‘The White Lotus’ asks, what does your holiday wardrobe say about you?

Vogue Australia: At The White Lotus—television’s most drama-filled, badly behaved and sexed-up resort—things are never what they seem. And try as you might, you can never truly escape who you are, even on holiday. But, as the award-winning television series’ costume designer Alex Bovaird points out, we are nevertheless tantalised by the idea that we can become someone else when we are far away from home.

Every Major Electric Piano & Keyboard Brand Ranked According To User Reviews

www.slashgear.com: There's a big chance that you're in one of two camps when it comes to electric pianos versus keyboards. You might find that only those instruments, and only the best among them, can replicate the feeling of a real piano, or you don't see how a minuscule difference in the weight and pivot point of a piece of wood can bring the price of a mediocre rompler to the thousands of dollars. Alternatively, you might not know what an electric piano is at all. In a few words, an electric piano is a keyboard instrument meant to replicate the sound and feel of a real piano, and it's mostly used as a substitute for an acoustic instrument.

Links Hall closing permanently amid financial trouble

Chicago Sun-Times: Since its founding in 1978 by choreographers Bob Eisen, Carol Bobrow and Charlie Vernon, Links has been a cornerstone of the city’s dance scene, often giving a home to experimental new works that pushed the envelope, both artistically and politically. Links’ Executive Director SK Kerastas said Thursday that the venue will continue with performances scheduled through June, then close up shop over the summer.

'Black Mirror' Released Two Different Versions Of Same Episode

brobible.com: The folks who create the Black Mirror episodes are pretty diabolical. This we knew. What we didn’t realize is the lengths they would go to just to mess with viewers’ heads.

Be Your Own Cloud With Strada’s New Remote Collaboration Tool

No Film School: Who doesn’t want to be a cloud these days, huh? It sounds great—floating through the skies, not a worry in the world. No media management, no waiting to upload, no cloud storage costs. Is that too much to ask for?

The 18 Greatest PVC Hacks We've Ever Published

Family Handyman: Keep your drills and those must-have drill attachments organized and close at hand to make your DIY projects run smoothly. By investing just two hours, you can build this wall-mounted drill dock to house everything you need. There’s a top shelf for accessories, a wider lower shelf for larger items such as battery packs, and the clever use of 3-inch PVC piping makes hanging holsters for different drill attachments.

Light Up the Night With DJI’s First Spotlight for Multi-Payload Drone Platforms

No Film School: While DJI might just be set to remain in a constant state of flux with possible sanctions (or perhaps tariffs) hanging over its sales and operations in the United States, the Chinese-based drone company remains as busy as ever, announcing several new drones, gimbals, and other innovative drone-related products.

Sam Pinkleton On the Art of Recasting Oh, Mary!

Playbill: Anyone familiar with the unique brand of idiocy that made Cole Escola a cult YouTube and TV star was anything but shocked that their first stage play Oh, Mary! was hilarious. That it's also become a major commercial hit on Broadway—so much so that the production has extended several times at the Lyceum Theatre and had no less than two replacement stars while Escola was taking a hiatus—has been anything but expected.

Designing An FM Drum Synth From Scratch

Hackaday: [Moritz Klein]’s journey down the analog drum machine rabbit hole started with a Roland TR-909, a hybrid drum machine from the mid-80s that combined sampled sounds with analog synthesis. The unit [Moritz] picked up was having trouble with the decay on the kick drum, so he spread out the gloriously detailed schematic and got to work.

11 Accessories You Need To Stay Safe While Woodworking

www.slashgear.com: The journey of the prototypical hobbyist woodworker is a fascinating one. Many people get into this adventure because they want to make a piece of furniture for their home. There's also a range of woodworkers who make the jump from carpentry. You may have built cabinets for your kitchen and then thought about other ways you could save money by crafting more pieces on your own.

Photo: First Look at HERCULES Stage Show Coming to the Disney Destiny

www.broadwayworld.com: Last summer, BroadwayWorld reported that Disney Cruise Line was working on a new Broadway-style musical adaptation of Disney's Hercules. Now, a first look at the concept art has been revealed, featuring the villainous multi-headed Hydra, which will be depicted by puppets in this version. Take a look at the image below!

