Makita Just Dropped These New Tools In November 2026

www.slashgear.com: As one of the major players in the power tools segment, it is not unusual for Makita to plan its product launch strategy around the shopping season in the U.S. This is why we see a flurry of new launches from the company starting around the end of October, lasting almost until the end of the year.

Built-in Bookshelves, Built on Site

Journal of Light Construction: I am not a cabinet maker. I’ve always considered myself an all-around carpenter, and I take on all kinds of different jobs. My shop is the client’s driveway or garage; for the job in this story, it was under the client’s deck. With those limitations, I regularly provide cost-conscious custom work to my clients. On this job, the client wanted shelving for their many books in an unused space in their basement.

Waleed Akhtar wins Hermitage Major Theater Award for 2026

www.whatsonstage.com: UK playwright and actor Waleed Akhtar has been named the seventh recipient of the Hermitage Major Theater Award, receiving a $35,000 (£26,500 approximately) commission to create a new play.

Marilyn Monroe is a magnetic misfit in Speculations, a spicy conspiracy drama full of bombshells

Theatre | The Guardian: A smartly dressed woman hammers away at an old-style typewriter in a drawing room. She is the real-life American journalist and conspiracy theorist Dorothy Kilgallen (Janie Dee) and bears the gimlet-eyed look of Angela Lansbury in Murder, She Wrote.

3D Signage Handbook: The Ultimate Guide For 3D Effect Displays

invidis: After years of hype and limited commercial success, glasses-free 3D is back on the digital signage industry’s agenda. New display technologies, AI-powered content creation, and a growing ecosystem of vendors are lowering barriers that once restricted 3D installations to niche applications.

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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‘Macbeth’ gets an immersive dance-theater adaptation at UMBC

DC Theater Arts: I’m not too familiar with Macbeth, or any of William Shakespeare’s work, for that matter, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying it. If you’re like me and have little to no prior knowledge of Macbeth, first performed in 1606, it’s a tragedy that dramatizes the physical violence and psychological effects of political ambition and power.

Microsoft Patents an AI That Can Literally Put Words in People's Mouths in Real Time

futurism.com: Microsoft just filed a patent for an AI product that would be able to transform live video in real time to alter speakers’ words and faces. The patent, as first flagged by patent-tracker Patentlyze, is described by its inventors as a “near real-time artificial intelligence (AI) enhancement of video or augmented reality (AR) presentations of live events.”

The Old Film-Set Ritual That Still Saves Shots on Digital Sets

No Film School: Making a movie is one of the most tedious things you can do as a pastime, if you're doing it right. You're setting up shots, finding the right angles, getting the lighting perfect, hyping up your actors... all before you roll. So when you do roll, you don't want some silly little mistake messing up your frames.

Jennifer Lawrence Had to Confront Crew During Nude Scene: "Not OK"

www.hollywoodreporter.com: Jennifer Lawrence said she stood up for herself when she realized that unauthorized crewmembers were on set during a nude scene. The Oscar-winning actress recalled an incident on an unspecified film where she pushed back on having random crewmembers around during an intimate scene.

Get a 1st Look at Wanted On Broadway

Playbill: Production photos are out for Wanted, Broadway's newest musical currently in previews at the James Earl Jones Theatre and headed for a November 8 opening. Take a look in the gallery below. Obie winner and Tony nominee Stevie Walker-Webb is directing with choreography by Chelsey Arce.

 

Research Explains Why Ticket Sellers Embrace Resale Controls

www.ticketnews.com: For decades, concert promoters, sports leagues and other ticket issuers fought against ticket resale, viewing fans and professional resellers as competitors who threatened their ability to control pricing and maximize revenue. Today, many of those same businesses operate official resale exchanges, partner with secondary marketplaces and collect fees when tickets change hands.

How Arenas are Driving the Global Growth of Latin Music

www.billboard.com: The importance of concert venues in the growth of live music — highlighting how the artist and audience experience, safety, production and infrastructure influence the success of a show — took center stage on Wednesday (Oct. 21) during Billboard Latin Music Week, with the historic milestone of Bad Bunny’s 2025 residency at the Coliseo de Puerto Rico as a landmark achievement in the Spanish-speaking music world.

