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Young Jean Lee

Playwright Young Jean Lee wrote an Op-Ed this week about the advantages of affirmative action in education and diversity in the theater. Looking at some of the faces below of the people who made theater news this week helps provide the proof — performer Billy Porter delivering the LGBTQ State of the Union; Qui Nguyen announcing a sequel to his “Vietgone”; Kenny Leon directing Shakespeare and Kristoffer Diaz writing the book for the stage musical Hercules, both in Central Park; a new trophy for Yazbek (David) and a new role for Yazbeck (Tony), both descended from Lebanese immigrants.    It’s bracing then to realize that it’s the theater that popularized blackface; for nearly a century the minstrel show was the most popular stage entertainment in America, and, as recent events make clear, it remains part of our cultural DNA. (See my Blackface on Stage: The Complicated History of Minstrel Shows.)

Off Broadway Week through February 24th.

The Week in New York Theater Reviews and Previews

  The Trial of the Catonsville Nine

More than half a century has passed since the Berrigan brothers, both of them priests, along with seven other Catholic activists, broke the law to protest the Vietnam War… The Trial of the Catonsville Nine” ran on Broadway for 29 performances in June, 1971, with a 16-member cast including Sam Waterston and James Woods… Now, the Transport Group is presenting what it calls a radical re-imagining of the playWhat’s changed most drastically is the staging. In place of 16 actors, there are now only three who juggle all the characters. All three of the performers are Asian-American

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Talking Band’s City of No Illusions

“City of No Illusions” (the title a nickname for Buffalo, since the Blizzard of 1977), which Talking Band artistic director Paul Zimet has both written and directed.  Running from February 8 to 24th at La MaMa, the play explores this connection between death and immigration in scenes that alternate between serious, satirical and surreal. The cast includes young performers who are themselves immigrants portraying the characters who are immigrants or refugees.

The Week in New York Theater News

The Band’s Visit album wins the Grammy for best musical theater album. Watch songs from all the nominees at Broadway at the Grammys.

Dean and I went up and accepted the awards but I’d like to shout out to the incredible musicians who are at the heart of the album- George Abud, Ossama Farouk, Harvey Valdes, Garo Yellin, Sam Sadigursky,Alex Eckhardt, Phil Mayer, Jeff Theiss, and MD Andrea Grody. Thank You Folks! https://t.co/jy0LMN6tBP

— David Yazbek (@DavidYazbek) February 10, 2019

Thirty-three-day #NotaLabRat strike by Actors Equity is over, with the Broadway League agreeing to profit sharing and higher wages.

  Anastasia will end its Broadway run on March 31, having played 808 regular and 34 preview performances. It’s already on tour internationally, with more tours planned.

Laura Benanti will extend her run by five months in Lincoln Center’s My Fair Lady, through July 7.

Congratulations to Edmund Donovan, winner of the Clive Barnes Award in Theater, for his role in Lewiston/Clarkston

Shakespeare

Kenny Leon

Daniel Sullivan

Al Menken

Kristoffer Diaz

Lear deBessonet

New Shakespeare in the Park summer season at the Delacorte:

Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Kenny Leon May 21 – June 23

Coriolanus, directed by Daniel Sullivan, July 16 – Aug 11

Hercules, music by Al Menken, book by Kristoffer Diaz, directed by Lear deBessonet Aug 31 – Sep 8

Thrilled that this is finally announced.

Beyond thrilled to finally officially get to play on the @PublicTheaterNY stage. Especially THIS Public Theater stage.

I love you, New York City. https://t.co/tlIKVJTxbI

— Kristoffer Diaz (@kristofferdiaz) February 6, 2019

    Florian Zeller

Jonathan Pryce

Eileen Atkins

Qui Nguyen

May Adrales

Jeff Augustin

MTC’s 2019-2020 season adds three new plays:

1. The Height of the Storm by Florian Zeller starring Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins, opening September 24

2. Poor Yella Rednecks by Qui Nguyen (Vietgone), directed by May Adrales, opening June 2, 2020

3. The New Englanders by Jeff Augustin, directed by Saheem Ali, opening October 2, 2019

Lincoln Center appoints Henry Timms its new president andCEO. Timms currently heads the 92nd Street Y and came up with the idea for #GivingTuesday. His new  job begins in May.

