The house that streaming built: Inside Netflix House Dallas

www.creativereview.co.uk: In the newly opened Netflix House Dallas, the passive engagement of streaming is replaced by active participation. There’s no algorithm at work here; no autoplay or second-screen scrolling. Instead, this live experience represents an expansion into relatively new territory for the brand: specifically, a free-to-enter, 100,000-square-foot experiment in immersive, IRL storytelling.

5 Cheaper Impact Drivers That Outperform Milwaukee

www.slashgear.com: There are two types of tool owners in the world: those who know how invaluable an impact driver can be, and those who think a cordless drill/driver is all they need. Of course, the specific driver you're using is also critical. Not only do many major and no-name brands offer an impact driver, but several have multiple models themselves, adding to the wide range of choices out there.

AI Fluency Is the New Career Moat (And How to Build It)

Asian Efficiency: A college senior asked me recently how to stand out when he graduates. His name is Jacob. He is about to start a construction internship — his first real job. He has been learning AI tools. He wanted to know whether it would actually make a difference. I told him the honest answer: yes, but not in the way most people think.

NAB Show 2026 Preview: Trends, AI, Exhibitors & What to See

www.productionhub.com: Every year around this time, I find myself asking the same question: What’s going to happen at NAB this year? So I reach out to friends and industry colleagues and ask a few tough questions: What’s your favorite part of NAB? What keeps you coming back year after year?

Seats Left Empty on Smithsonian Board as Strain With White House Persists

The New York Times: A month after the terms of two Smithsonian trustees ended, their replacements have yet to be named as the traditional process of filling its governing Board of Regents has slowed in the wake of President Trump’s efforts to gain control of the institution. John Fahey and the board’s chairwoman, Risa J. Lavizzo-Mourey, left the 17-member panel on March 2,

100 Years of Martha Graham in Dance Magazine

dancemagazine.com: In 1926, the pioneering modern choreographer Martha Graham founded her eponymous dance company. One year later, Dance Magazine (originally called The American Dancer) published its first issue. The two institutions’ histories are twined together. Over the following decades, the Martha Graham Dance Company became a profoundly influential force in a dance world that was rapidly evolving; Dance Magazine became that world’s foremost chronicler.

See Works from Inside SHOWSTOPPERS: THE ART OF STAGE AND SCREEN Exhibition at Helicline Fine Art

www.broadwayworld.com: Helicline Fine Art is now presenting Showstoppers: The Art of Stage and Screen, a dynamic new exhibition celebrating nearly a century of performance as seen through the eyes of some of the most influential artists and designers of the 20th century. On view through May 10, 2026, the exhibition brings together more than three dozen works that capture the spectacle, emotion, and cultural impact of live theatre, film, dance, opera, and popular entertainment.

'Company Retreat': How the Hidden Cameras Worked

www.indiewire.com: Production design is always an exercise in worldbuilding. Everything we see on screen was put there by the art team for a very specific reason to tell us something. Colors, textures, shapes, styles; grounded or heightened realism. They’re all an invisible (or not-so-invisible) part of visual storytelling. But rarely is that exercise as much about hidden cameras as it is for “Company Retreat,” the second season of “Jury Duty.”

Fifty metre monument mapping calibrated in 15 minutes

AV Magazine: To mark Bulgaria’s National Holiday on 3 March, MP-Studio delivered a large-scale projection mapping installation titled “Memory” at the Defenders of Stara Zagora Memorial Complex. The 50-metre monument—featuring sculptural elements including the Samara Flag and figures representing the defenders of Stara Zagora—was transformed into a dynamic audiovisual narrative, where content appeared to emerge directly from the structure itself.

Yionoulis named next dean of David Geffen School of Drama at Yale

Yale News: Yionoulis — a Yale alumna, Obie Award-winning director, and former David Geffen School of Drama faculty member — is now dean and director of The Juilliard School’s drama division. She assumes the Yale role July 1, succeeding James Bundy, who has been dean for nearly 25 years.

Review Roundup: Teatro La Plaza's HAMLET Off-Broadway

www.broadwayworld.com: Theatre For a New Audience is currently presenting Teatro La Plaza's Hamlet through April 4. In this adaptation, Peruvian director Chela De Ferrari intertwines the text of Shakespeare’s Hamlet with the lived experiences of a young ensemble of eight actors with Down syndrome.