Fitting a Countertop to an Irregular Wall

www.jlconline.com: Borrowed from its duties in the boat-building industry, a spiling block can be useful for making templates. The block is basically a rectangle with one corner clipped at 45 degrees. The clipped corner helps you index the block on the template material. The block itself can be any size, but it doesn't need to be very big. The one shown here, made from a scrap of 1/4-inch-thick plastic sheeting, is about 2 inches by 3 inches, a size that fits conveniently in a tool box or tool belt.

Microsoft Patents an AI That Can Literally Put Words in People's Mouths in Real Time

futurism.com: Microsoft just filed a patent for an AI product that would be able to transform live video in real time to alter speakers’ words and faces. The patent, as first flagged by patent-tracker Patentlyze, is described by its inventors as a “near real-time artificial intelligence (AI) enhancement of video or augmented reality (AR) presentations of live events.”

Brazil Orders StubHub, viagogo to Halt New Ticket Resales

www.ticketnews.com: Brazil’s national consumer protection agency has ordered StubHub, viagogo and three other ticket resale platforms to suspend new resale transactions for events held in the country, citing alleged failures to comply with consumer protection and pricing transparency requirements.

Claybody Theatre Wins Great Found Space Award for THE DIPPING HOUSE at Great British Theatres Awards

BroadwayWorld: Over the past 3 years Stoke-on-Trent's Claybody Theatre has transformed a former industrial building on a disused pottery site into a permanent, flexible 130-seat theatre, events and community space. This amazing journey has now been recognized in a national award for Great Found Space.

The Old Film-Set Ritual That Still Saves Shots on Digital Sets

No Film School: Making a movie is one of the most tedious things you can do as a pastime, if you're doing it right. You're setting up shots, finding the right angles, getting the lighting perfect, hyping up your actors... all before you roll. So when you do roll, you don't want some silly little mistake messing up your frames.

Twenty Years Later, Here are Four Experimental Companies that Reorganized my Brain

The Brooklyn Rail: In early 2026, I pitched “a story on theater companies from the early 2000s.” This long and overdue history is long and hard to summarize, but let me try. (Book coming later…) This desire started with seeing TIME PASSES (for Ellen Brody) by The Goat Exchange as part of the Exponential Festival this past January. I expressed delight that they were a company making shows in a way that is less frequent these days (collaborative, weaving together impulses and influences, not necessarily narrative), leading me to then think of other companies making shows “these days” who I also follow and revere

How Concerts Are Using AI For Marketing, Production, More

www.billboard.com: As Trent Reznor performed a dramatic piano rendition of Nine Inch Nails’ “Something I Can Never Have,” his voice ­resounded throughout the arena, crystal clear. Whether Reznor was singing an intimate B-stage number like this or NIN’s heavier dance and rock material, his vocals sounded crisper than ever before.

Career Readiness In the Age Of AI: Preparing Students For Jobs That Don't Exist Yet

Tech & Learning: From an early age, children are asked what they want to be when they grow up. They are told that the classes they take and the skills they develop will prepare them for that future career. By middle and high school, conversations shift toward college, technical programs, internships, and the specific skills employers are seeking.

Lights, Camera, Career! Matt Spangler Opens Doors for CMU Students

The Piper - Carnegie Mellon University: It’s 3 a.m. and Matt Spangler’s toddler was finally settling back to sleep after a late-night wakeup. As she drifted off, Spangler scrolled through LinkedIn, taking note of job postings and updates from Carnegie Mellon University alumni. By sunrise, students in CMU’s Master of Arts Management (MAM) and Master of Entertainment Industry Management (MEIM) programs had a fresh batch of leads to look into.

Costume Designers Shatter the Myth Behind Contemporary Costume: "It's Very Difficult"

variety.com: Contrary to popular belief, contemporary design in film is not just about shopping; it involves deep storytelling and thought behind how characters are dressed.

