Brandon Carter, a resident actor with ASC since 2018, assumes the directorship in a new management structure that the company describes as “a coequal group of individuals” running other departments such as operations, production and engagement. - Washington Post
We're not all in this together, clearly. The Broadway League "proposed to the unions representing Broadway workers that those workers take a 50 percent pay cut during so-called 'COVID pauses.'" That's not going well. - The Daily Beast
Hey, there's money, and then there's art. Rylance: "Theatre is so flexible and it’s so different from being an actor in a film. It’s a thousand times more enjoyable." - The Guardian (UK)
Erin Cronican says, "It’s a very complicated acting challenge. In rehearsals when I open up, I just start crying. We don’t want to create that situation where I’m so fragile all the time." And omicron has made it all so much more fraught. - American Theatre
"When he returned to Broadway in 1959 for the premiere of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, he was already famous" - and the play might not have been mounted without him. - Los Angeles Times
File this under Covid stories: A woman who performed with Wicked's national tour and Broadway ensemble as Elphaba's understudy but left theatre in 2015 got the call in late December, flew to New York, and stepped into the cast. - Vulture
"The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright (Ruined, Sweat, Clyde's) breaks down her remarkable career and shares how, as an optimist at heart, she finds the light and resilience in unexpected stories." (audio) - WNYC (New York City)
To be sure, Jesse Green and Maya Phillips disagree in a most collegial and cordial manner. Indeed, they value their disagreement (not least because it took them a while to find some). - The New York Times
Box office rebounded, climbing to $26 million from Christmas Week’s grim, Covid-decimated $14 million. That’s an overall, week-to-week increase of 87%, and reflects a tally largely in keeping with recent pre-Christmas Week figures. - Deadline
The union didn't even have an organizing department until 2017, and it has just created the post of Mobilization Director. Stefanie Frey, a stage manager by trade, has been involved in many of the gains Equity has negotiated in recent years. - Observer (New York City)
The Public announced the cancellation on Twitter today. Considered one of the top international theater festivals focusing on new work, Under The Radar 2022 had been set to run from Jan. 12-30. - Deadline
Jesse Green: "It seems to me that designers, bringing evermore astonishing prowess to bear, too often outshine the work they are meant to support. As if to compensate, the stories are getting dimmer. … Hyperdesign is a hint that something fundamental is missing." - The New York Times
