The Fascinating Backstory to LA CAGE AUX FOLLES’ Creation — and Why ‘Lawsuits Ensued’

www.broadwayworld.com: In the new book A Very Unusual Way: Maury Yeston and His Singular Path to Broadway and Beyond (released Wednesday, July 1), author Joshua Rosenblum recounts how Jean Poiret’s French play La Cage aux Folles — which was adapted into the 1978 film of the same name — was originally going to be developed for the stage by a different creative team.

Best Practices for Protest Sound

SoundGirls.org: Why Sound matters and should not be an afterthought. It helps people hear important information clearly, keeps crowds connected and engaged, supports accessibility, and allows speakers, performers, organizers, and communities to communicate effectively in difficult environments. Poor sound, on the other hand, can create confusion, fatigue, safety issues, and frustration.

Review Roundup: DELIRIUM World Premiere at Boston's Calderwood Pavilion

www.broadwayworld.com: Review Roundup: DELIRIUM World Premiere at Boston's Calderwood Pavilion NEW! Boston Theatre Newsletter Get all the top news & discounts for Boston & beyond. Arlekin has returned to Boston with DELIRIUM, a new adaptation of Eugène Ionesco's Frenzy for Two, adapted and directed by Igor Golyak. Running through July 2, 2026 at the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA for a strictly limited engagement, Delirium brings together two of the most celebrated international stars Andrey Burkovskiy and Chulpan Khamatova — in a darkly comic, deeply human piece about survival, love, and the fragile architecture of reality.

Getting Active: Amplifying Communities

SoundGirls.org: Community organizers have plenty to juggle when a public rally, street demonstration, or community concert. Volunteers don’t always have the technical experience to set up a PA or wireless mic system. Budgets are often tight or non-existent, and equipment must be cobbled together at the last minute in reaction to recent events. In these situations, audio technicians can offer invaluable advice and create meaningful impact.

Mayor Mamdani's 2027 Budget Includes $323M Funding for NYC Culture

www.broadwayworld.com: Earlier this week NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani, City Council Speaker Julie Menin, Council Finance Chair Linda Lee, Director of the Mayor’s Office of Management and Budget Sherif Soliman and members of the City Council reached agreement on a balanced $125.8 billion Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 budget.

Adirondack Studios boosts Middle East presence and personnel

InPark Magazine: Adirondack Studios (ADKS), provider of scenic design, fabrication and project management to some of the world’s most iconic destinations, announced the promotion of three senior members of its Dubai team, as well as the creation of registered entities in Abu Dhabi, UAE, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

$300 million National Geographic Museum of Exploration opens in D.C.

Sound & Video Contractor: Last Friday saw the grand opening of the National Geographic Museum of Exploration, or MOE, in Washington, D.C. The $300 million project spans 100,000 square feet, and invites visitors to be engaged in 138 years of human exploration. Built on the site of the previous National Geographic Museum, the new museum opened after four years of construction expand the site from 16,800 square feet to its current, larger scale.

Hang It Wherever You Need It: Discover the TAF TC Truss Systems

LightSoundJournal.com: When you need to precisely position suspension points, LED screens, and lighting accessories, TAF TC systems offer the ultimate freedom to place loads exactly where your structure demands. The integrated C-profile for suspension makes installation faster, neater, and highly versatile, seamlessly adapting to compact 290 mm, robust 400 mm, and heavy-duty 520 mm configurations.

Building 'The Stuff' That Dreams Are Made Of- How a Prop Shop Creates Broadway’s Most Magical Items

www.broadwayworld.com: A week before their Tony performance, the candelabra that Amber Gray holds during the Rocky Horror set sat on a counter in Brooklyn for repair. You’ve seen the shimmering pink vial in the hands of Megan Hilty and plastered across Playbills and pole banners in the theater district, or maybe you’ve seen the light-up “Handbook For The Recently Deceased” on the Beetlejuice tour in Sarasota, Florida. Wherever they are now, those props were born in a small, unassuming workshop on the intersection of Meeker Ave. and Apollo Street.

How Ukrainian Playwrights Are Defending Culture

HowlRound Theatre Commons: When Russia launched its full-scale invasion, it claimed that Ukraine had no language and no culture. This isn't just a military assault; it is an assault on Ukrainian identity and culture itself. Playwright and screenwriter Laura Cahill was teaching screenwriting to teenagers in Ukraine when the full-scale invasion began in 2022, at which point she founded Young Playwrights Ukraine.