In ‘Burnout Paradise,’ Running on Treadmills Is Only the Half of It

The New York Times: One night last month at Astor Place Theater, audience members hurriedly hustled onto and off the stage to help four sweat-drenched, exhausted performers jogging on treadmills complete various tasks: shave one actor’s neck, solve a Rubik’s Cube and whip up a pasta dinner from scratch for two audience members to feast on and rate.

Follow-Me announces sales partnership with Kariotis in Greece and Cyprus

LightSoundJournal.com: Follow-Me, leader in performer tracking solutions, has agreed a strategic sales partnership with Kariotis Audio & Lighting, a prominent provider of audiovisual integration solutions serving Greece and Cyprus. The arrangement encompasses the full Follow-Me product range, and marks a significant step in expanding access to advanced performer tracking technology across the Greek and Cypriot markets.

Grizzly launches two lines of premium circular saw blades

Woodworking Network: With 21 specialized blade options, the new Grizzly PRO and Extreme Series lineups bring professional-grade performance to projects of any scale. Each blade is engineered to deliver smoother cuts with significantly reduced material waste. From the jobsite to the industrial shop, these blades are designed to compete with the industry’s top brands on longevity, durability, and price.

VTuber Awards: How To Build A Virtual Stage The Audience Will Believe

Live Design Online: Virtual stages aren’t new, but people still mix up what they really are. When people say “virtual stage,” they often mean LED panels or a 3D background that simply decorates a physical set. That can work, but for me as a stage director, the key point is different: the line between the physical and the virtual stage should be invisible.

Black women take center stage at Harriet Tubman museum event

AFRO American Newspapers: The Harriet Tubman Spirit Awards honored local leaders March 21 at the Banneker-Douglass-Tubman Museum in Annapolis during a two-part program that also featured an artist discussion on history, memory and Black women’s stories.

Water for Elephants: A Feast for the Senses

onstagepittsburgh.com: Water for Elephants is a no-doubt true showstopper, and I find it hard to select a single aspect to praise because there are so many stunners throughout the performance. First premiered in the Alliance Theatre (Atlanta) in 2023, then as a Broadway musical in 2024, it has been on its national tour since 2025 and is now performing in Pittsburgh as part of the Cultural Trust’s PNC Broadway in Pittsburgh series.

As sweeping layoffs diminish WaPo theater coverage, critics reckon with what’s being lost

DC Theater Arts: In 2015, leaders of children’s theaters across DC rose to decry The Washington Post’s decision to stop reviewing theater for young audiences. At the time, it felt like an isolated crisis within the larger ecosystem of arts coverage.

The LRLR Raise Funds for Behind the Scenes at USITT Raffle

Behind the Scenes: The Long Reach Long Riders (LRLR) celebrated their upcoming ride with a raffle and live auction benefiting Behind the Scenes during the USITT Stage Expo in Long Beach, California. Sales of raffle tickets and auction items raised $5,000 for the charity. The LRLR 2026 ride, dubbed “Backroads to the Brickyard”, begins June 19th in Athens, Ohio. Riders cover all their own expenses, ensuring that every dollar raised goes directly to Behind the Scenes.

Wireless PA kit extends audio across Dream Ride Experience

AV Magazine: The RF PA Extension Kit system provided by TMP Pro proved quick to deploy and highly adaptable to the event’s dynamic requirements. “It was very straightforward,” said Connell. “If you’ve installed a wireless microphone receiver, you can install the PA Extension Kit.” The team used the RF PA Extension Kit to wirelessly feed powered satellite speakers from front-of-house and remote I/O locations. In the field, the set-up delivered long-range, stable signals, with audio quality indistinguishable from a wired connection.

Chekhov Plays for an Un-Chekhov Time

The New York Times: When we think of Anton Chekhov — doctor, humanist, short story writer, playwright — we don’t often think of a political fire starter. His closely observed, often delicately comic work does deal with revolutions, but the hidden and eternal ones, like the hope that turns, season by slow season, into regret. No regime or attitude has successfully claimed him. In Russia, his work was beloved under the czar; it was beloved by Stalin. And it’s beloved now.

