What The Last Showgirl Owes to Las Vegas' Folies Bergere

www.hollywoodreporter.com: Va-va-voom ostrich-plumed showgirls were once synonymous with Las Vegas entertainment. While Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl explores the end of an era for the glitzy, glamorous dancers, the first showgirls were introduced to the U.S. in The Ziegfield Follies, a series of revues on Broadway from 1907 to 1927, inspired by the famed dancers at the Folies Bergère in Paris.

'Wicked' Choreographer Christopher Scott

deadline.com: As a longtime fan of the Broadway show, coming on as the choreographer for Wicked was an incredible opportunity for Christopher Scott. Not only was he able to translate one of his favorite shows to cinema, but the chance to infuse something new and original into a storied musical is a rare gift for any choreographer.

Ridgid 18V SubCompact Band Saw Review R87040

Pro Tool Reviews: Compact band saws play an important role for many electrical and plumbing Pros thanks to their ability to make quick, and effective cuts without a ton of vibration. A few years back, we tested Ridgid’s original compact cordless band saw, and it received high praise from our team for its versatile speed and easy maneuverability.

We Tested 13 Cordless Drills: Here’s the Ultimate Winner for Pros!

Pro Tool Reviews: Our team spent hundreds of man-hours testing cordless drills to see which ones rise to the top for professional contractors and tradesmen. If you’re a serious DIYer, we tested some popular brands like Ryobi and Skil side-by-side with Milwaukee, Makita, DeWalt, and other Pro brands. We even threw in Hercules for fun.

Hold on to Your Butts review – Jurassic Park redone with DIY dinos

Stage | The Guardian: Hold on to your … what? Your enjoyment of this show may well depend on whether you recognise the title. Many will immediately recall a chain-smoking Samuel L Jackson uttering that warning of imminent jeopardy in Jurassic Park. Everybody else will be playing catch up as the 1993 dino saga is recreated with nerdy detail and velociraptor-like speed on a tiny stage using a budget more Scrooge than Spielberg.

Digital Signage Experience 2024 Recap

www.signshop.com: The Digital Signage Experience took place in Las Vegas at the West Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center on December 9 and 10. The show featured innovative companies from all aspects of the digital signage industry from content management, to connectivity, to parts, to LED screens and more. One interesting theme, aside from the ever-increasing experiential LED trend, was the emergence of table-based touchscreen technology.

PLOT LUCK: 2024 RECAP

Live Design Online: Everybody loves a good plot, so you're in luck! Here's a recap of Live Design's Plot Luck stories from 2024, from the Super Bowl Halftime Show and Broadway shows to concert tours by way of Las Vegas. Check out the plots, gear lists, and comments by the designers on the lighting.

James Gunn's Superman Costume Had One Clear Directive Behind Its Design

www.slashfilm.com: Todays marks the moment when one phase of the DC universe has come to an end, while another officially begins. All eyes have been trained intently on DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn and, specifically, the grand unveiling of his newest reboot of the Man of Steel with "Superman."

How I made the costumes for the West End hit The Devil Wears Prada — and why I don’t care about the criticism

The Standard: It’s tricky to design the costumes for a show that is modern dress and, on top of that, uses fashion as the backdrop of the story. There is a lot of pressure to “get it right” but what that means exactly is hard to define.

“A Sherlock Carol” at Kinetic Theatre Company

The Pittsburgh Tatler: Dear Reader, if you’ve been keeping track, then you might note that this is the fourth Christmas-related production I’ve written about in the last month or so. You’d think that so much holiday entertainment would have me fully in the Christmas spirit, but given that a) I don’t celebrate the holiday and b) even if I did, November gave us a coal in our collective stocking, I’m instead feeling rather bah-humbuggish.

‘A Complete Unknown’: How Its Designers Brought Back Greenwich Village – and Bob Dylan’s Skinny Jeans

www.yahoo.com/entertainment: François Audouy and Arianne Phillips, the production designer and costume designer of “A Complete Unknown,” both benefited from the pandemic- and strike-related delays that gave them more time to prep for James Mangold’s look at the first few years of Bob Dylan’s career in New York City.

