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Sunday, March 21, 2021

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

‘Jagged Little Pill’ Shows Broadways Should Prioritize Accessibility

Observer: As a child living in Manhattan, the magic of Broadway was everything. But as an adult with an autoimmune disease living in California, I thought I’d never attend a Broadway play again. Sitting still for hours without the ability to prop my legs triggers pain and vasculitis, and even pre-COVID, flying was difficult due to my health.

Documentary captures CMU drama students 'Working in the Theatre' despite the pandemic

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Theater and higher education have both been significantly affected and transformed by the pandemic. What happens when you look at the two sectors together? The American Theatre Wing, the nonprofit that produces the Tony Awards, turned their long-running documentary series, “Working in the Theatre,” to Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama to give an inside look into how the institution has persevered in an uncertain time.

On toxic artistic leadership (part three): Manifesto for theater ethics

DC Metro Theater Arts: Back in the 1980s, the Harvard University Business School dismissed offers to create a curriculum in ethics—free of charge, if I remember correctly; an alumnus even offered to pay for it. The Business faculty rejected it as totally unnecessary (how dare anyone insinuate that Harvard produced cheats?).

How Elizabeth Olsen Helped Design WandaVision’s New Scarlet Witch Costume

screenrant.com: Here's how Elizabeth Olsen helped design WandaVision's new Scarlet Witch costume. WandaVision was Marvel's first television series on Disney+ and quickly became a massive hit with critics and fans alike. The story centered on Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) coming to terms over losing Vision (Paul Bettany) and fully accepting her role as the legendary Scarlet Witch.

SF Opera and UCSF's New Mask for Singers Helps Bring Back In-Person Performances

KQED: Sanziana Roman is a classically-trained soprano who also happens to be a professor of surgery and thyroid surgeon at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF). "I just couldn't bear the thought that I may not make it as a singer," Roman says. "So I went to medical school." San Francisco Opera (SF Opera) has enlisted Roman as one of a handful of UCSF medical experts to help determine what it would take to bring live opera back.

 

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