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Irish Theater Loses a Voice | Irish America

By Irish America Staff
The creative community suffered a grievous loss when actor,
drama teacher, artistic director and founder of the Focus Theatre in Dublin,
Deirdre O’Connell, died at her home in Dublin on June 9.
Born to Irish immigrants – her mother was from Cork, her father from Sligo – in the Bronx, New York in 1939, Deirdre was encouraged by her parents in her desire to act from an early age. Her career began when she won a scholarship to Erwin Piscator’s New York Dramatic Workshop and moved into a flat with Jane Fonda and Barbra Streisand. While studying in the Actors’ Studio she was taught by Lee Strasberg and Allen Miller and was a classmate of Marilyn Monroe. ....

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S.F. Mayor London Breed proposes arts funding to make up for hotel tax shortfall

Funds would come from parts of city budget that outperformed expectations, such as property taxes.
Lily Janiak February 23, 2021Updated: February 26, 2021, 10:45 pm
San Francisco Mayor London Breed: “When we talk about our recovery from this pandemic, it’s essential that we include the arts.” Photo: Gabrielle Lurie, The Chronicle 2020
San Francisco Mayor London Breed introduced a funding proposal to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, Feb. 23, to give one-time support of $16.3 million to arts companies that would have been affected by a more than 80% shortfall in hotel tax revenue.
In the current fiscal year, the city anticipated generating $25.9 million for the arts via the hotel tax but collected only $3.9 million, as tourism nosedived due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The mayor’s proposed backfill, which is co-sponsored by Supervisors Aaron Peskin, Hillary Ronen, Shamann Walton, Matt Haney and Catherine Stefani, would make up for most but not all of ....

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Anti-Valentine's Day: How to celebrate in 2021

‘Dido and Aeneas’ Week with Mark Morris Dance Group
Cue the heartbreak, this week of dance-focused activities features on-demand screenings of the 1995 film version of Mark Morris’ ballet, set to the Purcell opera, about true and truly ill-fated love between a widowed queen and a shipwrecked prince, also featuring mischievous witches and a tragic death lamented by Cupid himself. The week also offers a live Q&A with Morris and filmmaker Barbara Willis Sweete, and “Dido Conversations” with Morris and artists involved in the ballet. You can channel your sad, inner Aeneas and learn some of the choreography from the ballet online with MMDG dancers on Feb. 10 and 13. ....

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The best Bay Area theater people to follow on Twitter

The best Bay Area theater people to follow on Twitter
When you can t gossip in venues lobbies, here s who can help you keep up with local theater chatter.
Lily Janiak February 2, 2021Updated: February 7, 2021, 11:28 am
Cat Brooks, the co-founder of the Anti-Police Terror Project, poses in front of a Breonna Taylor mural in Oakland. Photo: Yalonda M. James, The Chronicle 2020
For many of us theater lifers, the show onstage is only part of the draw. We also relish the preshow picnic tables at Cal Shakes, the cafe at the Exit Theatre, the bar and restaurant at PianoFight or even the BART ride home afterward, where we might eye someone else carrying the same playbill. ....

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Regal role in solo play rewards S.F. woman who finally pursued her dream of becoming an actor

Regal role in solo play rewards S.F. woman who finally pursued her dream of becoming an actor
Exit Theatre s The Snow Walk of the Empress Matilda follows the Holy Roman Empress on her famous nighttime, camouflaged escape
Lily Janiak January 24, 2021Updated: January 28, 2021, 9:23 am
San Francisco actor Catherine Luedtke in costume at Golden Gate Heights Park. Luedtke stars in the one-woman show “The Snow Walk of the Empress Matilda,” written by Stuart Bousel for Exit Theatre. Photo: Yalonda M. James, The Chronicle
In the 1990s, when Catherine Luedtke told a career counselor on Market Street that her dream was to be an actor, the response was, “You can’t make a living at that.” ....

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