Jennifer Lawrence Had to Confront Crew During Nude Scene: "Not OK"

www.hollywoodreporter.com: Jennifer Lawrence said she stood up for herself when she realized that unauthorized crewmembers were on set during a nude scene. The Oscar-winning actress recalled an incident on an unspecified film where she pushed back on having random crewmembers around during an intimate scene.

Robert Pattinson’s ‘Primetime’ finds menace in suburban bad taste

Wallpaper*: The early aughts were a time of technological friction. The World Wide Web was becoming part of everyday life, and people – now ‘users’ – were entering the greatest masquerade ball of the modern age. Meanwhile, reality shows were turning living-room televisions into a social panopticon.

The Notebook: A New Musical to open at the Judi Dench Theatre in 2027

Musical Theatre Review: The UK premiere of the new stage musical version of Nicholas Sparks’ much-loved debut novel The Notebook will be the first production to open at the newly renamed Judi Dench Theatre (currently the Shaftesbury Theatre) next spring.

From 'Gangubai' and 'Saiyaara' to 'Sita Ramam': Sheetal Iqbal Sharma on the Art of Costume Design

www.hollywoodreporterindia.com: For Sheetal Iqbal Sharma, costume design begins not with a rack of clothes, or even a sketch, but with the person. “If characters came with a wardrobe manual, it would make my job much easier!” he says with a laugh. “But unfortunately — or fortunately — they don’t.”

Cohort Revealed For Inaugural Bi-Coastal BIPOC Critics Lab

Playbill: The inaugural group of bi-coastal critics has been revealed for the 2026-27 BIPOC Critics Lab, which is now partnering with New York City's Public Theater and San Diego's The Old Globe to welcome critics from both coasts for the first time ever.

Grief, adoption and karaoke

wesa.fm: A new work by choreographer and performer Maree ReMalia uses movement and music — including karaoke — and words as well to express two distinct experiences of grief: one for her adoptive father, the other for the birth mother she never met.

PADDINGTON Producers Lend a Helping Hand to St. Mary’s Hospital A&E Fundraiser

BroadwayWorld: London's most popular bear is lending a hand to an important cause this holiday season! Caring for Carers Trust has been raising funds to purchase and maintain a canal barge moored in the Paddington Basin alongside St .Mary’s Hospital, London. The space is intended to provide a space for staff working in the NHS Hospital’s Urgent and Emergency Care departments to support their physical and psychological well-being.

History Play. “All My Sons” By Arthur Miller At The Lyric Stage Company Of Boston

The Theatre Times: As I was reading this early play of Arthur Miller’s before attending the performance I was immediately struck by how dated the play was, not only in terms of dialogue and setting, but in terms of its moral posture. We are living in a time when here, in this country, one of the most important issues for people who will vote in the midterm elections is corruption. We hear about a new pay for play scandal almost every day.

Free Infinite DAW Combines Modular Synthesis, Visuals, and Creative Coding

Synthtopia: Developer Naman Soni has introduced Infinite, an audiovisual workstation designed to bring music production, visual composition, and creative coding together in one application. Rather than organizing every process around conventional tracks and separate plugin windows, Infinite uses a node-based canvas in which users connect synthesizers, effects, modulators, visual processors, and other components.

Drone show specialist Damoda plans to file for IPO in 2027

AV Magazine: Drone show specialist Damoda plans to file for an IPO in 2027, as it looks to scales its business. At a recent media briefing, as reported by digital media company KrAsia, the Shenzhen-based company said equipment sales account for about 70% of revenue, while its overseas business had grown to roughly 45 times its 2020 level by 2025.

What to do and what not to do when troubleshooting a motor control circuit

Control Design: On average, depending on the industry and the size of a plant or factory, a controls engineer could between 20 and 3,000 motor control circuits. That being said, a motor control circuit should be something that controls engineers are familiar with.

‘Macbeth’ gets an immersive dance-theater adaptation at UMBC

DC Theater Arts: I’m not too familiar with Macbeth, or any of William Shakespeare’s work, for that matter, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying it. If you’re like me and have little to no prior knowledge of Macbeth, first performed in 1606, it’s a tragedy that dramatizes the physical violence and psychological effects of political ambition and power.