David Yazbek: The Master of Adapting Films into Musicals. An Exclusive Interview

The Theatre Times: David Yazbek burst onto Broadway a quarter century ago with the musical “The Full Monty” and immediately gained recognition as a composer, writer, musician and lyricist. All of his subsequent musicals, such as “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” (2004), “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown” (2010), “The Band’s Visit” (2017), “Tootsie” (2019), and “Dead Outlaw” (2025), have earned Tony and Grammy Awards. The musical “Dead Outlaw,” which opened last year, was nominated for seven Tony Awards.

Props Workers at Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre Join IATSE Local 63

IATSE: The Manitoba Labour Board has officially certified the prop workers’ union at the Royal Manitoba Theatre Centre (RMTC), with workers voting unanimously to join IATSE Local 63. The three-member unit, comprised of the Head of Props, Assistant Head of Props/Props Buyer, and Props Builder, voted 3 to 0 in favor of union representation.

You Can’t Have It All: The Impossible Demands of the Modern Museum

Architect Magazine: Is a museum a place for a community to come together around art that both grounds and opens perceptions about the world around them? Is it a monument to our collective cultural achievements and aspirations? A storehouse for those treasures that amaze us?

Billy Porter: Dignity, Defiance, and the Art of Being Seen

evanjsegal.substack.com: Billy Porter stands in a powerful lineage of Pittsburgh storytellers who learned to use the stage as both sanctuary and bullhorn. Taylor Allderdice High School, with its unassuming hallways and scrappy theater tradition, helped shape a young Billy who was already testing the limits of what performance could hold—joy, pain, and a fierce insistence on being fully seen.

GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN To Have World Premiere At Pittsburgh Playhouse

www.broadwayworld.com: The world premiere production of Girls Just Want To Have Fun, a new musical inspired by the cult-classic film written by Amy Spies and featuring a score of 1980s chart-toppers, will play Pittsburgh Playhouse’s PNC Theatre from November 11-22, 2026.

Tony Robbins to unleash a powerful immersive experience

AV Magazine: Imagine the scene. You walk into the first of five zones of a new 90-minute Breakthrough immersive experience in Miami next year. You are greeted by a huge volumetric video installation of Tony Robbins, the personal development leader, who guides you and everyone else present through a “priming” session.

The Phantom of the Opera and the Legacy of Its Iconic Wardrobe

Vogue Australia: The year was 1986. Her Majesty’s Theatre in London’s West End was buzzing with anticipation as audiences gathered beneath its ornate nearly 100-year-old ceilings, unaware they were about to bear witness to the beginnings of a cultural phenomenon. For composer Andrew Lloyd Webber was about to debut his newest musical to the world—an adaptation of a modestly successful novel by French author Gaston Leroux about an outcast living beneath the bowels of the Palais Garnier in the 1880s.

Sorry-Grateful: 2 New Books Show the Many Sides of Sondheim

AMERICAN THEATRE: Don’t meet your heroes, goes a popular axiom. In the case of Stephen Sondheim, the composer/lyricist who redefined the possibilities if not the sound of American musical theatre, the wisdom of that advice might depend on when you caught him: in his early years, when he was learning at the feet of Oscar Hammerstein II while cannily maneuvering among peers and collaborators and chafing at the era’s, and his medium’s, restraints; in his ascendant 1970s period, when his struggle to assert his unique voice gave him a short-tempered, even manic aspect; or in his later éminence grise phase, when he mellowed into a kind of encouraging father figure for younger generations.

POC Arts Nonprofits Face Severe Staffing Challenges, Survey Finds

hyperallergic.com: How do you operate a museum or cultural center without any full-time staff? The nonprofit Museum Hue surveyed institutions founded and led by people of color (POC) across the Northeastern states and found that over a third of respondents lacked a single full-time employee.

Costume designers collaborate to clothe ‘The Birds’

News | oudaily.com: OU University Theatre will open “The Birds” Friday, where actors will debut their performance and costume designers will showcase their creations. The play is an Indigenous adaptation of a Greek comedy by Aristophanes by the same name. The play, written by Yvette Nolan, follows two characters who leave the modern world seeking freedom and find the utopian land of the birds.

