December BGA Green Sheet

Michael Crowley just sent over the December issue of the Broadway Green Alliance “Green Sheet.”
He asks that we please stay tuned to www.broadwaygreen.com, as the new BGA website should be going live next week.
As always, please keep him abreast of green practices that are helping your organization save money and instill environmentally sound thinking into staff, artists [...]

greening mo`olelo new york style « Mo`olelo Blog

Mo`olelo’s Artistic Director, Seema Sueko, is heading to New York this weekend to participate in TCG’s (Theatre Communication Group’s) Fall Forum! She’ll be speaking at a breakout session called “The Green Opportunity” at 2:30 PM on Saturday, Nov 7, where she’ll talk about Mo`olelo’s greening initiative and share the latest versions of the Green Theater [...]

coming back at life

It’s been three months since I had major surgery to remove half of the lymph nodes in my abdomen (about twenty) to clear out the final vestiges of my cancer — a thing that no longer lurks within me, but has forever changed me physically, emotionally, and psychologically. Some for the better, some for the [...]

Broadways First Green Theater // Current

“Henry Miller’s Theater, the first newly built Broadway house in more than 20 years — and the first so-called green theater on the Great White Way — has completed major construction and is set to open in September with Roundabout Theater Company’s revival of the musical “Bye Bye Birdie.”
The 1,055-seat theater, on 43rd Street between [...]

Theaters in Trouble

A few articles out there on economic trouble putting theaters in peril and even closing their doors:
On Blog Stage: More Shows Are Closings, But Broadway Is Optimistic
The list of Broadway shows closing in January has reached double digits, the New York Daily News noted yesterday. Many of those are early curtain calls related to a struggling economy, as we’ve [...]

In the Audience

I’ve worked in theater in some form or another since high school. I have had a bad habit throughout my life in theater of being the type who says (or at least thinks) “I don’t want to go watch theater, I see so much of it from backstage, from the booth, I see it in [...]

NYC’s Great White Way Is Going Green

NEW YORK (AP) — The Great White Way is going green.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg – with the help of green friends like ”Wicked” witch Elphaba — launched the ”Broadway Goes Green” initiative Tuesday that includes plans to use energy-saving bulbs and recycle stage sets.
The aim of the campaign is to reduce Broadway’s carbon footprint, a measure of greenhouse [...]