Blue Rhine Industries wins Sphere Abu Dhabi LED contract

AV Magazine: UAE-based pro AV and digital signage specialist Blue Rhine Industries (BRI) has been awarded the contract to install the LED screens that make up Sphere Abu Dhabi’s immense Exosphere. This AV integration project is the company’s largest scope to date in its 20-year history.

While Powerful Institutions Play It Safe, Off-Broadway Gets Political

The Hat: At a recent performance of Mrs. Stern Wanders the Prussian State Library, the audience at 59E59 Theaters sat quietly rapt while watching Jenny Lyn Bader’s 90-minute play re-creating a real-life moment in history that unfolded in Berlin in 1933. In a spartan detention cell, the historian and political philosopher Hannah Arendt is questioned by a Gestapo officer about her suspicion-raising activities at the Prussian State Library.

Texas Student Sues School District Under Title IX After Losing Role in LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS

BroadwayWorld: A Texas high school senior who was removed from the role of Seymour in her school’s production of Little Shop of Horrors is suing her school district in federal court. She alleges the district discriminated against her because she is female.

Live Nation Sued for £1 Million Over Allegedly Botched Concert Deal

www.ticketnews.com: An independent concert venue in Cornwall, England, is seeking more than £1 million in damages from Live Nation Music UK, alleging the promoter fell short of a five-year agreement to stage concerts at the property and mishandled the booking and marketing of shows it did produce.

Zombie Fans Gutted by the Thought of Losing Monroeville Mall

Pittsburgh Magazine: The ghost of George A. Romero haunts Monroeville Mall. At least, that’s what it feels like when Rick Reed strolls through the shopping center dressed in jeans, a black “Dawn of the Dead” T-shirt, light-blue button-down and striped scarf. The cigarette jutting from his bearded face completes the illusion that he is the late horror movie director.

The War on Rot: Architects Turn to Science to Future-Proof Wood

www.jlconline.com: As the popularity of wood-based materials in building construction increases, facade-based applications are becoming more desirable and prevalent. Wood’s susceptibility to decay is a familiar phenomenon, and many established preservation methods exist. However, most wood treatments for external use are problematic from human health and environmental perspectives.

Sense and Sensibility Costume Designer on the Film’s Fashion

www.elle.com: Demure bonnets, stately jackets, and swanning skirts: the costumes in the latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility—starring Daisy Edgar-Jones and George MacKay—may look antique, but the references are not. Costume designer Grace Snell blended the earthy realness of the late Georgian/Regency period setting (1795–1799) with a touch of dramatic high fashion from some of her personal favorite designers.

The Best Thing In Your Mix Is Ruining Your Mix: Thoughts On Managing The Low End

ProSoundWeb: Anthony and I had finally done it: we had a pair of Yamaha NS10s set up in a hotel room, ready to make our mark. Those speakers meant something — every serious studio had them, and every mixer we admired worked on them. Now we had what the pros had.

Royal Ballet School head: Dance has long way to go to combat body image issues

www.thestage.co.uk: The Royal Ballet School’s artistic director Iain Mackay has claimed the dance industry has “a long way to go” in terms of tackling body image issues. Mackay acknowledged the responsibility of training institutions to protect young dancers, declaring: “I don’t want students to come out of school and say they need to heal now.”

After the Reckoning, Williamstown Theatre Festival Is Still Searching for What Comes Next

BroadwayWorld: For several decades after its founding in 1954, Williamstown Theatre Festival was the preeminent summer theater. Stars flocked there. Established writers premiered their work there. Those who wanted future careers in theater apprenticed or interned there. The pandemic, and subsequent cultural reckoning, changed all of that. Few theaters came out of that time unchanged, but the transformation that took place at Williamstown is one of the most significant. Now, after years of struggle and a season hiatus, more questions remain than answers.

Skydance issues 5-day RTO mandate, announces employee buyout program

Fast Company: Skydance, the megastudio formed via the recent merger of Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), is ordering workers back to the office full time and offering voluntary buyouts to certain employees. Paramount-Skydance already had a five-day in-office workweek, but WBD still required only three days.