Tony Yazbeck et al to star in Marc Blitzstein’s The Cradle Will Rock, March 21 – May 19 at Classic Stage Company. “The 1937 premiere of this story of American class tension directed by Orson Welles was famously shut down on the eve of opening night by federal authorities”

Joining Alex Brightman and Sophia Anne Caruso in the cast of Beetlejuice on Broadway : Rob McClure, Kerry Butler, Leslie Kritzer, Kelvin Moon Loh, Adam Dannheisser and more! Opens April 25 at Winter Garden

Joining the previously announced principal cast of Reeve Carney, André De Shields, Amber Gray, Eva Noblezada, and Patrick Page in Hadestown will be Jewelle Blackman, Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer, and Kay Trinidad as the Fates. The chorus of Workers will be played by Afra Hines,Timothy Hughes, John Krause, Kimberly Marable, and Ahmad Simmons. The full cast will also include swings Malcolm Armwood, T. Oliver Reid, Jessie Shelton, and Khaila Wilcoxon.

Christopher Burney

Johanna Pfaelzer

Christopher Burney has been appointed the new artistic director of New York Stage and Film (responsible for Powerhouse season every summer at Vassar) Currently artistic producer at Second Stage, he succeeds Johanna Pfaelzer, who’s been named new artistic director of Berkeley Rep.

The Davenport Theater closed in January after five years. Ken Davenport, the producer who said he named the theater after his grandfather, has told people in the industry that he lost his lease.“It will not be a theater,”  a rep of the landlord told Philip Boro in Broadway Journal. “Maybe a gym.”

Congratulations to Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts, &snfAnijah. Lezama of Brooklyn, Kelly Lukito of Flushing, local recipients of grants/scholarships from The American Theatre Wing’s Andrew Lloyd Webber Initiative.

If you want theater to be totally accessible, you need to look larger: In NYC, “there are 550,000 residents who have difficulty walking. Two-thirds of them live far from an accessible subway station…”https://t.co/jouOjQoDDn

— New York Theater (@NewYorkTheater) February 11, 2019

Melissa Errico writing about Open Table, a musical about a family restaurant that she has been spending the last five years helping its creative team Adam Gopnik and David Shire put together, and how she realized the show is about New York City. (with a delicious exchange with Stephen Sondheim.)

  We’re here, we’re queer, and we ain’t going nowhere! @theebillyporter delivers the LGBTQ State of the Union on issues facing the #LGBTQ community, triumphs, setbacks, and looking ahead to 2019. 🏳️🌈✊#SOTU #LGBTQSOTU pic.twitter.com/xdubUj26mD

— Logo 🏳️🌈 (@LogoTV) February 5, 2019

  In an opinion piece in the New York Times — “I’m Asian-American: Affirmative Action Worked for Me” — playwright Young Jean Lee (Straight White Men, etc.) talks about her getting into Berkeley because of affirmative action, turned her life around. But she also talks about the theater:

“I’ve seen how increasing diversity can cause a field to flourish. The theater world is in the midst of a golden age of playwriting, and this has coincided with a concerted effort by theaters to diversify their programming. The next step is for theaters to produce more work by playwrights who come from low-income backgrounds, as our field is still dominated by the voices of the middle-to-upper classes. To achieve real diversity, I believe that affirmative action should be a holistic process, as it is at Harvard, encompassing class as well as race.”

  Rest In Peace

Albert Finney, 82, “angry young man” British stage actor, 2-time Tony nominee (Luther, A Day in the Life of Joe Egg), 5-time Oscar nominee (Erin Brockovich, Under the Volcano, Tom Jones, etc.)

Joseph Sirola, 89, actor and Tony-winning producer.

    Anastasia Ending. Hercules Coming to Central Park. Laura Benanti Continuing. Diversity vs. Blackface on Stage. #Stageworthy News of the Week Playwright Young Jean Lee wrote an Op-Ed this week about the advantages of affirmative action in education and diversity in the theater.

