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Housed in the Wisconsin Historical Society’s Library-Archives Division, the WCFTR is one of the world’s most accessible #archives and is regularly visited by researchers from around the world. Research undertaken in its collections has revolutionized the scholarship of American #cinema, #theater, and #television.
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Question for the theater folks: Is there any free open source software that helps manage auditions and casting, including paperwork, headshots, resumes, etc?
Searching for software for "casting" only returns stuff that lets you cast video to your TV.
Searching for software for "auditions" only returns Adobe Audition (an audio suite).
This is like finding a needle in a stack of needles.
Uff, wisst ihr worauf ich gerade so richtig, richtig Bock hab? Mal wieder zu #schauspielern.
Zum letzten Mal stand ich vor 20 Jahren (weia …) auf ner #Bühne, damals in der #Theater-AG in der Schule. Harold und Maude, Die Physiker, oder auch ein Abend mit Texten von Tucholsky.
In der aktuellen Pandemiesituation seh ich mich definitiv nicht drinnen proben oder spielen, aber vielleicht gibt's ja Remote-Laientruppen? Hat schon wer ein Stück geschrieben, das man als Videocall spielen kann…?
A friend asked me about what #musicals and plays her recently stage-struck daughter might want to see. I was full of ideas, and I found this excellent summary of #theater performances available on the various streaming services. Enjoy!
Today in Labor and Writing History July 10, 1925: The Scopes "Monkey Trial" Trial began in Dayton, Tennessee. John T. Scopes was a high school science teacher accused of violating the Butler Act, which made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. Scopes was found guilty and fined $100, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality. Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee wrote about it in their play “Inherit the Wind” (1955). However, they said that their play was a response to the McCarthy anticommunist witch hunt and a statement in support of free speech. Ronald Kidd's 2006 novel, “Monkey Town: The Summer of the Scopes Trial,” was also based on the Scopes Trial. Scopes was defended by labor Clarence Darrow, who had defended Eugene Debs, during the Pullman strike (1893); and Big Bill Haywood against false murder charges (1905); and the McNamara brothers for the false charges in the L.A. Times bombing (1910).
Live stage performance of Miyazaki’s “Spirited Away,” what?! Never wanted to see a play, but this may be my first if they come to The States. UK folks, they’re coming your way!
We're heading out to watch "Meg 2 The Trench" in a few minutes. Not the most stimulating cinema I'm sure but my daughter loves B monster movies so we're going to check it out. At least the theater has good popcorn.🍿
Have a good day everyone! Take it easy if you can.
I tried to browse movies to watch in the Cinemark app and it just kept waiting. I go to the website and I was met with this. It looks like someone at Cinemark needs to add some capacity.
"What do you do when your candidate is twice impeached and four times indicted? Apparently, MAGA Republicans will do anything to try and make it look like the score is even ahead of the general election. So here we are."
Today in Labor History July 22, 1916: Someone set off a bomb during the pro-war “Preparedness Day” parade in San Francisco. As a result, 10 people died and 40 were injured. A jury convicted two labor leaders, Thomas Mooney and Warren Billings, based on false testimony. Both were pardoned in 1939. Not surprisingly, only anarchists were suspected in the bombing. A few days after the bombing, they searched and seized materials from the offices of “The Blast,” Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman’s local paper. They also threatened to arrest Berkman.
In 1931, while they were still in prison, I. J. Golden persuaded the Provincetown Theater to produce his play, “Precedent,” about the Mooney and Billings case. Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times wrote, "By sparing the heroics and confining himself chiefly to a temperate exposition of his case [Golden] has made “Precedent” the most engrossing political drama since the Sacco-Vanzetti play entitled Gods of the Lightening... Friends of Tom Mooney will rejoice to have his case told so crisply and vividly."
In tribute, @dohappybelove and I went to see “Waitress: The Musical” in cinemas starring Sara Bareilles. Well done filmed stage production with a lot of heart. Hope to make this sort of thing an annual tradition on his birthday.
Happy Birthday, brother. I know you are dancing on that heavenly stage.
#TheatrePasseMuraille in #Toronto#Ontario#Canada has hosted "Black Out Nights" which it has described as "performances for #Black audiences" that are for "Black theatre-goers to experience theatre in a space made for them."
The #theater even has a protocol for excluding non-black people from the venue through on-site #reeducation.
'The digital archive includes over 850 plays and over 300 Black British, African, and Caribbean writers.... Alongside the extensive database of plays, the archive also contains a vast range of resources including over 70 video and audio recordings of play extracts, a bibliography of essays on Black British theatre and video interviews with leading practitioners and academics in the field.'
Actor Louis Gossett Jr., Oscar and Emmy winner, has died at age 87, according to his family.
AP reports: "Gossett broke through on the small screen as Fiddler in the groundbreaking 1977 miniseries 'Roots,' which depicted the atrocities of slavery on TV." He was the first Black man to win the best supporting actor Oscar for "An Officer and a Gentleman."