First Feature documents the enduring determination of filmmakers

Chicago Reader: Late one night in 2008, Michigan State University film student Thomas Reilly-King decided to devote all of his energy to writing, directing, and starring in a feature film. The film would have action, romance, and, of course, an original theme song. Resources and experience be damned; to Reilly-King, seeing this project through to completion was preordained. He titled the film Enduring Destiny.

Pittsburgh's Attack Theatre's has a new leader, Sarah Kramer

90.5 WESA: A former high-level administrator at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts is the new executive director of long-running Pittsburgh dance troupe Attack Theatre, the group announced Monday. Sarah Kramer’s decade at the Kennedy Center included a stint as senior director of artistic operations. That’s the No. 2 artistic post there. Each year, Kramer oversaw some 1,500 performances, festivals and nationally televised productions.

frame to folly transforms from carnival gateway to neighborhood teahouse

www.designboom.com: Frame to Folly is a modular timber pavilion designed to be disassembled, transported, and reconfigured for different sites and community uses in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Developed by Carnegie Mellon University’s student-led Architectural Crafts Collective and Pittsburgh-based PARTlab (Laboratory for Radical Participatory Design), the project forms part of a year-long partnership with local nonprofit Neighborhood Allies.

‘Nobody Wants This’ Season 3 Fashion: Shop Joanne, Morgan & Esther's Exact Wardrobes

The Set Set: Three seasons into "Nobody Wants This," audiences know what to expect from its leading ladies' wardrobes: covetable knitwear, excellent denim, and the sort of effortlessly cool Los Angeles dressing that makes viewers immediately head to articles like this one to find where everything was sourced. But while Joanne (Kristen Bell), Morgan (Justine Lupe), and Esther (Jackie Tohn) may have firmly established fashion identities, the show's third season finds all three women navigating unfamiliar territory.

Dance Theatre of Harlem returns to the Auditorium after a ten-year hiatus

Chicago Reader: On October 17, Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) returned to Chicago for the first time in a decade, with a mixed bill featuring artistic director Robert Garland’s Return, George Balanchine’s Donizetti Variations, and John Taras’s Firebird. Founded in 1969 by Arthur Mitchell and Karel Shook after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the company began as a school in the Harlem community in New York City, where Mitchell was the first Black principal dancer with New York City Ballet, to “prove . . . that Black children, given the same opportunity as white children, could be great dancers and . . . to show people what Black artists could do.”

Critical Crossover: Getting The Most Out Of The Transition Area Between Subs & Mains

ProSoundWeb: I think most live mix engineers agree that a solid, thumping low-end response in pop and rock music is the standard and a preferred sonic outcome. However, the techniques we use to get that nice round sub bass low end are not always agreed upon.

Full Cast Set for GIRLS JUST WANT TO HAVE FUN World Premiere in Pittsburgh

BroadwayWorld: The full cast has been set for 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. The show will play at the Pittsburgh Playhouse's PNC Theatre at Point Park University this November 11-22 only.

Martin Audio & TiMax Provide Immersive Sound For Vache Baroque Festival In The UK

ProSoundWeb: Vache Baroque’s 2026 Festival took place at The Vache, a historic estate in Buckinghamshire, UK, with performances built around a water theme supported by a main system headed Martin Audio loudspeakers working with TiMax spatial audio processing to support music, theater and immersive soundscapes.

The Best Screams in Music History

www.rollingstone.com: With Halloween just around the corner, what better way to celebrate than with a list of musical moments so intense they’re guaranteed to make your hair stand on end? From wails of heartbreak to yowls of terror to belts of elation, these are the 31 best screams in music history.

Shure Helps Resolve Wireless Issues For Gorillaz On Tour

ProSoundWeb: “The Mountain” world tour by English virtual alternative rock band Gorillaz that began in March 2026 has sound engineer Colin Woodward overseeing the production’s wireless systems that include Shure Axient Digital for guitar transmission and Axient Digital PSM for in-ear monitoring.

