Where do theater artists go to ask questions? Poughkeepsie.
Guests outside the tent where Michael R. Jackson s White Girl in Danger was going to be performed at Marist College on the banks of the Hudson River in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., July 21, 2021. Lauren Lancaster/The New York Times.
by Jesse Green
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- For Michael R. Jackson, the question was quite specific. What kind of underscoring do you write for a melodramatic yet serious musical inspired by soap operas, Lifetime movies and Law and Order: SVU?
Jackson has been developing his musical, White Girl in Danger, since 2017, through so many workshops and readings that he can barely list them all. He had already nailed down the plot, about a Black performer on a surreal soap who schemes, from the blackground, to outshine the white stars and get a story of her own.
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A new Market Street Poster Series features professional artists and formerly unhoused residents in San Francisco s Tenderloin district to amplify neighborhood voices.
The San Francisco Arts Commission invited artists to reconsider, respond to, and reimagine the idea of a public monument. In this second installment of the series, Skywatchers, a program of ABD Productions, expanded The Opulence Project, using the highly visible posters to extend its mission of challenging the kinds of stories traditionally memorialized in monuments, a news release stated. For example, Wanda is the Goddess of Food, generously feeding her community. Dr. Dreame is SuperTrans, a superhero fighting transphobia on the streets. Joel is The Eternal Elegist, writing the grief of his community into dreams of resilience. Each of the nine portraits in the series uplifts the participant s desires, strengths, and joys. The release noted that portrait subjects worked closely with Skywatchers creative leads Gabriel
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