Kristin Chenoweth & More Get 2025 Boston Theater Critics Association Awards Nominations

www.broadwayworld.com: The Boston Theater Critics Association (BTCA) announced today the nominations for the 42nd Annual Elliot Norton Awards, honoring outstanding actors, directors, designers, choreographers, musicians, and productions in Greater Boston. The awards ceremony will be held Monday, June 2, 2025, at 7 PM at The Huntington Theatre.

World’s biggest kinetic shutter LED wall to offer 30K visuals

www.avinteractive.com: The centrepiece will be the Mirage 4.0 LED video wall, which will feature the “world’s fully kinetic shutter system of this scale”. With the shutter open, the screens create a hyper-realistic 270° virtual environment comprising more than 3,000 tiles offering a combined 30K resolution and more than 100 million pixels.

Hope This Helps – My Insights Feature in AutoCAD

Tuesday Tips With Frank | AutoCAD Blog | Autodesk: HTH. It’s internet/text message slang for Hope This Helps. Experienced AutoCAD users are a wonderful bunch of people, as most of them love to offer assistance and mentorship to others. Now it’s AutoCAD’s turn to hopefully help you. Since the 2022.1 release, AutoCAD has included the ultra-useful My Insights feature.

BOOP! The Musical star Jasmine Amy Rogers video interview

GoldDerby: “It really feels like she's such a big part of me,” says Jasmine Amy Rogers of her character Betty Boop in the new Broadway tuner Boop! The Musical, “so it doesn't feel like I'm putting on this second skin. It feels like I'm bringing out a part of myself.” Rogers is making her Broadway debut in the bubbly new musical, adopting the infamous big eyes and short curled coiffure of the flapper cartoon.

greenloop 2025: top speakers & hot topics

Blooloop: greenloop, the original sustainability conference focused on the global visitor attractions industry, has another fantastic line-up of speakers in 2025. Now in its fifth year, this is a must-attend event for anyone interested in visitor attraction sustainability.

10 Things We Learned About the Star Trek: Red Alert Experience at Universal Fan Fest Nights

gizmodo.com: io9 recently went on a behind-the-scenes tour of Universal Studios Hollywood’s Fan Fest Nights to get an early glimpse at its immersive attractions. One of the headliners we’re most excited about is Star Trek: Red Alert, which will take Star Trek fans on a journey from Earth into space, and through a recreation of the Starfleet Museum and the Enterprise-D for an unforgettable galactic adventure.

Cirque Introduces New Interactive Digital Experience!

www.cirquefascination.com: Cirque du Soleil Entertainment Group, in collaboration with Imagien, the company behind the interactive digital platform Parallel!, is excited to announce the launch of KURIOS – cabinet of Curiosities – In Parallel!. This groundbreaking digital format offers viewers behind-the-scenes access, parallel storylines, and a curated selection of stunning content, making them feel as if they were truly part of the show!

Show Us How to Live

HowlRound Theatre Commons: Thank you for the introduction, legend Carmelita. Bold and fearless, in all the terror of a life in art making, Carmelita. I keep thinking about the last moment of your last show. The way you remembered those we have lost and their legacy. Thank you for your legacy. We just celebrated the legacy of Morgan Jenness and Philip Arnoult, who both tangibly and spiritually changed my life. We are breathing together here in Mark Russell’s legacy which will also be Meropi Peponides and Kaneza Schaal’s legacy.

Anker’s new UV Printer E1 can create fake wood and paint textures.

The Verge: Falling somewhere between a 3D printer and the inkjet you use to churn out color photos, Anker’s eufyMake brand has announced what it’s calling the “industry’s first 3D-texture UV Printer designed for personal use.” The UV Printer E1 is closer in size to a 3D printer than an inkjet, but is designed to produce 2D images on various surfaces – such as paper or glass – with a subtle raised texture that can simulate the feel and appearance of materials like wood or even crocodile skin.