Skydance offers employee buyouts as company mandates five-day office workweek

NCS | NewscastStudio: Skydance is offering another round of voluntary employee buyouts as the entertainment company continues restructuring its operations following its merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. The buyout program comes as the company also expands its five-day, in-office work requirement, two separate initiatives that could affect staffing across its television, film, streaming and corporate divisions.

electronic fibers turn fabric into washable touchscreen

www.designboom.com: Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a touchscreen integrated directly into a garment using electronic fibers that combine light-emitting diodes (LEDs) and touch sensors. Led by Assistant Professor Tural Khudiyev, the team integrates 54 of these fibers into a sleeve to create a flexible display that shows images and video, responds to finger presses, and connects wirelessly to digital devices.

OMAR to Make Chicago Premiere at Lyric Opera

BroadwayWorld: Omar, the Pulitzer Prize–winning opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, receives its long-awaited Chicago premiere at Lyric Opera of Chicago this week — a landmark work Lyric has helped shape as a co-commissioner since its inception.

Gorsuch, Barrett Sit Out SCOTUS Decision With 2 Liberals Preventing Quorum

Newsweek: Four justices recused themselves from a copyright dispute on Monday, according to an order list released by the Supreme Court. Those recusals mean the case does not have a quorum for a decision.

Microdramas Overtake Mobile Streaming As Legal Challenges Loom

www.forbes.com: Hollywood’s next major format may be designed for a screen that fits in your hand. Microdramas, serialized, vertically shot stories typically broken into episodes of only a few minutes, have moved from an experimental corner of mobile entertainment into a multibillion-dollar business.

'The Pitt' casting call for Pittsburgh production draws tens of thousands of applicants

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The population of the city of Pittsburgh is roughly 300,000. More than 9% of that amount — at least 28,000 people — have signed up to be extras on the third season of “The Pitt,” HBO Max’s hit medical drama that will film in Pittsburgh next week.

Student Blog: Theatre Maker: What does that really mean?

BroadwayWorld: I am a theatre maker. Great. But what does that mean? As a theatre maker, I do it all. I act, I direct. I stage manage and design. I’m a dramaturg, and I produce. And I work on many shows at once. Seems simple, right? The answer is yes. But no.

Keeping Fluid Clean in the Reservoir

Power & Motion Tech: The atmosphere surrounding a hydraulic system sometimes is underestimated as a source of dirt and moisture that can infiltrate hydraulic systems—usually through the reservoir breather. The oil level continually rises and falls as cylinders extend and retract, and system cycles occur. As the oil level rises, air pushes out of the reservoir, and as it drops, ambient air is drawn in through the breather.

Main Character Energy: Raw Cereal Designs Bryson Tiller's Tour

Live Design Online: Bryson Tiller's 61-date Neo Trapsoul world tour is designed to accommodate venues from Red Rocks to Berlin's Velodrom, and a variety of guest artists emerging from a FOMO-inspiring door to backstage. Cort Lawrence, show designer and director at Raw Cereal, spoke to Live Design about its work on the tour.

WANTED to Feature Equal Justice Initiative as Co-Producer

BroadwayWorld: Equal Justice Initiative, the nonprofit organization founded by civil rights attorney and bestselling author Bryan Stevenson, will join the new musical Wanted as a co-producer. Dedicated to ending mass incarceration, challenging racial and economic injustice and confronting America's history of racial inequality, EJI joins the Broadway production inspired by the remarkable family history of Mary and Martha Clarke, two Black sisters in 1890s Texas who passed as white and, according to family legend, became outlaws to save their family.

TCG Announces Leadership Transition Amid Operational Challenges

AMERICAN THEATRE: In a letter to members today, Theatre Communications Group, the publisher of this magazine, announced that TCG, facing significant financial challenges, is undertaking a broader restructuring process. As part of that transition, the contracts of its three co-executive directors—Emilya Cachapero, LaTeshia Ellerson, and Alisha Tonsic—concluded effective Oct. 16. To guide TCG through the months ahead, the board has appointed Shaunda Miles McDill as interim executive director, effective Nov. 1.

How Will SAG-AFTRA's New Agreement Change the Game for Choreographers?

Dance Magazine: This July marked a watershed moment for the dance community: SAG-AFTRA began representing choreographers and assistant choreographers working in film, scripted television, and scripted streaming. The union’s coverage of choreographers is outlined in its four-year TV/Theatrical Agreement with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP), ratified on June 4. It includes negotiable rates, pension and health contributions, and the same protected working conditions as dancers, like rest periods and meal breaks.

