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.

Five Ways AI Can Actually Help Your Print Shop

www.signshop.com: Artificial intelligence was everywhere at PRINTING United Expo 2026 in Las Vegas, with manufacturers and software developers demonstrating how the technology can improve everything from artwork preparation to production management. The show featured the return of the PRINTING AI Pavilion, along with demonstrations of software designed to help printers automate everyday tasks and reduce production headaches.

She Believed She Could: Lisa Goldberg Takes Us Inside The World of Broadway Publicity

BroadwayWorld: Behind every glamorous event, gorgeous photoshoot, or viral interview you love from your favorite Broadway stars is an army of professionals who rarely, if ever, step into the spotlight themselves. Leading the way are often PR professionals like publicist Lisa Goldberg, whose firm, LSG Public Relations, gets top talent and newcomers alike noticed when it matters.

Why This Playwright Can’t Quit His Family of Anxious Liberals

The New York Times: It was September 2020, and after 10 years, four in-person plays and three pandemic-era virtual installments, the playwright Richard Nelson truly thought he had finished with the Apple family, the mainstays of his politically attuned Rhinebeck play series. But then Donald Trump was elected to a second term, and Nelson realized he wanted to hear from the Apples again.

‘World’s deepest rave’ makes mountain part of signal chain

AV Magazine: British DJ Roni Size has performed a set 419m below ground that explored how to make the mine itself part of the performance. Ahead of the G-Shock Sessions set inside Cwmorthin slate mine in north Wales, sound engineers measured the mine’s impulse response using convolution reverb to explore its acoustic characteristics.

HELL’S KITCHEN’S BROADWAY BUYOUT

by Philip Boroff: Investors normally buy into shows before they open. In an unusual deal, an intellectual-property investment company has acquired the rights to revenue from the Broadway production of the Alicia Keys musical Hell’s Kitchen, which closed in February at a loss.

Milan opera house workers to strike for pay rise, opening night at risk

www.wantedinmilan.com: Workers at Milan’s La Scala opera house have voted to strike for a full day on Tuesday 20 October, the date of the season’s scheduled opening night of Gounod’s Faust, conducted by Daniele Rustioni.

IATSE’s First Tech Officer Talks AI and Reskilling

www.hollywoodreporter.com: Enter Jillian Arnold, the more than 170,000-person labor group’s first labor and technology intelligence officer, tasked with keeping the union abreast of technological developments and protecting its workers. With a jurisdiction spanning the U.S. and Canada, she’s set to get involved in contract negotiations, reskilling and upskilling initiatives and federal and state policy efforts.

Splice Joints for Crown Molding

www.jlconline.com: When I’m installing crown molding in a large room, the walls are often longer than the material used to trim it out, and the scarf-joint technique I use when installing baseboard doesn’t work quite so well with crown. What is the fastest and most efficient way to make nearly invisible splice joints in the molding?

Interview: Danny Becker of RAGTIME at Rubicon Theatre Company

BroadwayWorld: You wouldn't know it from talking to him but actor Danny Becker, who was born in Great Britain and is making his American principal debut in the Rubic0n Theatre Company's production of Ragtime has a lot more in common with his character, the Latvian Jew Tateh, than you might expect.

So Far Away, So Close: Dispatches From Iranian Theatre Artists

AMERICAN THEATRE: “I’ve been writing toward this moment for a long time,” Iranian American playwright Sanaz Toossi told me over email over the summer, as hostilities between the U.S. and Iran ramped up again after a tenuous ceasefire. But she doesn’t just mean the current war, which began in February and shows no signs of a conclusion. “What is happening to our people right now,” she said, “has been happening for the last 47 years. It may shift in and out of the news cycle, but the brutality inflicted on Iranians at the hands of the Islamic Republic has been an unshakeable, constant reality.”

Student Blog: A Fresh Start - Creating Routine While Navigating a New Life

BroadwayWorld: Freshman year is something very true to its name - a complete fresh start. Many of us have moved across state lines, away from any family and communities we’ve grown up with, all to pursue big dreams of careers in musical theater. To be honest, I still have to Google my new zip code every time I fill out a form. Essentially this is the biggest change in many of our lives so far and we have to try to make new friends, adjust to our new homes and find some semblance of normalcy in a completely new life - all while making sure we wake up for 8AM music theory. It’s a transition that is really no joke. So creating systems and routines is essential for success academically, artistically and socially.

Raskin Introduces Antitrust Bill After Live Nation Settlement

www.ticketnews.com: Rep. Jamie Raskin has introduced legislation aimed at strengthening judicial oversight of federal antitrust settlements, citing the controversial agreement between the Justice Department and Live Nation-Ticketmaster and newly disclosed details about President Donald Trump’s involvement in the negotiations.

Female Student Sues for Gender Discrimination After Losing Male Lead Role in Play

The New York Times: Ana Mota, a 17-year-old senior at South Grand Prairie High School in Texas, loves theater. She has played big and small roles in school productions: Miss Honey in “Matilda,” Annie in “The Play That Goes Wrong,” a prisoner in “Dark Road” and an ensemble member in “Chicago.”

L.A. City Council Passes Motions to Make the City More Film-Friendly

www.hollywoodreporter.com: As filming levels in the city continue their downward momentum, the Los Angeles City Council passed two measures in a meeting on Wednesday to attempt to stem the bleeding.

Tom Hanks, Kelli O'Hara Set Broadway Return in 2027

www.ticketnews.com: Tom Hanks and Kelli O’Hara will star in a Broadway production of “This World of Tomorrow” in fall 2027, bringing the play to Broadway following its 2025 Off-Broadway premiere. Hanks co-wrote the work with James Glossman, adapting his own short stories for the stage.

