#union theatre

[shosty-we-understand]

Fun fact (which I unfortunately can’t back up because I heard it from a friend but it doesn’t make anyone look bad so I’ll share it anyways): Dmitri Shostakovich was quite the fan of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar! He saw a performance of it in on a trip to London sometime between 1972, its West End premiere, and 1975, the year he died, and was apparently quite impressed.

Pictured below is a photo of Shostakovich and British composer Benjamin Britten. The two of them were reportedly quite good friends.

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

1954 Soviet stamp of the Opera House in Kyiv, Ukraine.

[locallibrarylover]

if youre wondering about your shows during this time, i implore you to go see some live theatre. it doesn't matter if its a local community show or broadway. go see live theatre. the industry has been in a crisis for a while now & it's a great way to support artists while seeing something new without crossing a picket line 👍

[cannabisexual]

hey while we're still on the topic of the wga strike can we also talk about the insultingly paltry amount of pay stage actors across the board receive in exchange for the absolutely insane amount of time and effort they're required put into each production? assuming they get paid at all, as actors are often forced to work one, even two jobs to be able to make ends meet AND perform? is that something we can discuss or nah

[thekittyfox2999]

Hey, sherlock tumblr

do you have anymore information on this?

[volkswagonblues]

for the job meme: avoiding specifics so as to not doxx myself but i literally do work in a theatre 🫢 and lemme just say the tdv could afford to be WORSE

Ok so my thing is that I love the idea of Armand being an objectively terrible theatre boss just from an HR perspective... like my guy, the morale of this theatre is terrible and no one follows the rules anyways and also you keep the dead bodies of ex employees in the basement. And yet I absolutely believe you that there are human theatres that manage to be Worse. Incredible

[degasdyke]

ABT is going on strike!

[filmnoirfoundation]

NOIR CITY Returns to Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre Today!

Full schedule, tickets and Passports (All-Access Passes) available at NoirCity.com. Eddie Muller in person!

Saturday Matinée • January 20

DOUBLE FEATURE

UNION STATION

1:30 PM

Cops William Holden and Barry Fitzgerald race to foil a kidnapping plot in Chicago's Union Station. The film packs a double-feature's worth of thrills into its brief running time, including some brutality decades ahead of its time. Ace crime scenarist Sydney Boehm keeps the plot humming like a runaway train and director (and renowned cinematographer) Rudolph Maté makes the ride more vivid through use of actual locations. Costarring Nancy (Sunset Blvd.) Olson and a terrifying Lyle Bettger.

UNITED STATES (1950) Dir. Rudolph Maté. 80 min.

CAIRO STATION/ BAB EL HADID

3:30 PM

A newspaper hawker (played by the director himself) at the eponymous train depot develops a frightening obsession with a sexy lemonade vendor. That's the premise for a suspenseful drama which cunningly uses the bustling station to depict clashing strata of Egyptian society. Chahine's combination of gritty authenticity and psychosexual Expressionism created a landmark of Egyptian cinema—despite public boycotts over its unflinching perversity and politics. Costar Hind Rustum was nicknamed "The Arab Marilyn Monroe." In Arabic with English subtitles

EGYPT (1958) Dir. Youssef Chahine. 77 min.

TICKETS FOR SATURDAY MATINÉE DOUBLE FEATURE

Saturday Evening • January 20

DOUBLE FEATURE

ODD MAN OUT

7:00 PM

This intense manhunt thriller won the inaugural "Best Film" prize from the British Academy of Film Awards, and it remains one of the most highly regarded movies ever made in the United Kingdom. James Mason plays fugitive Irish Nationalist Johnny McQueen, roped into a heist that goes fatally wrong. Can Johnny navigate his way safely through a nocturnal nightmare of danger and deceit? Robert Krasker's cinematography is as good as his legendary work with Reed on The Third Man. An all-time classic!

UNITED KINGDON (1947) Dir. Carol Reed. 116 min.

VICTIMS OF SIN / VICTIMAS DEL PECADO

9:30 PM

NEW 4K RESTORATION  A film that virtually leaps off the screen. The music, the characters, the confrontations, the emotions—all boil over the top in this uniquely Mexican version of noir dubbed rumberas. Sexy Ninón Sevilla dances up a storm in a club featuring some of Latin America's top performers—Pérez Prado, Rita Montaner and Pedro Vargas—all while dodging a vicious pimp, defying her boss, and rescuing an abandoned baby from the trash. As André Breton is reputed to have said, "In Europe we talk about surrealism, in Mexico they live it every day." In Spanish with English subtitles

MEXICO (1951) Dir. Emilio Fernández. 90 min.

TICKETS FOR saturday evening DOUBLE FEATURE

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

On Dec. 30, Moscow communists and Komsomol members celebrated the 100th anniversary of the USSR by holding an impromptu event with the laying of flowers at the memorial plaque, "In memory of the creation of the USSR," installed on the facade of the Bolshoi Theater. It was in its halls that the First All-Union Congress of Soviets took place. Via Union of Communist Youth

[thestarlightforge]

Really useful interview with a rep from WGA-East with info for pre-WGA writers:

[carrotcakecrumble]

Girlies i saw pookie (Michael) bear (Sheen) with @inactivemcgee what a lovely little day

[rabbitcruiser]

The City of Los Angeles was incorporated on April 4, 1850.  

[thebowerypresents]

Adrianne Lenker – Music Hall of Williamsburg – March 18, 2024

Her sixth solo studio album, Bright Future, drops on Friday, and ahead of its release, Big Thief bandleader Adrianne Lenker was back home in Brooklyn on Monday night for an intimate, sold-out show at Music Hall of Williamsburg.

(Adrianne Lenker Shubert Theatre in Boston on 11/12-13.)

(Adrianne Lenker plays Kings Theatre on 11/18-19.)

(Adrianna Lenker plays Union Transfer in Philadelphia on 11/25-26.)

Photos courtesy of DeShaun Craddock | dac.photography

[libraryfag]

I will always defend cats the musical and I will never miss an opportunity to shit on andrew lloyd webber

[shakespearenews]

Formed in 1913, Equity currently represents over 51,000 professional actors and stage managers. The Drunk Shakespeare Chicago union would not just represent the performers and crew, however, but the entire staff, including servers and bartenders. Union leaders were able to get 100 percent of the Chicago cast and crew to sign their authorization cards, which might not have happened if everyone’s concerns had not been addressed upfront, Fent added. 

“It’s thrilling to be a labor leader at this moment in which arts workers across the country, like our colleagues in other industries, are claiming their power,” said Equity president Kate Shindle in a press release. “That’s exactly what the members of Drunk Shakespeare United are doing. These actors and stage managers, servers and bartenders have banded together to unionize in order to achieve a fairer, safer workplace, and Equity is eager to support their efforts. I hope that companies of other shows—who might not have realized that they too can have a unionized workplace—will be inspired by Drunk Shakespeare United’s decision to stand together and say, ‘We deserve better.’” 

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Krull explained that during the first weekend in April, the Drunk Shakespeare D.C. team suffered a company-wide COVID-19 outbreak, and half of the staff were out sick. Instead of canceling the shows, they said, upper management pushed the few remaining company members to do back-to-back sold-out shows that Friday. Both managers were out sick, so no management was there that night, and actors were tasked with operating both the light and sound boards despite having no training on either, since no stage manager was present.

“Actors would run onstage to say a line, run off to support stage-management tasks, and then run around to deliver or reset a prop before [returning onstage],” Krull described. “We were fortunate that there were no incidents with inebriated patrons on this particular night, but the staff on duty did not feel supported, and it was a catalyzing factor in our unionization.”