Theory One Productions, tells Rolling Stone. “If something happens to you, who do you tell? And if you tell the wrong person, are you going to lose your job? If you say it the wrong way, are you going to be labeled as X,Y, and Z?”

The Job Is to Be Invisible, Not to Disappear Entirely

AMERICAN THEATRE: “I really don’t want to be onstage,” Steve Eiman said to their sixth-grade English teacher during their first theatre experience, a rendition of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. “Can I have the role with the least amount of lines?”

And so a theatre technician was born.

Now 26, Steve Eiman is a freelance, non-union general technician who works steadily in collegiate theatre, Off-Broadway, and Off-Off-Broadway. Or, to be more precise, who was working steadily in those realms until COVID-19 hit.

Coronavirus: Behind the Scenes on Tours Shattered by COVID-19

Rolling Stone: Paul Klimson, a veteran audio engineer who’s worked with artists like Justin Timberlake, the Roots, and Eric Clapton, was putting together a docket of upcoming shows across multiple venues last week. Then, suddenly, they were all axed in one go. A “text came through that wiped out $11,000 in gigs between now and at least April 8th,” Klimson tells Rolling Stone.

One of the (many) things that worry me most about the Broadway shutdown.

The Producer's Perspective: What’s going to happen to our workforce?

I’ll tell you what could happen. We could lose the very bright and creative personnel who we’re counting on to take Broadway to new heights.

The NY Times shared some of my nerve-iness in this article, where the writer talked about how so many NYC residents, especially the younger folks, fled NYC at the beginning the pandemic. And a huge subset of that group was from our very own arts and entertainment industry, since we laid off 78% of our workforce.

Behind the Curtain: Interview With Darcy Kane - Dresser on MOULIN ROUGE!

www.broadwayworld.com: Due to the global health emergency, Broadway theaters have found their bright lights dimmed and their houses dark for the first time in history. As the world works together to stop the spread of COVID-19, the theater industry has been put on hold indefinitely - theaters around the world have closed their doors in compliance with social distancing rules, and Broadway has been shut down in full since March 13.

Black Technicians Matter

SoundGirls.org: Before I get into this blog, let me say that I am writing this with very high emotions. My heart is breaking for BIPOC. I am horrified by the overwhelming lack of acknowledgment and responsibility in regards to the aggressive use of police brutality that has plagued this country for years, decades, even centuries.

That Show You Love? There’s No One on Set for It

The New York Times: Some five weeks ago those film companies that take your parking spaces, block your sidewalks and keep you awake at night shut down everywhere in the country and in most places in the world. “I’m in between jobs” is a timeworn Hollywood deflection to avoid admitting that you’re out of work. But now I’m part of an entire industry that is in between jobs.