Archiving Technical Theater History

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“My wife's the reason anything gets done, she nudges me towards promise by degrees. She is a perfect symphony of one our son is her most beautiful reprise. We chase the melodies that seem to find us until they're finished songs and start to play. When senseless acts of tragedy remind us that nothing here is promised--not one day. This show is proof that history remembers. We live in times when hate and fear seem stronger. We rise and fall and light from dying embers--remembrances that hope and love last longer. And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside. I sing Vanessa's symphony. Eliza tells her story. Now, fill the world with music, love, and pride.”

News and Notes:

WhatsOnStage.com - Hamilton Broadway recording to be released on 3 July 2020 on Disney

WhatsOnStage.com - New week of performers giving live concerts from home announced

The Guardian.com - Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to watch online

Playbill.com - Broadway League's Charlotte St. Martin, Roundabout and Lincoln Center Heads, More on Advisory Council to Reopen NYC's Culture Sector

Playbill.com - Broadway Shutdown Extended Through the Summer Due to Ongoing Coronavirus Crisis

CITT / ICTS - Facebook / Relaunching arts and culture in the aftermath of COVID-19

USITT - Facebook / Website

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“You must strive to find your own voice because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are to find it at all.” - 

Robin Williams as John Keating in Dead Poet's Society

News and Notes:

Variety.com: U.K. Cinemas Won’t Reopen Sooner Than July 4, Government Confirms

Variety.com: Rachel Khoo, Gok Wan Shows Among New Discovery Series to Be Filmed at Home

Stage Directions.com: UNCSA’s Brett Sellitti Wins USITT’s Richard Hay Undergraduate Scene Design Award

Stage Directions.com: The Event Safety Alliance Releases Guidance to Assist Event Professionals Reopening During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Playbill.com: Regent’s Park Open Air Season Postponed to 2021

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Mother's Day Poem By Maya Angelou - “MOTHER, A CRADLE TO HOLD ME” 

News and Notes:

Variety.com - Unconventional Mom Movies to Watch on an Unconventional Mother’s Day

Playbill.com - Theatre Community Comes Together May 10 for Broadway Does Mother's Day

WhatsOnStage.com - 10 West End musicals to watch now on BroadwayHD

USITT.com - Website

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“Today it may seem hard we can’t mark this special anniversary as we would wish. Instead we remember from our homes and doorsteps. But our streets are not empty. They are filled with the love and the care that we have for each other.”

HRH - Queen Elizabeth

News and Notes:

Variety.Com - Queen Elizabeth Addresses U.K. in Rousing VE Day Speech

TheatreTimes.com - POLISH SHAKESPEARE ONLINE: MAJA KLECZEWSKA’S “MACBETH”

StageDirections.com - The Guthrie Theater Pushes Opening to March 2021 and a Truncated Three Show Season

Reuters.com - Musicals out, one-man plays in: Broadway gets creative waiting for show to go on

WhatsOnStage.com - Watch Andrew Lloyd Webber's Broadway musical By Jeeves right here for free all weekend

Playbill.com - Upcoming Cast Recordings

Playbill.com - Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: May 9

OISTAT Lighting Design Working Group - Facebook

USITT - Facebook / Website

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Little by little the look of the country changes because of the men we admire. You're just going to have to make up your own mind one day about what's right and wrong.    - Homer Bannon ( HUD 1963)

Variety.com - Will the Tonys Be Canceled? Broadway’s Biggest Night Might Not Happen in 2020

WhatsOnStage - Streaming has created the best free festival in history – but theatre needs donations to keep the show on the road

Playbill.com - National Theatre to Release Streams of A Streetcar Named Desire Starring Gillian Anderson, Coriolanus, More

Playbill.com - Lin-Manuel Miranda Launches Campaign Supporting Immigrant Communities Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

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"If you don't find the time, if you don't do the work, you don't get the results" - Arnold Schwarzenegger

News and Notes:

Variety.Com - Exhibitors Facing Challenges as Some German States Reopen Cinemas

Variety.Com - Norway’s Cinemas Can Reopen, but for Many It’s Too Soon

WhatsOnStage.com - Trafalgar Entertainment acquires Theatre Royal Sydney

WhatsOnStage.com - Yard Theatre announces Animal Crossing performance as part of free digital festival

Playbill.com - NYC's Shetler Studios Closes Its Doors After 30 Years

Playbill.com - Broadway Dreams Launches Virtual Training Intensives

USITT - Facebook

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“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me, too.  Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”  – Frida Kahlo

News and Notes

TheatreTimes.com - HOW TO SUPPORT THE ARTS DURING A PANDEMIC

Variety Online - U.K. Casting Directors’ Guild Calls on Film, TV Industries to Safeguard Theater

WhatsOnStage - Complicité's The Encounter starring Simon McBurney to be streamed for free online

StageDirections - in 1: the podcast – #97 Quarantine Happy Hour #5

Playbill.com - Michael R. Jackson's A Strange Loop Wins 2020 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

USITT - Facebook / Website

ATTH - Archiving Technical Theater History

Canon Timeline of Theatrical History - Website

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“When Gone Am I, The Last Of The Jedi Will You Be. The Force Runs Strong In Your Family. Pass On What You Have Learned.” 

"Do or Do not.  There is no try"

-Master Yoda

News and Notes:

TheatreTimes.com - “GATORS” AT TRAMP PRODUCTIONS

TheatreTimes.com - “BEAUTY & THE BEAST:” CHILDREN’S STORY, A UNIVERSAL MESSAGE

WhatsOnStage - Theatre News

Playbill.com - Playbill Vault's Today in Theatre History: May 4

USITT - Facebook

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Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world. 

-Desmond Tutu

News and Notes:

TheatreTimes.com - LOCKDOWN: A TESTING TIME FOR SURABHI THEATRE ARTISTES IN HYDERABAD

TheatreTimes.com - A THEATRE PROJECT EXPLORES COLLECTIVE SOLUTIONS TO SAVING THE OCEAN

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama - Radio Atmospheres 2020 Blog / Facebook

Society of British Theatre Designers - Facebook

Timeout.com - PBS is now streaming plays from its Great Performances series for free

Timeout.com - The 50 best plays of all time

WhatsOnStage.Com - Seven Disney films that belong on stage

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If you want to make a difference in the lives of the people you lead, you must be willing to walk alongside them, to lift and encourage them, to share moments of understanding with them, and to spend time with them, not just shout down at them from on high. 

-Tony Dungy

News and Notes

TheatreTimes.Com - “WISE CHILDREN” AT YORK THEATRE ROYAL

Stage Directions Magazine - Shure Webinar: History of the Unidyne 55 Microphone

Playbill.com - This day in Theatre History

Oistat Lighting Design Working Group - Facebook

WhatsOnStage.com - Stage shows, musicals and opera you can watch online now for free