In Uptown, TimeLine Theatre moves into its new home, nearly a decade in the making

WBEZ Chicago: Mica Cole stood on the stage, with tears in her eyes. The occasion was TimeLine Theatre’s first public showing of its brand-new building — the culmination of years of near-constant fundraising, nomadic productions, unexpected delays and stress-inducing construction woes.

Monica Barbaro: ‘Yesterday I went home thinking I’m a terrible actor and they’re finding out’

Theatre | The Guardian: “I feel like I’m imitating an American accent, but it really is mine,” Monica Barbaro jokes. The actor has spent the morning rehearsing in an English accent for her stage debut in the National Theatre’s revival of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. During interviews, she says, she switches back. “I feel it’s best to use my own voice.”

Guest Review: ‘10 Out of 12': Immersive Theater Done Right

onstagepittsburgh.com: Theater is an art form that continues to expand humanity’s understanding of reality through many different formats. We’ve seen the changes that theater has gone through and continues to do so, adapting to encapsulate the reality of modern times and tell stories that grab attention and bring us, the audience, into the world. Quantum Theatre’s production of 10 Out of 12 does exactly this.

ANNY 12: the new 12" battery-powered by LD Systems

LightSoundJournal.com: With the ANNY 12, LD Systems introduces a 12″ battery-powered, 2-way full-range mobile PA system, designed to combine the convenience of a Bluetooth speaker with the performance, sound quality, and connectivity typical of a professional PA system. The goal is to offer a versatile and easily transportable solution for all those situations where powerful sound is needed without the availability of a power outlet.

Review: Quantum Theatre's '10 Out of 12' Experience Is an Unconventional Love Letter to Theatermakers

onstagepittsburgh.com: Tech rehearsal in theater is the crew’s time to sync to a show’s rhythms and iron out the wrinkles that develop with hundreds of light and sound cues, entrances and exits, performers hitting their marks, wardrobe and set changes ,,, it’s where it all comes together. Or it doesn’t. No matter. The show must go on.

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Theater Tickets Are Cheaper in London Than New York. What Gives?

The New York Times: The hottest celebrity on the London stage is a four-foot-tall bear with a fondness for marmalade. Tickets to “Paddington: The Musical” are hard to come by — the show is consistently sold out — and costly, by British standards: The best seats, when bought directly from the show itself, are 250 pounds, which is about $330.

You Can Now Explore Over 100 Objects From the Met in 3D

mymodernmet.com: As part of its Open Access initiative, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has published more than 100 high-definition 3D scans of art historical objects. These models have been carefully curated from the museum’s collection, which encompasses some 1.5 million works across media such as sculpture, painting, textiles, jewelry, calligraphy, and more.

Traits that make a fab shop employee stand out

www.thefabricator.com: What makes a good shop employee? That’s a question that sounds simple on the surface, but if you’ve spent any amount of time in a fabrication shop, you know there’s a lot more to it than just showing up and punching a clock. Every shop may have its own flavor, with different equipment, products, and expectations, but for the most part, we’re all looking for the same core qualities in an employee. You can teach someone how to run a machine, but it’s a lot harder to teach them how to care.

In Conversation With Hanna Puley, The Costume Designer Behind 'Heated Rivalry'

elle.in/fashion: If you haven’t stumbled upon the HeatedRivalry frenzy over the past few months, you must be living under a rock, or, at the very least, offline. Ever since the series first aired earlier last year, it has spiralled into a full-blown obsession. And now, with the show officially streaming in India on Lionsgate Play, a whole new audience is catching up, and catching feelings.

Broadway Meets Wall Street As One Show Finances Another

www.forbes.com: Broadway has become more like Wall Street. Similar to how Ford Motor Company invested in Rivian Automotive, the upcoming musical Chimney Town has invested in the Broadway musical Cats: The Jellicle Ball. As a co-producer of the Broadway show, the future show is billed alongside other producers above the title and a few sentences about it are printed in the programs distributed at each performance.