Building Materials Prices Stay Flat in November Despite YOY Lumber Price Growth

Builder Magazine: Prices for inputs to new residential construction were unchanged in November despite a 13.7% year-over-year increase in softwood lumber prices, according to the latest Producer Price Index (PPI) from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Relighting The UNESCO Heritage Mosaics Of Duomo di Monreale

Live Design Online: The 850-year-old Duomo di Monreale in Monte Caputo, overlooking Palermo, Italy, is a national monument and UNESCO heritage site. Famous for its Norman architecture and extraordinary 6,340-square-meters of mosaics illustrating key scenes from the Bible, the Cathedrale unveiled new architectural lighting in early December.

Controversy Clouds the International Circus Festival of Las Vegas

StageLync: While Europe boasts a long history of prestigious competition-style circus festivals—some running for over four decades and showcasing exceptional talent year after year —North America has struggled to carve out its own equivalent.

Now You Can Learn AI Filmmaking at NYU—What This Means for Film Schools

No Film School: As AI continues to forge ahead at full speed, industries and institutions are doing their best to embrace and keep up with these new technologies. And despite a growing sense of concern and distrust by many film and video pros regarding how these different AI models train their algorithms, more big names continue to explore how they can be a part of the AI video revolution.

ALPD Awards Four New Fellowships

Live Design Online: At the Annual Lighting Lunch held on Monday 16 December, the Association for Lighting Production and Design (The ALPD) awarded 4 new Fellowships to Peter Hunter, Steve Huttly, Nick Peel and Alan Luxford. Introducing the new Fellows, Chair of the ALPD, Johanna Town, said “This year our ALPD fellowships go to four very dedicated lighting individuals, who have spent a lifetime’s career in our amazing industry.”

Community Theatres May Not Last: How You Can Support

StageLync: I was excited to go to the play and dressed up as I grew up believing that’s what you do for theatre. The neon sign and lit up boards highlighting their upcoming shows was nostalgic and I felt almost transported back to being a child getting to experience it all again for the first time. Due to long hours of working in the industry, and being on the road so often, it has been rare for me to help support local theatre as much as I would have liked the past few years.

The History of the Nutcracker Ballet

StageLync: The two act Christmas story has been on stage since its premier a week before Christmas in 1892 at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia. However, the show didn’t expand to western countries until the 1940s, nearly 50 years after its original debut. While everyone these days knows of the tale of young Clara and her Christmas Eve adventure, not many know of the origins of the classic bedtime story.

The Best Public Art of 2024, according to Curators

Artsy: This year has been marked by visionary projects that push boundaries, foster meaningful engagement with the public, amplify diverse voices, and unite communities. Through the transformative power of public art, these works have inspired connection, dialogue, and a more profound sense of belonging.

‘I cut my knees open’: Romola Garai on the agonies unleashed by hit play The Years

Theatre | The Guardian: When people ask me what The Years is like, I’m not sure how to answer. The play is an adaptation of Annie Ernaux’s slim book in which, with scalpel-like prose, she details her life from the end of the second world war to present-day France. From a provincial childhood to grammar school and university, she moves through the 1960s counterculture and changes to the social order, then on into motherhood and life in the suburbs, our all-encompassing capitalism, the freedom of divorce and a late-flowering sexual awakening.

Live Performance’s New Union Wave Goes Way Beyond Broadway

jacobin.com: From planetarium lecturers to performers at strip clubs and escape rooms, Actors’ Equity is organizing live entertainment workers far beyond traditional musicals. The union’s strategy could be crucial as unions brace for a potential anti-labor administration.

How Linda Muir’s Costumes Brought the Haunting Realism of 'Nosferatu' to Life with Robert Eggers

The Art of Costume: In Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, costume designer Linda Muir conjures a world of beauty and decay, where every garment whispers secrets of the macabre. From Count Orlok’s imposing sheepskin cloak to the weathered, storied fabrics of the villagers, the costumes serve as vessels of narrative, grounding this tale in unsettling realism.

William Frederking's Dancer Portrait Project

www.newcitystage.com: Chances are, if you read this magazine—or any other arts publication in Chicago—you’ve seen William Frederking’s work. Check the caption of an image in any dance section in the last thirty years and the odds are better than a coin flip you’ll see it credited to Frederking. The photographer has been capturing lightning in a bottle for over three decades, portraying, as he puts it, “dance artists at the moments when they are fully present with the energy of live performance.”

Notre-Dame’s Grand Organ Rings Out Again After Five Years

mymodernmet.com: On December 7, Notre-Dame reopened its doors after a catastrophic fire tore through it over five years ago. Over the past half-decade, more than 2,000 craftspeople, including architects, carpenters, and artisans, dedicated themselves to bringing the iconic structure back to its former glory.