TV Writing Jobs Fell Over 40% As Cable Cuts Continue

www.forbes.com: The number of TV writing jobs took a big hit during the 2023-24 season, according to new statistics released by the Writers Guild of America. A combination of issues, including the 2023 writers’ strike, led to the downturn. While strike-impacted jobs may come back, the union indicated others may not—which could point to a long-term slowdown.

Review Roundup: Broadway-Bound REGENCY GIRLS Opens at The Old Globe

www.broadwayworld.com: The Old Globe is currently presenting the pre-Broadway engagement of the world premiere of Regency Girls. This raucous and daring new musical comedy features a book by Emmy-winning writers Jennifer Crittenden and Gabrielle Allan, music by three-time Emmy-nominated composer Curtis Moore, and lyrics by two-time Tony and Grammy nominee Amanda Green. Josh Rhodes directs and choreographs this riotous adventure of love, rebellion, autonomy, and self-discovery.

Yamaha Helps Navigate The Sound For Tyler, The Creator

ProSoundWeb: Monitor engineer Landon Storey and front of house engineer Paul Wichmann utilize Yamaha consoles in their work in support of rapper and singer-songwriter Tyler, The Creator’s concerts that range from pop-up shows on barges to arena-sized performances.

Review Roundup: TAKE THE LEAD Opens at Paper Mill Playhouse

www.broadwayworld.com: Set in the pulsating heart of New York City, this electrifying tale is the true story of Pierre Dulaine, a former professional dancer who, against all odds, brought the art of ballroom dance into New York City public schools.

In The Studio: Timing The Reverb Delay To The Track

ProSoundWeb: Like with other aspects to mixing, the use of reverb is frequently either overlooked or misunderstood. Reverb is added to a track to create width and depth, but also to dress up an otherwise boring sound. The real secret is how much to use and how to adjust its various parameters.

How Much Weight Can Milwaukee's Tool Lanyards Hold?

www.slashgear.com: Whether you use them for professional work or simple DIY jobs around the house, you want to take good care of your tools. Repairs and replacements can be inconvenient and costly, so it's best to avoid damage altogether. To single out one prominent brand, there are several Milwaukee tools that require more maintenance than you might think, and the company has embraced methods of breakage prevention. One of these is the tool lanyard, which is excellent for those who tend to work at great heights.

Review Roundup: IRISHTOWN Opens at Irish Repertory Theatre

www.broadwayworld.com: Irish Repertory Theatre is presenting Irishtown, a new play by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, directed by Nicola Murphy Dubey. Irishtown features Emmy and Tony Award nominee Kate Burton, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Kevin Oliver Lynch, Brenda Meaney, and Angela Reed, with voiceover work by Roger Clark.

Decline of drama at school prompts UK training drive for backstage work

Stagecraft | The Guardian: The decline of drama as a school subject has had a serious knock-on effect on the live entertainment business. While it is harder now for a budding star to imagine a stage career, the more immediate impact is on theatres’ skills and craft departments.

Is actor Michael Sheen the right person to rescue Welsh theatre?

Arts funding | The Guardian: Can one star save Welsh theatre? On a spring morning in Cardiff’s Wales Millennium Centre (WMC), 180 people are thronging for the answers. We’re in the Awen bar next to the gorgeous 1,900-capacity Donald Gordon theatre, which last summer staged the hit play Nye, about NHS founder Aneurin Bevan. This experience inspired its lead actor, Michael Sheen, to set up the new Welsh National Theatre (WNT), as he tells us today, scruffy-bearded and check-shirted, bouncing around a much smaller, makeshift stage.

New Brymen Bluetooth BM788BT Digital Multimeter Coming Soon

Hackaday: If you’re into electronics you can never have too many digital multimeters (DMMs). They all have different features, and if you want to make multiple measurements simultaneously, it can pay to have a few. Over on his video blog [joe smith] reviews the new Brymen BM788BT, which is a new entry into the Bluetooth logging meter category.