Dancers Are Turning Public Spaces Into De Facto Dance Studios

Dance Magazine: On weekday evenings, New York City’s Moynihan Train Hall is bursting with motion—and not just of the locomotive variety. As commuters traverse the station, clusters of dancers form along the glass-lined walls of its subterranean West End Concourse. Some of them prop up their phones to record short TikTok-style dances. Others stretch and chat before practicing phrases of K-pop–inspired choreography, dodging train-bound travelers as necessary.

Projection Mapping: Factory International Makes The Case For Projection In Immersive Art

invidis: As LED displays become increasingly common in live entertainment and immersive environments, Factory International in Manchester is demonstrating why projection continues to play an important role in artistic productions.

How Alexander Skarsgard's 'Wicker' Man and Member Came to Life

www.hollywoodreporter.com: “The wicker man was already designed, the prosthetic face and the upper body,” costume designer Tóth András Dániel recalls. “And just one week before the shoot started, the directors [Eleanor Wilson and Alex Huston Fischer] came up with this idea: ‘He’s so sexy. We should see him naked.'”

Cabinet Plumbing Jig

www.jlconline.com: As a cabinet maker and installation company, we use many different tools in pursuit of our goal to provide speed, efficiency, and precision to every job we work on. We’ve found that True Position Tools is a company dedicated to producing tools that will elevate your workflow game.

A Cinema After Dark

Residential Systems: Great horror films are rarely about what you see. They live in the dark corners of the frame, in the floorboard that creaks somewhere behind you, and in the low rumble that tightens your chest a beat before the scare arrives. For one horror-loving homeowner, 3-D Squared set out to build a private cinema that delivers all of it, with sound leading the way.

Award-Winning Costume Designer Susan Yanofsky ’92 Dresses the Part

UMass Boston: Costume design had never figured in her career plans. Her work in economic development included serving as Westwood’s economic development officer, consulting independently, and directing economic development for Lexington. At home, she sewed her children’s Halloween costumes but carefully avoided volunteering for school productions.

Get a 1st Look at Wanted On Broadway

Playbill: Production photos are out for Wanted, Broadway's newest musical currently in previews at the James Earl Jones Theatre and headed for a November 8 opening. Take a look in the gallery below. Obie winner and Tony nominee Stevie Walker-Webb is directing with choreography by Chelsey Arce.

What Can We See in All the Recent Art About AIDS?

The New York Times: THIS PAST WINTER, a largely gay but otherwise unexpectedly diverse crowd gathered at New York University’s Skirball Center in Greenwich Village to watch Larry Kramer come back to life. The occasion was “Kramer/Fauci,” a word-for-word, joust-for-joust re-creation of a 1993 C-SPAN interview about AIDS during which the playwright and activist alternately fought with, praised and excoriated his friend and adversary Anthony Fauci, then the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, imploring him to do something about what Kramer repeatedly called, at top volume, the “plague.”

Student Blog: A Dream Within a Skyline

BroadwayWorld: These words rang in my head as I lost my breath while the orange and blue skyline came into view. The voices of the best dreamers in the nation sang “New York, New York,” as they realized that they had made it.

Interview: Vanessa Severo On Bringing FRIDA... A SELF PORTRAIT to Shakespeare Theatre Company

BroadwayWorld: Shakespeare Theatre Company presents FRIDA... A SELF PORTRAIT, written and performed by Vanessa Severo and directed by Joanie Schultz. On the eve of Frida Kahlo’s death, the pain and passion of an extraordinary life are laid bare as Severo cracks open a powerful portal between herself and the celebrated Mexican painter, bringing breathtaking physicality and raw honesty to what the Chicago Sun-Times called a “visually lush, emotionally rich” portrait of one of the world’s most iconic artists.

Lawyer for Indie Projects Not Excited About Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

www.hollywoodreporter.com: The 16th annual event, presented by City National Bank and sponsored by Venable LLP, coincided with the publication of THR’s annual Business Managers Power List, which honors excellence in the often under-recognized business of advising high-profile creatives and overseeing their financial ventures and fortunes.