 

Performers in Wichita need more than Century II. Is a new center still possible?

klcjournal.com: As the Wichita Symphony Orchestra rehearsed “Rhapsody in Red, White, and Blue” last month, some musicians on stage were wearing coats and gloves. Because doors elsewhere in Century II had been opened for an RV show, the building’s heating system couldn’t keep up. Had the temperature in the Concert Hall gone much lower, rehearsal would have had to be called off.

Anolis enjoys Light + Building Expo

LightSoundJournal.com: LED lighting manufacturer Anolis enjoyed a busy and positive Light + Building 2026 expo in Frankfurt, Germany, where it launched two new products – Calumma Arts in collaboration with French Light and Calumma UN (Ultra Narrow) – and engaged with a host of visitors from across Europe and around the world.

Six Flags Great America 50th Anniversary Celebration Announced for 2026

Coaster101: Six Flags Great America will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2026 with a special Six Flags Great America 50th Anniversary Celebration event featuring new entertainment as well as numerous limited-time offerings and throwback guest experiences.

Sonia Friedman: Ambition and risk-taking suffer when production costs increase

www.thestage.co.uk: Sonia Friedman has warned that rising production costs are denting ambition and resulting in ‘fewer risks’ being taken

‘Curated chaos’: Danny Boyle on the ‘pop culture spectacular’ he is bringing to London’s Southbank Centre

Theatre | The Guardian: Out of chaos come great cultural movements, according to the director and producer Danny Boyle, who will inflict a little curated chaos on London’s Southbank Centre with what has been described as an “epic, one-off pop culture spectacular”.

Sweetwater Expands Again

Church Production Magazine: The nation’s largest music store — located on the Sweetwater campus in Fort Wayne, Indiana — is getting even bigger. Sweetwater is unveiling a significant update to its retail store, which includes two new dedicated home audio listening rooms.

A Simpler Approach to Distributed Audio: The BZBGear BG-AMP150WD with DSP and Dante

Church Production Magazine: In church production, small pieces of infrastructure often do the most invisible—and most critical—work. Distributed audio systems rarely get the spotlight, yet they shape first impressions before a single worship note is played. From parking lots and outdoor walkways to lobbies, cafés, and restrooms, these systems are responsible for creating a welcoming environment that feels intentional, polished, and consistent.

Yiwen Yu Advances Narrative-Driven Costume Design Across Global Short-Form Productions

FinancialContent: Costume design is increasingly being recognized as a core storytelling mechanism within short-form screen productions, as cross-cultural methodologies introduce new levels of visual precision and narrative clarity. Work developed by costume designer and fashion art director Yiwen Yu reflects this shift, positioning wardrobe as an integrated narrative system shaped by character development, cultural context, and audience interpretation.

Traits that make a fab shop employee stand out

www.thefabricator.com: What makes a good shop employee? That’s a question that sounds simple on the surface, but if you’ve spent any amount of time in a fabrication shop, you know there’s a lot more to it than just showing up and punching a clock. Every shop may have its own flavor, with different equipment, products, and expectations, but for the most part, we’re all looking for the same core qualities in an employee. You can teach someone how to run a machine, but it’s a lot harder to teach them how to care.

Laserworld has officially unveiled the new Cube Series

LightSoundJournal.com: Laserworld has officially unveiled the new Cube Series, a completely new product line of compact and versatile show lasers designed for the modern pro-lighting and entertainment industry. Available in four power configurations—Cube 1, Cube 1.5, Cube 3, and Cube 7—this series sets a new standard for mobile DJs, indoor events, and small to medium-sized clubs.

YESCO Restores, Modernizes Iconic Gateway Signs in Encinitas, California

Sign Builder Illustrated, The How-To Sign Industry Magazine: YESCO, the 106-year-old company known for creating, repairing and maintaining internationally recognizable signs, announces it has completed restoration and modernization of the iconic Encinitas Gateway Sign spanning Coast Highway 101 in Encinitas, Calif. The project revitalized one of the city’s most recognizable landmarks, preserving its historic character while introducing energy-efficient LED technology designed to ensure the sign’s longevity for decades to come.

