CMU School of Drama


Sunday, February 09, 2020

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week:

Pittsburgh Public's 'Little Shop of Horrors' is a "Boisterously Enjoyable Production'

Pittsburgh Current: If anyone you know asks how come musicals these days have all been adapted from movies (instead of novels or real life like they used to be) I’d suggest you send them to the Pittsburgh Public Theater to catch their production of Little Shop of Horrors. The almost completely sold-out audience I saw the show with (on an evening when there was a sports game in town) proves the efficacy of a cinematic lineage.

Hard Skills vs Soft Skills: Why Are They Important to Your Career?

www.lifehack.org: Throughout your career, you will be judged on your hard skills. But you will advance faster and further based on your soft skills. Having technical skills that qualify you to do the work will only take you so far. Soft skills bolster your career by allowing you to effectively interact with others in your work setting.

How to Recover After Burnout

Adobe 99U: Burnout, unfortunately, is everywhere. If you haven’t experienced it personally, you probably know someone who has self-diagnosed. Defined by the World Health Organization as a syndrome “conceptualized as resulted from chronic workplace stress,” it causes exhaustion, “feelings of negativism or cynicism,” and reduced efficacy. That’s a big umbrella, and the condition has become something of a catch-all for chronic, modern-day stress.

Why I Love Binge-Watching Theatre

Theatre Development Fund – TDF: Water bottle? Check! Lozenges I'll unwrap before the curtain goes up? Yup. A change of clothes? That last one might seem like a strange thing to pack for an evening at the theatre, but as I learned a few years ago at Forced Entertainment's And on the Thousandth Night (which began at midnight and ended at 6 a.m. so audiences could watch the sun rise on their way home), sometimes you need a fresh shirt—especially if you've been at a production for most of the night.

Oscars 2020: A Glittering Cyclone Will Set the Scene on the Big Night

Architectural Digest: There’s always a reasonable expectation of spectacle at the annual Academy Awards presentation, from the fashion on the red carpet to the stage where the proceedings unfold. For the Oscars this year, the task of conjuring a suitably glamorous backdrop for the show of shows fell to Emmy Award–winning designer and creative director Jason Sherwood.

No comments: