Fusion for Personal Use: The Best Free CAD Tool You Should Consider Upgrading

Fusion Blog: Maybe you’re designing parts for a 3D printer, building custom furniture in your garage, restoring a classic car, creating RC components, or simply learning CAD for the first time. Whatever brought you here, Autodesk Fusion for personal use gives hobbyists and makers access to professional-grade design tools at no cost.

4 Bosch Power Tools With Deep Discounts In September 2026

www.slashgear.com: September looks to be a great month for Bosch fans. More specifically, fans of what Bosch makes beyond home appliances. The company's power tool line has a variety of nice discounts floating around out there, with many of the steepest price cuts only on sale through the end of the month.

Behr Names Grounded Its 2027 Color of the Year

design-milk.com: Green certainly isn’t revolutionary in interiors, but Behr’s 2027 Color of the Year makes the case that there is still plenty of territory to explore. Grounded (T27-01) sits somewhere between moss and olive, tempered by brown undertones that give the shade a noticeably earthier character.

Can We Talk About Success? The Pregones/PRTT Story

AMERICAN THEATRE: Before founding Pregones in 1979, Rosalba Rolón considered a job in marketing for Miriam Colón at the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater (PRTT). Rolón, then in her 20s, recalled that she was nervous in Colón’s presence. She looked up to the iconic actress and director, who had paved the way for Latine theatremakers by founding PRTT in 1953 as one of the first Puerto Rican theatres in the U.S., and the only one in Manhattan’s theatre district. When Colón offered Rolón the marketing gig, Rolón accepted, but with a disclaimer.

BMG and Concord complete merger and announce leadership structure

www.broadwaynews.com: International music company BMG Rights Management has completed its combination with Concord, announcing its new executive management and strategic leadership teams. BMG and Concord previously announced the agreement to combine their businesses on April 28, a transaction that has been finalized following the receipt of all required regulatory approvals.

Rendez-vous 2026 Brings Canada's Live Performance Community Together in Ottawa

Lighting&Sound America Online - News: 2026 Rendez-vous, held August 12 to 14 in Ottawa, Ontario, brought together emerging and established professionals from across Canada's live performance and events industry. The annual conference and trade show, which moves to a different Canadian city each year, welcomed both CITT/ICTS members and non-members in a welcoming, hands-on environment designed to inspire ideas, strengthen connections, and support career growth.

The Creators of Come From Away Recall Living in NYC During 9/11, and How That Influenced Their Musical

Playbill: Irene Sankoff and David Hein have always considered their musical Come From Away as a show, not about 9/11, but about what happened on 9/12 and after. Notes Hein, "In times of tragedy, we often focus on the horrible things that happen. And in the days after, it's the wave of support and the wave of people who are doing good that doesn't get highlighted enough."

CallSheet adds Wrap Sheet to simplify production close-outs

Reel 360 News: CallSheet: Crew Calls has added a new feature to tackle one of production’s less glamorous but essential rituals: wrapping the job. The new Wrap Sheet workflow allows producers to send selected crew members a single closing email containing a thank-you, job code and invoicing instructions once production is complete.

Battery Park City Announces Free Fall 2026 Events

www.timeout.com/newyork: Lower Manhattan is about to get considerably brighter. Battery Park City has unveiled its fall 2026 programming, with four months of free performances, festivals, environmental events and community celebrations planned along the waterfront.

Laika Officially Doubles Down on Stop-Motion in the AI Era

collider.com: This past weekend, on Sunday during the Telluride Film Festival, Laika President and CEO Travis Knight sat down for a discussion with cinematographer and six-time Oscar nominee Caleb Deschanel and film expert Dave Karger to talk about Wildwood, the next stop-motion animated film from Laika.

Harman system reinforces sound at world's oldest mosque

AV Magazine: The mosque that is widely regarded by historians as the first one ever built has implemented a Harman Professional audio system designed to deliver consistent, highly intelligible sound across its expanded prayer spaces. As one of only four mosques mentioned in the Quran, Quba Mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Medina stands among Islam’s most historic places of worship – making clarity, consistency and restraint in sound reinforcement especially critical.

Inside Camelback Productions' Plans for an AI-Powered Production Space

variety.com: Anita Verma-Lallian, founder of Camelback Productions, doesn’t see the future of film production in Los Angeles. Instead, in her vision, it is on a complex one hour’s drive west of Phoenix, complete with backlots, a Universal Studios-inspired theme park — and a data center.

PortAventura World gets ready for its most complete Halloween yet: a new passage andproposals for the whole family

Amusement Today: PortAventura World is preparing for a new Halloween season with a renewed proposal that raises the intensity of the experience and expands its entertainment offering. From September 19 to November 15, PortAventura Park will transform its areas with new elements of terror and proposals for the whole family, among which the premiere of El Carnicero de Penitence, a new passage in Far West.

ChatGPT Sketch turns your bad drawings into detailed AI images

The Verge: OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday and is adding a new way to tell ChatGPT what you want it to make an image of: by drawing a doodle. With a new feature called Sketch, you can just draw something right inside ChatGPT and then tell ChatGPT how you want it to make an image based on that sketch.

LDI & Live Design Are Thrilled To Announce The Return Of The Excellence In Live Design Awards

Live Design Online: LDI and Live Design are thrilled to announce the return of the Excellence in Live Design Awards, celebrating the outstanding projects, people, and creative and technical achievements shaping the live entertainment and events industry.

How to Make Sense of 4,000 Edinburgh Shows: Just Soak It All Up

The New York Times: “Fringe” implies decoration happening out on a margin, threads on the hem of a larger garment. But if you have ever elbowed your way down a crammed Edinburgh sidewalk in August, past hundreds of posters for stand-up shows and circus spectaculars, accepting promotional fliers from, say, a woman wearing a disco ball on her head — you might wonder what garment could possibly be larger than this.

Wendell Pierce Joins Classical Theatre of Harlem's Board of Directors

BroadwayWorld: The Classical Theatre of Harlem (CTH), one of the nation's leading theater companies and the producer of the acclaimed annual Uptown Shakespeare in the Park, announced the appointment of award-winning actor, producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Wendell Pierce to its Board of Directors.

Daniel Millhouse Named Managing Artistic Director of Buffalo Theatre Ensemble

BroadwayWorld: Buffalo Theatre Ensemble (BTE), the professional theater company in residence at the McAninch Arts Center (MAC), is pleased to announce that, in keeping with the company's general policy of promoting from within, BTE Interim Artistic Managing Director Daniel Millhouse has been named the company's new Managing Artistic Director.

London The Hunger Games Play Will Get New Cast for 2nd Year

Playbill: May the odds be ever in the favor of the new slate of actors readying to join The Hunger Games stage play in London's West End! The world premiere stage adaptation of the first novel in Suzanne Collins' epic, dystopian book series will get a new cast for the second year of its run at the purpose-built, in-the-round Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre.

Special Events Set for SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY

BroadwayWorld: MTC will host a series of special events and conversations, inviting audiences to explore the play’s themes of identity, beauty, colorism, friendship, education, empowerment, and belonging through a range of varied perspectives from artists, scholars, activists, and community leaders.

Line Voltage Into an Ethernet Switch—What Happens?

John Huntington: I’ve always wondered, what if a forklift operator ran over a power cable and an Ethernet line and crushed them together, shorting the high voltage into the low-voltage Ethernet switch? I’ve seen interfaces blown out on switches before, but I was never around when it happened. But I had a couple extra switches and some other parts laying around, so I decided to do a test; the results really surprised me.

Hsin Hsuan Yeh Presents 'The River Within You' in Venice

variety.com: Taiwanese animation director Hsin Hsuan Yeh (“Sense of Nowhere”) is in pre-production on “The River Within You,” an immersive VR experience exploring the connection between holding on to the memory of someone lost and finding the strength to let them go. Yeh will present the project at the 13th Venice Production Bridge’s Gap-Financing Market, running Sept. 4-6.

What a Character Wears Is Never an Accident: Roger Teng on the Psychology of Costume Design

BroadwayWorld: When audiences watch a performance, they often notice a costume without thinking about why it feels right. A jacket, a dress, or even the way a garment fits can quietly shape the first impression of a character before a single line of dialogue is spoken. While actors bring characters to life through performance, costume designers help audiences understand who those characters are long before the story unfolds.

Dollywood to Honor Dolly Parton With New Experiences & Installations

www.billboard.com: The team at Dollywood is working “9 to 5” to celebrate Dolly Parton and her life after the country icon’s death on Aug. 25. Eugene Naughton, the president of Dollywood Parks & Resorts, revealed the plans for the theme park located in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., during a press conference Wednesday (Sept. 2).

Between Land and Tide: giant starfish washes up in Portsmouth in this apocalyptic performance art

theconversation.com: Five women slowly process across Portsmouth’s municipal park, covered in hessian-coloured layered fabrics. On their heads they wear what look like strange overgrown dreadlocks, making them a group of connected beings. They move towards a deflated hessian starfish shape on the floor. Circling it, they enact a ritual performance, animating the space and quietly paying homage to the five-armed symmetry of echinoderms.

Petition Urges State AGs to Reject Paramount-WBD Concessions

www.thewrap.com: The Block the Merger Coalition has launched a new petition urging the 12 state attorneys general to reject “empty concessions” from Paramount and “hold strong” in their legal fight against its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

Interview: Liz B. Williams of COME FROM AWAY at Ovation Theatre

BroadwayWorld: The Canadian musical Come From Away, which took Broadway by storm in 2017, has finally opened up to licensing possibilities for community theatres, just in time for the 25th anniversary of the events it portrays, the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. For this article, I sat down with Liz B. Williams, an actor in the Ovation Theatre’s production of Come From Away in Bakersfield, CA.

CAA's Young Hollywood Party Brings Assistants Together for Good

www.hollywoodreporter.com: The event serves as a benefit for Communities in School of Los Angeles, the nation’s leading dropout prevention organization, and is put on entirely by assistants on the CAA Task Force. This year’s party was thrown under the theme of Old Hollywood, and transformed Avalon Hollywood with decor, activations, music, and food and drink all courtesy of in-kind donations.

Interview: Sophia Walker & André Morin of OHIO STATE MURDERS and A NEW WORK IN PROGRESS at Shaw Festival

BroadwayWorld: Celebrated Canadian actors Sophia Walker and André Morin are, as they say, "booked and busy." Walker and Morin star in not only one Shaw Festival production this season, but two: Adrienne Kennedy's Ohio State Murders and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins' A New Work in Progress.

Plot Luck: Jamie Davis Lights Michael Bublé's Summer Tour

Live Design Online: Michael Bublé's 2026 summer tour featured major outdoor festival and arena concerts across the UK, Ireland - including Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire – and international venues like VidantaWorld in Mexico.

From the Deep Archives: “The Regrouping of American Theater”

donshewey.substack.com: Oskar Eustis has been artistic director of the Public Theater for 21 years and recently announced that he will be stepping down from his position as of July 31, 2028. In an interview with the New York Times, asked about the state of American theater, he said, “I think the American nonprofit theater movement is over,” citing the financial challenges that plague a business model conceived decades ago that hasn’t kept up with the current economy.

The Best Places to Laugh This Fall at Comedy Shows in Pittsburgh

Table Magazine: The weather might be changing, but the fun doesn’t have to end with summer. Fall brings a variety of comedy show shenanigans to Pittsburgh, including a Stephen King roast just in time for Halloween, on-stage game shows and more. After all, the best way to end a day with fewer hours of sun is to embrace the darkness … of an intimate room full of laughter.

JAŸ-Z 30 to Debut Immersive Pop-Up Experience in Trafalgar Square

BroadwayWorld: Beginning 1 September, JAŸ-Z 30 will debut its immersive installation in London's Trafalgar Square, celebrating JAY-Z's Tottenham Hotspur Stadium concerts on 4 and 5 September and the 25th anniversary of The Blueprint and continuing the celebration of three decades of JAY-Z's music.

Check the Wall Before You Climb Faster

www.asianefficiency.com: Every Tuesday at 4 PM, I review upcoming tasks. 1.5 hours. If something doesn’t align with my top goals, I eliminate it. I keep this ritual because low-impact work still costs payroll. My time. My energy. Skip a week of it and it’s easy to spend the rest of the week on work that never should have made the list.

AQTIS 514 IATSE signs first term agreement with Netflix

finance.yahoo.com: The association representing audiovisual technicians (all those who work behind the camera) is proud to announce the signing of an agreement with Netflix. This agreement, reached following a majority vote by union members, is the result of discussions and negotiations that took place over several months.

Joel Crawford Gets Variety Creative Impact Award at SCAD Fest

variety.com: Variety will honor Joel Crawford, the DreamWorks Animation filmmaker behind the Oscar-nominated “Puss in Boots: The Last Wish” and the upcoming “Forgotten Island,” with the Creative Impact in Animation Award at this year’s SCAD AnimationFest.

Timothy Bloom and Chase Parker to Receive 2026 Prince Fellowship and Prince/TLLP Fellowship

Playbill: The Prince Fellowship, formerly known as The T. Fellowship, was renamed in 2021 to honor the work of the late producer, director, and T. Fellowship founder Harold Prince. Prince created the program to usher in the next generation of creative producers.

Jackalope's Living Newspaper Festival Brings Today's Headlines to the Stage

www.newcitystage.com: The Living Newspaper, pioneered by the Federal Theater Project under the helm of Hallie Flanagan in the 1930s, was a project of the Works Progress Administration, part of a push to employ artists in the wake of the Great Depression. This revolutionary theatrical form has made it to 2026 with the help of Jackalope Theatre, who presented their Seventeenth Annual Living Newspaper Festival at their home in Edgewater’s Broadway Armory Park this past weekend.

10 Must-Visit University Art Museums in the U.S.

AFAR: If autumn has you thinking about school days but you’ve long since graduated, consider visiting a university art museum. These extensive art collections are often housed in strikingly modern buildings designed by powerhouse architects like the late Zaha Hadid. And most have free admission. In no particular order, these are 10 of our favorite university art museums for a dose of culture and a dash of campus-life nostalgia.