Mythic Quest is canceled, but Apple gives fans cliffhanger closure

Fast Company: Last week, Apple announced it would cancel one of the first shows that it had ever green lit for its Apple TV Plus streaming service: Mythic Quest, a show that first launched on the tech giant’s then-fledgling streaming service in February 2020. The show, which followed the escapades of an MMORPG video game developer, was axed after the last episode of its fourth season, which aired on March 26.

Is This the Most Confused Pitch for Arts Funding Ever?

news.artnet.com: It’s a petty thing, given the scale of all that’s going on. But Mark Bauerlein’s op-ed last Friday in the New York Times offering helpful tips for the President on cultural policy—“Trump Wants to Make American Culture Great Again. This Is How He Should Do It”—is more than just a bad argument. Its curious incoherence is emblematic of a movement of cultural conservatives that’s lost the plot.

The Olympics are coming to one of America's top theme parks

www.themeparkinsider.com: With the 2028 Summer Olympics coming to Los Angeles, Universal Studios Hollywood will be one of the many local venues hosting events for the games. And the park will be using one of its most iconic locations for that.

Final Report Prolight + Sound 2025: connected. visionary. creative.

LightSoundJournal.com: The world of events is changing – it is becoming smarter, more immersive and greener than ever. Prolight + Sound 2025 impressively demonstrated how actively the event industry is shaping this change – with innovative products, interdisciplinary know-how and practical applications. 23,031 trade visitors from 108 countries used the 30th anniversary of the show to gain fresh inspiration for their work and make new contacts.

Is High Dynamic Range Ruining Movies?

No Film School: I've been watching a lot of old movies lately, and one thing that's struck me is just how beautiful they are to look at. Sure, before digital cameras, it was crazy expensive to shoot a movie, but the colors, the angles, and the darkness are really something. And because it was so expensive, shots had to be meticulously planned so that money was not wasted.

Backup Tech, The BACK LOUNGE and UK Live Event Freelancers Forum, launch free workshops for freelancers

TPi: Presented on Zoom and hosted by The BACK LOUNGE’s Suzi Green and Paul Jones from UK Live Event Freelancers Forum, along with invited guest speakers on specific topics, the three, one-hour workshops, each of which will be stand-alone, will work synergistically to inform those working for themselves as sole traders or small businesses.

Acoustics & Soundproofing Basics For Project Recording Studio Spaces

ProSoundWeb: The science of acoustics is something that tends to alternately baffle and intimidate most of us. Outside of a handful of highly trained individuals, the aspects of what makes a room sound a certain way is looked upon as a sort of black art.

How an unused nuclear power plant became home to a world-class acoustics lab

The Verge: It’s kind of impossible to grasp the enormity of a cooling tower until it’s suddenly right next to you. Never used for their intended purpose, the cooling towers of Washington Nuclear Projects 3 and 5 (WNP-3 and WNP-5) loom over treetops as I drive up to Satsop Business Park, about an hour and a half outside of Seattle. This abandoned nuclear power plant — a strange mix of massive concrete structures in various states of completion — has been repurposed as an advanced acoustics testing facility.

Federal Court Denies Preliminary Injunction Against NEA's Gender Ideology Funding Ban

www.broadwayworld.com: The U.S. District Court in Rhode Island has denied a motion for preliminary injunctive relief filed by arts organizations seeking National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) funding. The court ruled that the NEA’s February 6 decision to disqualify projects that “promote” what the government defines as “gender ideology” likely violated the First Amendment and exceeded its statutory authority.

Strategizing Against Fracture and Dissolution at the 2025 Under the Radar Symposium

HowlRound Theatre Commons: On the morning of 9 January 2025, the Santa Ana winds began to let up over Los Angeles, so firefighters could finally advance containment of the five wildfires that had already blazed across over 29,000 acres. At the same time, a motorcade in Washington, D.C. arrived at the Washington National Cathedral for the national funeral service of Jimmy Carter, one of the United States’s most environmentally consequential presidents.

DiGiCo Quantum 338 console central to 34-concert residency for Abel Pintos and Luciano Pereyra

LightSoundJournal.com: Two of Argentina’s most respected artists, Abel Pintos and Luciano Pereyra, joined forces for an epic series of concerts, with an extra four dates added due to huge demand. Staged in Luna Park Stadium, Buenos Aires, the concerts were performed ‘in the round’ and at their core were two DiGiCo consoles – a Quantum 338 at front of house and a DiGiCo SD10 at the monitor position.