From Monterey Bay to a Whale’s Belly: Production Designer Ramsey Avery’s Incredible “Whalefall” Design Challenge

The Credits: “I grew up building houses, so I have a very tactile sense of the world,” explained production designer Ramsey Avery, whose credits include the sci-fi thriller 10 Cloverfield Lane and the fantasy series Rings of Power. Avery brought that artistic sensibility, shaped by hands-on construction experience, to his work on Whalefall. Instead of designing a cozy home for main character Jay Gardiner (Austin Abrams), however, Avery’s main task was simulating the slimy innards of a whale.

Sense and Sensibility (2026)

Frock Flicks: We previewed it, and we actually went to the theater to watch the new Sense and Sensibility (2026). Our collective opinion is that this isn’t the worst Jane Austen adaption, but it’s clearly not the best either.

Flapjack Theatrics to present Tia Shearer Bassett’s ‘Space-Time Laundromat’

DC Theater Arts: Flapjack Theatrics, a company that brings joyful, up-close experiences of theater wherever people gather, is thrilled to present the world premiere of Space-Time Laundromat by playwright Tia Shearer Bassett, directed by Matt Bassett and starring Shearer Bassett and Carolyn Kashner. Space-Time Laundromat will run November 7–15, 2026, at Opus Yoga in Gaithersburg.

A Clamping System That Simplifies Face Frame Glue Ups

www.obsessedwoodworking.com: Face frame assembly can be one of the more frustrating parts of cabinet building, especially when working on a flat table where every joint needs to line up with an edge to get a clamp on it. Jeff and Jon walk through a mobile clamping system sent to them by a friend at Kreg Tools, showing how it solves that exact problem while they build a small face frame for a sink base cabinet.

Built-in Bench Seating

www.jlconline.com: Custom woodworking projects are the bread and butter of my construction business. Built-in desks, beds, and window seats are examples of projects that are popular with our clients. While the function and design of these custom projects may be similar, no two are ever exactly the same, because every homeowner has a different space, need, taste, and budget. Instead of reinventing the wheel each time, I have developed methods for each project that can be modified to meet each client’s needs.

Back to Basics: Wood Clapboard Siding

www.jlconline.com: Some of my fondest memories of being an apprentice carpenter are from the summers I spent building and remodeling in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. It was in that small city, filled with late 1800s and early 1900s Victorian houses, that I learned the fundamentals of installing clapboard siding.

TODAY Goes Inside Macy's Parade Studio Ahead Of 100th Parade

BroadwayWorld: TODAY correspondent Dylan Dreyer got a behind-the-scenes look at how the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade's giant balloons are constructed, touring the Macy's Parade Studio in Moonachie, New Jersey, for a segment on the network. The visit comes as the parade prepares to mark its 100th march down the avenues of New York City.

The Writer-Director Bonds Behind ‘School Girls’ and ‘ANON’

AMERICAN THEATRE: The writer-director relationship in the theatre is a complicated one. The received wisdom that film is a director’s medium, while theatre is a writer’s medium, is based on some truth—much of it related to economic and union power, some of it to the intrinsic nature of the mediums themselves.

New Waldorf Crema Is A Compact String & Pad Synthesizer With Two Engines

Synthtopia: Waldorf has introduced the Crema, a polyphonic string and pad synthesizer that builds on the sound architecture of its Streichfett, while expanding into additional forms of digital synthesis. The compact desktop instrument combines two engines: Texture, which brings together string-machine tones, wavetables, and FM sounds, and Lines, an eight-voice virtual-analog synthesizer.

Working The Airwaves: A Conversation With RF Technicians Lucy Mackinnon & Emma-Jane Lee

ProSoundWeb: Radio technology is a huge part of many live shows, and has been used to give performers freedom to move around on stage for more than 75 years, starting with the first radio microphone designed for use in a performance invented in 1947 by British Royal Air Force flight engineer Reg Moores. The design illegally used the radio frequency 76 MHz and was deployed for a 1949 Christmas season of “Aladdin on Ice” in Brighton, England.