PPI Urges Court to Reject Live Nation-Ticketmaster Settlement

www.ticketnews.com: The Progressive Policy Institute is urging the federal judge reviewing the Justice Department’s proposed settlement with Live Nation and Ticketmaster to reject the agreement, arguing that meaningful competition would require not only separating Ticketmaster from Live Nation but breaking the ticketing giant into several smaller companies.

Meredith McDonough Becomes Trinity Rep's New Artistic Director

BroadwayWorld: This August, Meredith McDonough began her tenure as Trinity Repertory Company's seventh Artistic Director. McDonough, whose appointment was announced in March, joins Executive Director Katie Liberman and Board of Trustees Chair Kibbe Reilly in leading the storied nonprofit. This moment marks the first time in which all of the theater's leaders identify as women.

The Show That Makes New Yorkers the Stars of Their Own City

The New York Times: Dripping water from A.C. units. Getting priced out of your neighborhood. A damn-fine bacon, egg and cheese. ICE agents. Falling in love. Grieving a sibling’s death. Being proud of your identity. Moving to the city’s beat. And, obviously, Knicks in Five.

Pittsburgh CLO and Pittsburgh Public to Merge as Confluence Theater

AMERICAN THEATRE: In the latest news from a historic if bumpy theatre merger between Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera (CLO) and Pittsburgh Public Theater (PPT), a new name for the combined theatre has been announced: Confluence Theater of Pittsburgh. Confluence’s name was reportedly chosen by Pittsburgh residents themselves. According to release from the new company, it will combine the musicals that Pittsburgh CLO is known for with the classic and contemporary plays typically produced by Pittsburgh Public Theater.

Meet the Google Exec Trying to Convince a Skeptical Gaming Industry to Love AI

gizmodo.com: In a gold rush, the people who get rich aren’t the grubby prospectors digging for those nuggets in the muck; it’s the men who sell the shovels. In that vein, Google, with generative tools like Genie, Veo, and Gemini, is competing to become the biggest provider of AI for the gaming industry. I talked to the man at Google who’s in charge of selling the shovels.

AI, drone swarms and digital manufacturing workflows at IMTS 2026

Control Design: The International Manufacturing Technology Show (IMTS) stands as the western hemisphere's largest manufacturing technology trade show, drawing around 100,000 attendees to explore miles of industrial manufacturing equipment. The event serves as an essential, hands-on marketplace where buyers can interact with capital machinery and automation components, collaborate directly with suppliers and solve real-world challenges.

Venice Immersive 2026 FOMO Guide

www.noproscenium.com: While Katrina Lat is on the ground for us at the Venice Film Festival’s now legendary Immersive showcase we’re still feeling some mighty levels of FOMO. At least for the pieces on this list we haven’t had the pleasure to catch in secret yet. What follows are a baker’s dozen picks from the In Competition section for what we’re most looking forward to experiencing — for the first or in some cases second time — both at the festival (in the case of Kat) and beyond (the rest of us, especially Noah).

Playmakers Repertory Company Will Launch North Carolina Folk Play Project

BroadwayWorld: PlayMakers Repertory Company has announced the launch of the North Carolina Folk Play Project, a new statewide initiative inviting writers and storytellers from across North Carolina to submit short plays exploring the stories, communities and experiences that make our state unique.

Dollywood details 2027 plans to honor Dolly Parton

www.themeparkinsider.com: In a presentation at the Pigeon Forge, Tennessee theme park today, Dollywood Parks & Resorts President Eugene Naughton revealed that Dolly Parton, before her death last week, had reviewed and approved expansion plans for the park and its hotels for the next 10 years. That means that Dolly's direct influence will continue to be felt at the park for the next decade and beyond.

Jasmine Amy Rogers, Ben Levi Ross, and Sam Tutty Are Winners of Clive Barnes Awards

Playbill: The 16th Annual Clive Barnes Award ceremony will be held on October 19 at 6:30 PM at the Martha Graham Studios in New York City. Hosted by Budd Mishkin of 1010WINS and Before the Cheering Started podcast, the annual Clive Barnes Awards recognizes young, outstanding talent.

Interview: Evan Taylor of SHIT-FACED SHAKESPEARE PRESENTS MACBETH at Southern Theatre

BroadwayWorld: No trash cans will be safe when Evan Taylor and the cast of Shit-faced Shakespeare present MACBETH 8 p.m. Sept. 25 at the Southern Theatre (21 E. Main St. in downtown Columbus). The last time the Boston theatre troupe performed at the Southern, Taylor played Laertes in HAMLET.