Interview: Jordan McKnight of RINGLING BROS. AND BARNUM & BAILEY®

BroadwayWorld: When people think of the circus, they might think of the animal performers, BUT this is a new kind of show. The Greatest Show On Earth® is a two-hour live talent show featuring the world’s best acts. This action-packed modern circus is filled with heart-pounding stunts, incredible acrobats, and immersive family moments that keep Children Of All Ages© fully engaged. From high-flying trapeze to gravity-defying acrobatics, every act is designed to wow. Performers flip, twist, soar, and launch through the air in a nonstop display of strength, precision, and courage that pushes the limits of what feels possible.

Interview: Director Ann Hearn Tobolowsky of THE HEIRESS at Theatre 40

BroadwayWorld: The classic 1947 American romantic drama The Heiress was written by real-life spouses Ruth Goetz and Augustus Goetz, based on the novel Washington Square by Henry James. The pair adapted it for the screen in 1949, which was directed by William Wyler. Olivia de Havilland won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as Catherine Sloper, the plain-Jane daughter of a tyrannical rich man who dominates her life and subjects her to constant comparison to her vibrant mother, who died when Catherine was young.

Building a Reparative Framework for Cultural Equity: Redesigning Creative Business Through Solidarity Economy

HowlRound Theatre Commons: In his 1969 review of Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth, Ayi Kwei Armah—the first Black literary critic to analyze Fanon’s work on global Blackness—highlights a vision of culture as a vital environment for survival and growth rather than a mere product. A decade later, in the 1980s, Armah took a radical step toward cultural sovereignty by founding Per Ankh Publishing, an African publication collective in Popenguine, Senegal. Modeled after the ancient Egyptian "House of Life," the cooperative was established to bypass the extractive nature of Western publishing, which Armah viewed as a form of intellectual enslavement.

Scream! Bleed! Take Off Your Clothes! goes inside the legendary Organic Theater Company

Chicago Reader: As a budding theater enthusiast growing up in DuPage County in the 1970s and early 80s, I learned what was going on in Chicago mostly by reading reviews from Glenna Syse, the theater critic for the Sun-Times. (As proud public schoolteachers and union members, my parents didn’t let the Chicago Tribune in our house, relenting only after Mike Royko moved over to the paper when Rupert Murdoch bought the Sun-Times in 1984.)

Laika's 'Wildwood': Steve Emerson on Stop-Motion VFX

variety.com: Laika’s “Wildwood” took more than five years of stage animation and visual-effects work, with 2,776 shots requiring a carefully orchestrated mix of handmade puppets, miniature sets and digital imagery. But for production VFX supervisor Steve Emerson, the defining challenge of Travis Knight’s fantasy epic was ensuring that the technology served the stop-motion performances rather than overwhelming them.

How New Federal Student Loan Rules Could Affect Acting Programs

Backstage: Twenty-seven percent of American students borrow an average of about $40,000 in federal loans to pay for college. But for students considering certain acting programs, access to those loans could soon be at risk. Under a new Department of Education provision, tying federal loan eligibility to graduate earnings, Congress has a new warning: Buyer beware.

Carnegie Museum of Art plans a major redesign of the Heinz Architectural Center

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: If you were to enter the Heinz Architectural Center at Carnegie Museum of Art today, you’d be forgiven for not even knowing you were there. In its current use as part of the Carnegie International exhibit, running through Jan. 3, it appears as a T-shaped hallway, with two darkened, adjoining gallery spaces and a cordoned-off stairway leading to an area designated for “staff only.”

Plot Luck 2026: Raw Cereal Lights Bryson Tiller

Live Design Online: For Bryson Tiller's first tour in almost 10 years, his brief for production designers Raw Cereal were the words: cool, metallic, robotic, reflective, illuminated, back lit. In place of a complicated stage environment, Tiller asked for a monolith with video and lasers, strong and simple, where he would look almost like the last man on earth.