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A Pandemic Opportunity: Geffen Hall’s Overhaul Accelerates The coronavirus pandemic has dealt a devastating blow to performing arts institutions nationwide, closing their theaters and robbing them of ticket revenue. But for the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center, it has also offered a silver lining: the opportunity to accelerate the long-delayed renovation of David Geffen Hall. With concerts in the hall canceled since March 2020, construction began in earnest over the past few months. Work is expected to continue for the next year and a half, with a reopening planned for fall 2022, the orchestra and center announced on Monday. That is a year and a half ahead of schedule, though it comes with the trade-off that the Philharmonic will not be at Geffen for the wave of triumphant cultural homecomings expected around the country this fall, assuming the pandemic ebbs. The orchestra will nevertheless still spend much of its coming season at Lincoln Center, with the majority of its performances at Alice Tully Hall or the Rose Theater. Though it plans to announce its full program in early June, Deborah Borda, the Philharmonic’s chief executive, said in a video interview with other orchestra and center leaders that she anticipated smaller-scale and intermissionless concerts, at least at first. It has been, Borda said, “the single most challenging season I’ve programmed.” But, she added, “I think there’s going to be an explosion of pent-up audience demand. How many more Zoom concerts can we stream?” The Geffen Hall renovation is expected to cost $550 million, of which $500 million has been raised, Henry Timms, the president of Lincoln Center, said in the interview. He added that “significant” individual donations had been pledged, but that he was not ready to announce other naming gifts beyond the $100 million from the entertainment mogul David Geffen that jump-started the project in 2015. “Through 2020, quite rightly, people’s minds were elsewhere, and we had lots of other challenges as organizations,” Timms said. “But once we got to the end of the year, the opportunity became clear: Could we do this sooner? That became a period in which a lot of people stepped up to support the project, because they saw it as a recovery story, a way to invest in the economic and human recovery of the city.” The old plan had called for progression in stages to limit disruption to the Philharmonic, which would never have lost a full season in the hall. Katherine Farley, the chairwoman of Lincoln Center’s board, said the new timeline would not diminish the scope of the renovation, which aims to render the lackluster hall more aesthetically and acoustically appealing. Seating will wrap around the stage, which will be pulled forward 25 feet to what is currently Row J, bringing a greater sense of intimacy to what can feel like a cavernous shoe box. The new space will have about 2,200 seats, down from 2,738. The walls will be resurfaced to improve the hall’s resonance, especially bass frequencies. The cramped lobbies and other public spaces will be expanded and improved by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, who in 2019 joined a team that also includes Diamond Schmitt Architects, which is working on the auditorium’s interior; Akustiks, an acoustical design firm; and Fisher Dachs Associates, a theater design firm. Updated  April 5, 2021, 4:37 a.m. ET The Philharmonic has not gone entirely dark during the pandemic. In late summer and early fall last year, it brought small groups of musicians around the city in a rented pickup truck for pop-up performances, and has said it will be back on the road this spring. Its NYPhil+ subscription streaming service was unveiled in February, featuring archival concerts and some fresh content. On April 14 and 15, a contingent of players will appear in front of small audiences at the Shed, 30 blocks south of Lincoln Center, with the conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. (Jaap van Zweden, the Philharmonic’s music director, was not available because of commitments overseas, though he was in New York recently to tape two programs for NYPhil+.) But its losses have been crushing. The orchestra has projected that the cancellation of its 2020-21 season resulted in $21 million in lost ticket revenue, on top of $10 million lost in the final months of its season last spring. (Some of that has been mitigated by emergency fund-raising.) Even when live performances resume, despite Borda’s rosy predictions, the box office may not bounce back immediately. The need for savings that will extend beyond the pandemic was reflected in a new four-year contract agreed to by the orchestra and its musicians in December, which includes a 25 percent cut to the players’ base pay through August 2023. Pay will then gradually increase until the contract ends in September 2024, though at that point the musicians will still be paid less than they were before the pandemic. The renovation of Geffen Hall — which opened in 1962 as Philharmonic Hall and was called Avery Fisher Hall starting in 1976 — has been pending and put off for years, cycling through plans and architects. At one point in the early 2000s, the exasperated Philharmonic plotted a return to its old home, Carnegie Hall; that plan fizzled, further damaging relations between the orchestra and Lincoln Center, its landlord, which also uses the hall for its own musical presentations and for corporate rentals. Concluding in 2012, a $1.2 billion redevelopment of the center left improvements all over — but the costly hall overhaul was not included. Then, in 2015, Geffen restarted the project with the donation that gave the hall his name. Construction was supposed to start in 2019, but stalled well before that amid logistical problems and management turnover at both the Philharmonic and Lincoln Center. That plan had called for finishing the hall in time for the 2021-22 season. It was a schedule that the orchestra and center came to doubt was viable, but had they been able to stick to it, the renovated hall would have been ready to open just as the city hopes to emerge from the long pandemic closure. Borda was hired in 2017 in large part to put the renovation back on track; in her previous job leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic, she had brought the construction of Walt Disney Concert Hall over the finish line. In New York, she pushed for a scheme less flashy and more achievable than some of the proposed options — one less likely to overrun its budget and designed to unfold in phases, limiting the stretches the Philharmonic would be exiled. To be away from the hall for multiple years was assumed to pose an existential threat to its audience’s loyalty. Ironically, if Geffen reopens as now scheduled, the orchestra will have been out of its home for nearly two and a half seasons straight — exactly the situation that was so feared by its management. As for David Geffen, who expressed frustration at some of the earlier setbacks in the years since his gift, Farley said in the interview that she had just spoken to him earlier that day. “He’s a guy who’s big on efficiency,” she said, “and loves the idea we’re building it in one shot.” Source link Orbem News #Accelerates #Geffen #Halls #opportunity #Overhaul #Pandemic