How Flyspace Built a Decade of Growth on a Stageline Foundation

stageline.com: Since 2012, Flyspace has grown from a fledgling event management company into a regional powerhouse, now operating an impressive fleet of 17 Stageline mobile units.

2026 Show Control Geekout Wrapup—Special Meow Wolf Omega Mart Edition!

John Huntington: On June 16, 2026 Jim Janninck and I coordinated this year’s (mostly) annual show control Geekout. This was the 15th edition (past writeups here), and this one was special. Joseph White, Show Systems Leader at Meow Wolf, reached out last year, offering to host this year’s Geekout in our traditional multiple case study session format at their Omega Mart location at Area 15 in Las Vegas.

PennWest University cutting more than 40 majors and minors in academic redesign

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Pennsylvania Western University is moving forward with its plan to cut 43 academic majors and minors while adding dozens of new workforce-focused certificates and credentials.

Google's new Nano Banana 2 Lite image model is its fastest and cheapest yet

Ars Technica: There are plenty of AI image-generation models these days, but the ones capable of quality outputs tend to be slow and expensive. Google DeepMind says its new image model, known as Nano Banana 2 Lite, offers the best balance of quality and speed. It’s available today across the Google ecosystem, creating images in a fraction of the time it takes Google’s beefier models.

Broadway Cleaners Union Votes to Authorize a Strike; Negotiations for New Contract Underway

www.broadwayworld.com: On Tuesday, June 30, 2026, more than 250 cleaners voted to authorize a strike that would impact 30 theaters showing Tony award-winning productions like Schmigadoon, Cats: The Jellicle Ball, Wicked, and The Lion King. This marks the first time Broadway cleaners have authorized a strike in nearly two decades.

The Sound of the Giant: Modeling Stadium Acoustics at Estadio Azteca

Digital Engineering 24/7: Five matches of this year's FIFA World Cup® are set to be held in Mexico City's iconic Estadio Azteca, officially known as "Banorte Stadium" and temporarily renamed "Mexico City Stadium" by FIFA® for its 2026 tournament. Together with Rio de Janeiro's Maracanã Stadium, Estadio Azteca is one of only two stadiums to have hosted two FIFA World Cup finals.

PROLIGHTS HaluPix Duo Powers Sombr at Coachella 2026

Lighting&Sound America Online - News: The 2026 edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival once again set the standard for large-scale festival production. On the Outdoor Theatre stage, alt-rock artist Sombr delivered a visually striking show, with a wall of 114 PROLIGHTS HaluPix Duo defining the stage design.

Springboard To Design Announces Additional Tony Award-Winning Guest Artists For The 2026 Cohort

Live Design Online: Springboard to Design (SB2D), the tuition-free theatre design program for students from underrepresented communities, today announced additional Tony Award-winning guest artists joining its 2026 roster, alongside the opening of applications for three upcoming programs.

World Cup fans wowed by American stadium LED displays

AV Magazine: International fans have been stunned by the scale and digital technology of World Cup stadiums in the USA, with giant LED screens foremost among the objects of their awe.

Creative sector is Chicago’s third-largest industry, says new study

WBEZ Chicago: The creative sector is Chicago’s third-largest industry and accounts for nearly 213,000 jobs, according to a new economic impact study released Thursday by Arts Alliance Illinois, a statewide advocacy organization.

Syracuse Drops 84 Majors Including Classics, Ceramics and Italian

The New York Times: Syracuse University is closing or halting enrollment in about 20 percent of its academic programs, in a move that the school’s provost said was designed to create a university that would be “more focused, more distinctive and more aligned with student demand.”

Washington Theater Leader Is Out on Opening Night of TLC Musical

The New York Times: Arena Stage, a Washington-based nonprofit theater that is one of the nation’s leading regional institutions, has abruptly parted ways with its artistic director, who submitted a resignation email on Friday, hours before the opening night festivities for a new musical about the ’90s girl group TLC.

Interview: Houses on the Moon Celebrates 25 Years of Amplifying Urgent Stories

www.broadwayworld.com: When Houses on the Moon Theater Company was founded 25 years ago, the company set out with a simple mission, which was to tell deeply human stories that too often go unheard. A quarter century later, that mission has never wavered.