5 Bosch 12V MAX Tools Under $200 Worth Adding To Your Collection

www.slashgear.com: It can be difficult to determine which power tool brand to choose these days, if only because consumers are positively spoiled for options. If you're looking to keep to the major cordless power tool manufacturers, however, Bosch is one name you're certain to see in all corners of the market.

Quantum’s Magical, Menacing 'radio island' is Theater Finely Tuned

Entertainment Central Pittsburgh: The world premier of Liza Birkenmeier’s new play radio island opened last night in Rockwell Park, cleverly staged (as are most all of Quantum’s productions) in an empty warehouse. Directed by Katie Brook, soon to become Quantum Theatre’s new artistic director in January, radio island is thus the last production to be staged under the leadership of Karla Boos, Pittsburgh’s most adventurous dramaturg, producer, artistic director, actress, designer and audience development director.

Student Blog: Sophomore Year 'Ins' and 'Outs' - Moving Past the Comfort Zone in College

BroadwayWorld: I spent most of my freshman year of college adjusting to a completely new lifestyle: navigating dorm life with a roommate, figuring out meals according to the dining halls, and taking classes just to fulfill my gen-ed requirements.

Why Cycles Matter More Than Hours When Estimating Battery Life

Power & Motion Tech: The average human life expectancy in the USA is about 687,000 hours. That number is accurate, but it is also completely useless for estimating your individual lifetime. Car makers don’t warrant engines in years of ownership; they warrant them in miles, because a delivery van and a leisure car can be the same age and in a very different state.

Vekoma: 100 years in motion

InPark Magazine: As Vekoma celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2026, the company has considerably more to recognize than being in business for a century. Its history is one of continual reinvention – from agricultural machinery and industrial steelwork to one of the world’s leading roller coaster and attraction manufacturers.

Make It or Send It Out?

Sign Builder Illustrated, The How-To Sign Industry Magazine: For many sign and graphics shop owners, there’s a certain satisfaction that comes with producing a job entirely in-house. From the initial design to the final installation, having control over every step of the process can make it easier to maintain quality, meet deadlines and keep customers happy. However, just because your shop has the equipment and expertise to complete a project doesn’t necessarily mean producing it yourself is always the smartest business decision.

From Theaters to Living Rooms: Women+ Playwrights Take on Democracy Ahead of Election Day

BroadwayWorld: Tomorrow, theaters, community groups, and other organizations across the country will begin presenting short plays about democracy by women+ playwrights. The project, entitled Women+ on the Edge of Democracy and spearheaded by the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in partnership with the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, enlisted 34 women+ playwrights to write the plays.

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Student Blog: How to Balance Doing Everything Without Burning Out

BroadwayWorld: We are officially 9 weeks into the fall semester, and I am burnt out. So I thought it would be a good time to look back on how I got here. Coming back to school was great, and I was so ready to get started. I had a million things I wanted to accomplish this semester. I did really well accomplishing those same things over the summer, so why would this fall be any different?

Student Blog: Lifelong Lessons Learned from Theatre

BroadwayWorld: I’ve been acting in the theatre industry since I was four, and I've had the opportunity to perform in productions ranging from school to professional and regional work across Pennsylvania and New Jersey. From a very young age, I learned crucial skills that will stick with me forever and have little to do with talent, acting, singing, or dancing ability.

Broadway’s ‘School Girls’ will be available for streaming during final week of performances

www.broadwaynews.com: Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) and the League of Live Stream Theater (LOLST) will stream a live capture of Broadway’s “School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play” during its final week of performances. “School Girls” is currently playing at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, where its limited run began previews on Sept. 8 and opened on Sept. 28.

DEI Law Prompts School to Cancel 'Little Shop of Horrors'

www.mediaite.com: A suburban Dallas school district claimed a state law that references “social transitioning” prompted it to cancel a high school production of Little Shop of Horrors after a female student was cast in the role of Seymour, the nerdy flower shop assistant at the center of the tale.

More than half of theatre workers taking jobs outside of sector to survive – survey

www.thestage.co.uk: More than 50% of respondents to an Equity survey have had to take work outside of the sector to survive, with only a quarter thinking they will be working in the industry in three years’ time. The findings are part of a survey of more than 2,100 Equity members, with general secretary Paul W Fleming saying the results highlight “a precarious workforce”.