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Iconic horror film costumes that became cult classics

vogueadria.com: With Halloween approaching, we couldn’t help but think back to some of the scariest, but also most fascinating, costumes in film history. From masks that make us uneasy the moment we see them to seemingly ordinary outfits that conceal the darker sides of their characters, costumes in horror films are often far more than mere visual details.

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.

In The Mood for Monster Murals? Here's Where to Find Them

Pittsburgh Magazine: If typical Halloween decorations aren’t putting you in a spooky mood, try one of Jeremy Raymer’s murals as a selfie backdrop. The artist has spray-painted dozens of scenes throughout the city, including numerous monster-themed walls in Lawrenceville, Bloomfield and the Strip District.

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.

 

Iconic horror film costumes that became cult classics

vogueadria.com: With Halloween approaching, we couldn’t help but think back to some of the scariest, but also most fascinating, costumes in film history. From masks that make us uneasy the moment we see them to seemingly ordinary outfits that conceal the darker sides of their characters, costumes in horror films are often far more than mere visual details.

Student speaks out after Grand Prairie ISD halts musical over casting decision

FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth: The Grand Prairie ISD school board met for the first time since canceling a musical production at South Grand Prairie High School. The district claimed it was because a female student was cast as the male lead in the play ‘Little Shop of Horrors’. The district also blamed the award-winning show's content.

The Performing Arts Are the New Civics (opinion)

www.insidehighered.com: Civics education is all the rage. At public universities across the country, red-state legislatures are mandating the creation of new civics centers and prescribing undergraduate course requirements for American history and government. At Iowa’s flagship, the Center for Intellectual Freedom, founded in 2025 by GOP lawmakers, is the only academic unit permitted to offer two new required civics courses. In Utah, a 2025 state law gave Utah State University’s new Center for Civic Excellence control over the university’s entire general education program.

In The Mood for Monster Murals? Here's Where to Find Them

Pittsburgh Magazine: If typical Halloween decorations aren’t putting you in a spooky mood, try one of Jeremy Raymer’s murals as a selfie backdrop. The artist has spray-painted dozens of scenes throughout the city, including numerous monster-themed walls in Lawrenceville, Bloomfield and the Strip District.

New Opera by Élodie Bouny and Historian James N. Green Revisits the Brazilian Military Dictatorship

OperaWire: Opera and history converged compellingly in São Paulo, Brazil, with the unveiling of “Esquecer? Nunca Mais!” (“Forget? Never Again!”) at São Paulo’s Teatro Moise Safra. It is a new work that vividly confronts the devastating impact of the Brazil’s grim military dictatorship. This opera, conceived by renowned historian and Brazilianist James N. Green, and set to music by acclaimed composer Élodie Bouny alongside Roee Ben Sira, brings to the lyrical stage a harrowing yet resilient narrative based on a true story of political resistance in the face of unrepressed tyranny.

Michael Jackson’s Iconic Costumes Come to Ireland Ahead of Julien’s Auctions Sale

MJVibe: Michael Jackson fans in Ireland will have a rare opportunity to see some remarkable pieces of his performance history when A Thriller Of An Exhibition – Michael Jackson: A Fashion Legacy opens at the Museum of Style Icons at Newbridge Silverware in County Kildare on Friday, October 30. After Osaka, Japan, the exhibition is on its way to Ireland being the only European stop. There was rumours to also stop in London before it goes to Abu Dhabi, but clearly this is no longer on the table.

The Costumes of 'Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother'

Interview: Writer-director Bassam Tariq‘s “Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother” is one of those rare movies that doesn’t feel like anything you’ve seen before. That’s partly due to the unusual blend of tones in its premise — a devout Muslim family man (Mahershala Ali) is also a contract killer whose religion and job are in serious conflict — and partly due to its depiction of a group of people (practicing Muslims living in Houston, Texas) who don’t normally get their stories told on American movie screens.

What are the foundations of motion control?

Control Design: Emerging motion control uses unified control architecture, artificial intelligence (AI), edge computing and cabinet-free hardware to make industrial machines faster, smaller and smarter. Add independent cart technology and predictive analytics, and we can see the future of motion control.

Here Is a Latiné/Caribbean Musical I Love

HowlRound Theatre Commons: Quick, name five Latiné or Caribbean musicals written in the last fifteen years! Not In the Heights—it has been almost twenty since that one premiered. You have thirty seconds! Go! Did you do it? If you could not, you are not alone. Most of the people we talked to while researching our upcoming book on Latiné and Caribbean musicals could not do it either.

Pennsylvania Plays a Sweet Role in ‘Hershey’

Pittsburgh Magazine: The PG-rated biopic starring Finn Wittrock and Alexandra Daddario as Milton and Catherine “Kitty” Hershey was shot across 17 diverse filming locations in Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh, Hershey, Harmony, Smithfield and Ligonier.

Isles of the Damned: a New Orleans swamp haunted house

boingboing.net: Greetings, all. I'll be your psychopomp this evening, the keeper of the crypt, the mistress of the dank, the lightning rod of this sterling dungeon, if you will. I ask you now to picture something horrid, something ghastly, but all too real…

The Dismantling of Teatro de Contêiner

HowlRound Theatre Commons: In the middle of a brisk mid-August evening in 2025 in São Paulo, I meet a friend near Praça Roosevelt. He’s a theatre producer from Rio de Janeiro in town for work. We are supposed to get drinks, catch up. Instead, he whisks me away with him to the neighborhood of Luz at the site of Teatro de Contêiner, where we join a crowd of hundreds protesting against the theatre’s eviction from the space.

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.