The Right Stuff: The Keys To Success In The Role Of An A1

ProSoundWeb: As a regional production company owner, I regularly hire freelancers to fill certain roles, and sometimes it’s a challenge to find qualified technicians that actually know the job of an A1 tech in professional audio.

Pittsburgh’s People of Year 2024 — Performing Arts: Herman "Soy Sos" Pearl and Staycee Pearl | Pittsburgh’s People of the Year

Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: For over 20 years, Herman "Soy Sos" Pearl and Staycee Pearl, the dynamic married duo behind PearlArts, have collaborated to blend sound design and dance. Under their visionary leadership, their organization has championed Black arts in Pittsburgh, producing and touring numerous works described as probing themes of “personal expression, race, freedom, and gender to immerse audiences in unforgettable experiences."

Kinetic Theatre's "A Sherlock Carol"

Pittsburgh Quarterly: Earlier this month I happened to rewatch the 1976 film, “The Seven-Per-Cent Solution” which I had not seen for many years, and was amazed by the interiority actor Nicol Williamson discovered in the character of Sherlock Holmes. In this story, Holmes teams up with Sigmund Freud – talk about an intellectual buddy adventure – to solve a crime, but what makes the film remarkable is how deeply it explores the fragile psyche trembling just underneath the cool façade of the world’s most brilliant detective.

Héctor Medina On Starring In and Co-Producing 'Los Frikis'

www.billboard.com: When Cuban actor Héctor Medina read the script for Los Frikis, he immediately knew he wanted the leading role of Paco. Initially contacted as a sort of consultant for the film, Medina was familiar with the story about a group of punk rockers in early ’90s Cuba who, in search of freedom, deliberately injected themselves with HIV to live in a government-administered rural treatment retreat and create their own utopia.

All Nighters: Sometimes It's The Gig… And Sometimes It's "Other Things" That Keep Us Up At Night

ProSoundWeb: It seems like anyone who’s been in this business for a while has, at some point or another, pulled an all-nighter. I know I’ve done a bunch, but fortunately, not recently. Here are a few that I can still remember. Vancouver to Calgary, 1980. I spent nearly all of 1980 working for the same band. In November, we had reached the apex of our western tour in Vancouver and were due to drive back through the Canadian Rockies to Calgary.

Review: It's Elementary - 'A Sherlock Carol' Mashup Is a Perfect Match for Kinetic Theatre

onstagepittsburgh.com: To begin with, descending into the depths of the Stephen Foster Memorial, I was immediately transported into the combined worlds of Dickens and Doyle. With immersive staging, moody music and heartfelt performances, the meticulously crafted production of A Sherlock Carol brightened a dreary December Sunday.

History's most catastrophic costume party, hosted by a mad king who thought he was made of glass

Boing Boing: In 1393, a French king who believed he was made of glass hosted a masquerade ball that ended in flames. The Bal des Ardents (Ball of the Burning Men) became one of history's most notorious party disasters, made even more bizarre by the host's deteriorating mental state.

Florence Pugh Defends Keira Knightley Against Press Shaming

variety.com: Florence Pugh recently told The Sunday Times that it’s “exhausting” being a young woman in Hollywood. The 28-year-old Oscar nominee has been a working actor since she was a teenager and can relate to headlines recently made by Keira Knightley, who was publicly shamed by the press after the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise made her a worldwide star at just 17 years old.

Question and Answer with James Benfield for Blue Apple Theatre

Disability Arts Online: On Wednesday March 12th 2025, at a livestreamed event at The Lowry, Access All Areas and partners will share solutions from their Transforming Leadership programme for increasing employment for learning disabled and autistic creatives. They’ll talk about how to navigate benefits while freelancing, Access to Work for learning disabled creatives, co-leadership of creative spaces, and the impact of inclusive leadership.

Benjamin Moore selects Cinnamon Slate as its 2025 Color of the Year

Woodworking Network: Benjamin Moore, a provider in paint, color, and coatings, announced its Color of the Year 2025 as Cinnamon Slate 2113-40 – a mix of heathered plum and velvety brown. Adaptable, yet distinct, Cinnamon Slate brings a soothing familiarity and balance to any design, says the company.

Stage spoofs of Hallmark TV movies are Christmas gifts for theaters

www.thestar.com: A career woman from the big city gets stranded in a quaint town just before Christmas but somehow finds love on the holiday with a prince in disguise ... or a high school crush ... or a widowed father.