The Right Track: The Journey Of Apprentice Live Audio Technician Catherine Bowdidge

ProSoundWeb: I recently had the pleasure of welcoming Catherine Bowdidge to join me on the road with British music royalty Take That for her first ever tour. Our equipment and crew were supplied by Skan, who are now part of Clair Global, along with Britannia Row.

How ‘Stranger Things’ Scaled Up for Broadway

The New York Times: The cold open: In television, it’s a scene that begins an episode before the title sequence, often without leading characters but almost always with foreshadowing hooks to confound or set a mood. Theater doesn’t really have much of a cold open tradition. The expectation is that you introduce the main characters and get moving.

Crew of Spiegelworld’s Atomic Saloon Show Unionize and Ratify First Contract with IATSE Local 720

IATSE: Forty-six production crewmembers at Spiegelworld’s Atomic Saloon Show have officially unionized with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) Local 720 and ratified their first contract, the union announced Friday.

Review: 'Art of Wise' Delivers Message of Hope Amid the Ravages of Slavery

onstagepittsburgh.com: The “art” of Art of Wise, at its most straightforward, represents the pretty paintings of flowers that bedeck the house of the Wise cotton plantation, in 1822 Alabama. Art, however, is never that simple. For Amahle Wise and her family, there is hope in every brushstroke, as a means of escapism and, perhaps, a means of escape.

How to Efficiently Manage Your Installation Team

www.signshop.com: There’s a lot more to sign installation than the actual installation itself. The team members you trust to place your client’s signage need to be great planners and, above all, great communicators as they represent your business. The better they communicate, the better the experience for everyone – including you, when you can send the team to a job without wondering if you should be there to supervise.

What the Reciprocal Tariffs Mean for Home Builders

Builder Magazine: On April 2, President Trump announced a sweeping round of tariffs against the country’s global trading partners through the use of reciprocal tariffs. The plan also includes a baseline 10% tariff on all imports entering the U.S., with additional tariffs levied on a country-by-country basis.

L.A. On-Location filming tumbles in Q1 of 2025

Reel 360 News: On-location filming in Greater Los Angeles took another major hit in the first quarter of 2025, falling -22.4% year-over-year to just 5,295 shoot days (SD), according to a new report from FilmLA, the partner film office for the City and County of Los Angeles.

Showlight 2025 announces more speakers

TPi: Award-winning lighting designer, cinematographer, writer and director, and fellow of Rose Bruford college, Roger Simonsz, will discuss how difficult it is to achieve the kind of slow lighting changes so easily performed in theatre within the film environment. Using examples from “Engrenages/Spiral” as well as the recent “Piper” his paper explores how to achieve control on location, in daylight, while cueing the sun, with the help of Schrödinger’s dimmer.

Robe Lights TPi Awards 2025 - Lighting&Sound America Online

News: Robe stepped up the energy in the room for the 24th edition of the TPi Awards, supplying nearly 250 of its latest moving LED lights for the high-profile industry event produced by TPi magazine, part of Mondiale Technology Media. The TPi Awards was staged at Evolution London and was hosted by comedian Emmanuel Sonubi. More than1,850 industry professionals attended.

Blade Runner 2049 Lawsuit: Warner Bros., Tesla Win Dismissal of Trademark Claims

www.hollywoodreporter.com: A federal judge has narrowed the scope of a lawsuit from a production company for Blade Runner 2049 accusing Tesla of feeding images from the movie into an artificial intelligence image generator to create unlicensed promotional materials and Warner Bros. Discovery of facilitating the partnership.

Adoptable Puppies to Perform Improvised HAMLET at American Stage in St. Petersburg

www.broadwayworld.com: An improvised retelling of Hamlet will feature a cast of adoptable puppies when Puppy Hamlet comes to American Stage Theatre in St. Petersburg on Saturday, April 12.