Pittsburgh Opera Announces 2026/2027 Season: General Director Christopher Hahn Previews the Program Before Retirement

onstagepittsburgh.com: On April 2, Pittsburgh Opera announced its 2026/2027 season. The upcoming season comprises five carefully curated productions in order: Rigoletto, Orpheus & Eurydice, Partenope, Working for the Macbeths (World Premiere), and Romeo & Juliet. As announced by Pittsburgh Opera in March 2025, Christopher Hahn, who has led the company as General Director since 2008 and served as Artistic Director since 2000, is set to retire in May 2026.

Ayrton Diablo shines in “Masquerade”

LightSoundJournal.com: Five-time Tony Award-nominated lighting designer Ben Stanton chose Ayrton Diablo S fixtures for the latest interpretation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s iconic “Phantom of the Opera”: an immersive production called “Masquerade” staged on West 57th Street in Manhattan. ACT Entertainment is the exclusive distributor of Ayrton lighting in North America.

Broadway Meets Wall Street As One Show Finances Another

www.forbes.com: Broadway has become more like Wall Street. Similar to how Ford Motor Company invested in Rivian Automotive, the upcoming musical Chimney Town has invested in the Broadway musical Cats: The Jellicle Ball. As a co-producer of the Broadway show, the future show is billed alongside other producers above the title and a few sentences about it are printed in the programs distributed at each performance.

Makita GSL02Z 8 1/2-Inch Cordless Miter Saw

Journal of Light Construction: Smaller, more compact battery-powered miter saws have become quite popular over the last few years, offering greater portability than their beefier siblings while delivering most of the benefits. I’m generally a fan of smaller, more portable tools but I wanted a miter saw with greater capabilities and precision than most of the smaller 7 ¼-inch saws had to offer.

Axial Flux Motors: Understanding Their Advantages and Application Uses

Power & Motion Tech: Electrification of various vehicle and mobile machinery applications has introduced a range of technologies to the market, including different types of electric motors which play an important role in powering many of the systems in an electric vehicle. Axial flux motors are one such electric motor technology increasingly being utilized in hybrid- and full-electric systems.

Out Here gives a fresh musical spin to the family drama

Chicago Reader: In Out Here, a new musical by Leslie Buxbaum and Erin McKeown, which has its world premiere at Court Theatre this month, the characters wrestle with what it means to be open and spontaneous without losing everything they thought they wanted. Dawn thinks she wants a divorce, and she reconnects with her college sweetheart, Robin, who she broke up with when she thought it would be too hard to build a family in a same-sex relationship. Brian starts a new relationship with Gina. And Cleo and Jett, Robin’s nonbinary child, try to figure out what it all means for them as their parents restart their romantic lives in midlife.

This Piece May Not Be Fed Into Any LLM or Other AI Software for Any Reason Whatsoever

HowlRound Theatre Commons: I recently heard that a large theatre organization screened plays for a competition by feeding them into a large language model (LLM). Then, I read two more accounts on a playwriting forum about other theatres that did this for marketing or public relations purposes. A couple of months ago, this happened to me firsthand. I learned that a theatre put a draft of my new play into an LLM to generate marketing materials. I expressed my concern to the theatre immediately, and I corresponded with a lawyer at the Dramatists Guild of America who gave me language that I could incorporate into my plays moving forward.

Using Wood Grain With Intention

Journal of Light Construction: Wood grain is often the main attraction of stain-grade and clear-finished woodwork, yet I’m surprised how often I see new trim that has been installed without any consideration for the grain patterns in the wood. A little time and attention paid to wood grain can vastly improve the look.

Hybrid Wood/Steel Framing

www.jlconline.com: Not every job requires it, but steel has become increasingly common on our projects as engineers continue to raise the bar on their tolerances for deflection and shear strength. For anyone not familiar with the details of steel construction, it can be intimidating at first to unroll a set of structural plans with a lot of steel called out

Judge Demands Public Roadmap for Live Nation Settlement as Scrutiny Mounts Over Deal

TicketNews: The federal settlement that abruptly pulled the Department of Justice out of its antitrust case against Live Nation and Ticketmaster is now facing heightened scrutiny, with Judge Arun Subramanian ordering the parties to publicly outline how they plan to move the agreement through Tunney Act review.