Review Roundup: SINATRA THE MUSICAL at the Aldwych Theatre

www.broadwayworld.com: Sinatra The Musical is now officially open at the Aldwych Theatre in London. The production stars Joel Harper-Jackson as Frank Sinatra, Ana Villafañe as the movie goddess Ava Gardner, Phoebe Panaretos as Frank’s first wife, Nancy Sinatra and the Olivier Award-winning Jenna Russell as Frank’s mother, Dolly Sinatra.

REVIEW: Ottawa Fringe delivers geese, gloves, potholes, and more

Intermission Magazine: The annual event’s 29th edition features 62 shows, selected by a lottery system, including pieces in both English and French. I had the chance to catch several of this year’s English-language shows in the Arts Court complex, containing seven of the festival’s 10 venues. This slate of offerings from both local and visiting artists provided a diversity of theatrical experiences, guided by my own pursuit of shows with a metatheatrical bent.

Best New Tools for Summer 2026

Pro Tool Reviews: There are tons of new tools released each quarter—so many that it can be hard to keep track of everything. If you’re after the latest tool announcements from your favorite brands, you’ve come to the right place! We’re staying on top of the BEST new tools, so you have one place to check to see the latest and greatest.

Planning propels your show experience

Woodworking Network: You’ve never been to the International Woodworking Fair (IWF) in Atlanta before. What should you expect? What do you need to know? Or even if you are a veteran attendee, how should you ensure you get the best show experience? Attending IWF can be a powerful experience that changes the trajectory of your business or it can be an expensive, overwhelming waste of time. The difference is planning.

NOW PLAYING: The Black Mirror Experience

www.noproscenium.com: Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror has been delivering dystopic bangers season after season since 2011, giving us glimpses into dark near futures that distressingly seem to keep coming true. The show has become the first real heir of Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone with an anthology format that allow Brooker and his writer’s imaginations to run wild while aiming for the tightest storytelling possible. Which has led to some real television classics.

How We Got Here, and What Comes Next: Unifying Pittsburgh Public Theater and Pittsburgh CLO

onstagepittsburgh.com: When their marriage becomes legal sometime this summer, only then will the new name and details of the Pittsburgh Public Theater and Pittsburgh CLO unification be fully revealed. Until that time, they are in the engagement period of a process that will culminate in the region’s two largest professional theater companies merging into one.

How installation art can make plastic waste more tangible

theconversation.com: Science tells us that plastic lives forever. From oceans to urban streets, plastic pollution has become a defining geological marker of our time – entangled with nature, yet often hard to see.

YouTube AI Training Argument Raises Indie Music Community Concerns

www.billboard.com: YouTube has long been one of the most accessible ways for independent artists to get their music out into the world: Anyone can create an account and post content on the site with just a few clicks. But what many artists likely didn’t realize when they clicked “agree” to the platform’s terms of service is that YouTube, and its parent company Google, would later claim the agreement justifies training artificial intelligence models on their music.

Behind the Museum Tower at the New Obama Presidential Center

mymodernmet.com: The Obama Presidential Center opened to the public on June 19, 2026, and with it comes a a campus that is redefining the presidential library. Located in Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side, the center is designed to be experienced, not just visited. It surrounds the neighborhood, with pathways and gathering spaces meant to draw people in naturally.

Filmscape Chicago brings industry together this weekend at CineCity Reel Chicago News

reelchicago.com: The Chicago production community has one of its biggest annual gatherings this weekend as Filmscape Chicago returns to CineCity Studios on Saturday, June 27 and Sunday, June 28, bringing together filmmakers, technicians, artists, students, vendors and industry leaders for two days of education, demonstrations and networking.

These Milwaukee Batteries Have Deep Discounts During Walmart's Deals & More Sale

www.slashgear.com: Cordless tools are pretty convenient, but battery prices can make building up a decent collection difficult, regardless of the manufacturer. Milwaukee is easily one of the best cordless power tool brands on the market today, and it's generally considered to be one of the more reasonably priced premium options, but even its lithium-ion batteries can be a bit on the pricey side if you buy them at full MSRP.

What Success of '28 Weeks Later' Meant for Indiewood

www.indiewire.com: While media consolidation isn’t anything new — just look at literally the last week of stories in the entertainment industry — but it does tend to come in waves. Before the merger madness around Warner Bros., Paramount, and Netflix, there was Hollywood’s “Conglomerate Era,” from 1989 to 2004.