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Timms to become Lincoln Center’s 6th leader in 5½ years

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Timms to become Lincoln Center's 6th leader in 5½ years

Henry Timms has been hired as president of Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts and will become the organization’s sixth leader in 5½ years.

The 42-year-old Timms will start in May. He has been at New York‘s 92nd Street Y cultural center for 11 years, starting as deputy director in April 2008 and moving up to executive director in June 2013.

Reynold Levy was president from 2002 until he retired in January 2014. He was replaced by Jed Bernstein, who resigned in May 2016 after 27 months following an investigation that determined he didn’t disclose a personal relationship with an employee.

Chief operating officer Liza Parker headed a transition team that led Lincoln Center until Debora L. Spar took over in March 2017 after nine years as president of Barnard College. Spar dropped the planned gut renovation of the New York Philharmonic’s home, David Geffen Hall, then quit last May. Russell Granet became acting president.

Timms, Lincoln Center’s 11th fulltime president, co-founded GivingTuesday, the philanthropic day that follows Black Friday and Cyber Monday. He launched a capital campaign for the 92nd Street Y that raised more than $160 million.

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Lincoln Center Finds New President and CEO in Henry Timms Click here for articles February 07, 2019 at 02:03AM

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Lincoln Center has new CEO and president

Henry Timms, president and CEO of the 92nd Street Y, is leaving to take over the same posts at Lincoln Center in early May, becoming the cultural institution’s third leader since 2013. [] "> To view the full story, click the title link. from Section Page News - Crain's New York Business https://www.crainsnewyork.com/morning-10/lincoln-center-has-new-ceo-and-president

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NEW YORK | Timms to become Lincoln Center's 6th leader in 5½ years

NEW YORK | Timms to become Lincoln Center’s 6th leader in 5½ years

NEW YORK (AP) — Henry Timms has been hired as president of Lincoln Center of the Performing Arts and will become the organization’s sixth leader in 5½ years.

The 42-year-old Timms will start in May. He has been at New York’s 92nd Street Y cultural center for 11 years, starting as deputy director in April 2008 and moving up to executive director in June 2013.

Reynold Levywas president from 2002…

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Lincoln Center Names New President: Henry Timms Of 92nd Street Y

“Lincoln Center, which has been buffeted by leadership churn in recent years, has looked to Broadway and academia for its last two presidents. They didn’t take. Now it is looking to the East Side of Manhattan, and to someone with a background running a large nonprofit cultural and community center.” — The New York Times

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