'Stage & Screen' Auction Raises $138,000 For The Actors Fund

www.broadwayworld.com: The Actors Fund and Doyle Auctioneers & Appraisers recently partnered with Christine Baranski on the "Stage & Screen" auction event, which raised a total of $138,625 specifically for The Fund, not including the 10% of Doyle's own profits from the rest of the sale.

Should You Include Your Mailing Address On Your Resume?

lifehacker.com: Most every resume template includes a spot for your home address, but do you really need to include it? If you’re a privacy hawk, you might chafe at doing so, and not only because prospective employers are highly unlikely to choose to contact you via snail mail: Including your address on something as public as a CV might introduce a degree of socioeconomic bias into the recruiting/hiring process, potentially harming your chances at landing a new gig.

In-Person, Indoor Arts Festival Concerts Will Use New Health And Safety Precautions

90.5 WESA: After going entirely virtual in 2020, this year’s Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival marks a partial return to an in-person festival, but with a pandemic twist.

3D Print 18,000 Famous Sculptures with Free Online Museum

Nerdist: Many museums around the world remain shuttered. Fortunately, you can still visit some of the best virtually, from the comfort and safety of your own couch. But why stop there? Forget just looking at pictures on your computer. You can now can bring some of the most famous and exalted works of art into your home. And you can do it for free.

SAG-AFTRA Sets Intimacy Coordinators Accreditation Program

Variety: SAG-AFTRA unveiled an accreditation program and a registry for intimacy coordinators on Thursday, as part of the union’s broader efforts to combat sexual harassment on set. The union has been involved in standardizing the intimacy coordinator profession since 2019. In January 2020, the union issued guidelines for intimacy coordinators, including standards for how to communicate with actors before filming explicit scenes, details of nudity riders, and closed-set protocols.

Three Rivers Arts Festival announces hybrid events lineup and health measures for June

Arts + Entertainment | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: The Dollar Bank Three Rivers Arts Festival is one of the largest, most anticipated cultural events in Pittsburgh, providing opportunities for crowds to view and buy art, see free live music performances, and more. On Thu., April 29, the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust announced the Festival's return to in-person events (kind of) after the pandemic moved it totally online last year.

Rigging in a Music Performance Studio

ASTC: Whenever a theatre consultant collaborates with an architect and a user to design a venue, one of the questions that quickly arises is: How will this venue be used? This question applies to the types of performances the venue needs to host, but just as critically to the frequency with which the intended performances take place, the level of production value, and the amount of production staff that may or may not be available to change over the venue between events.

How To Use MIXBOOK® To Choose Gel Colors For Your Next Photo Shoot

www.rosco.com: Paul Monaghan is a photographer and Sigma Ambassador from Scotland who recently published a review of our MIXBOOK Digital Swatchbook on DIYPhotography.net. Below are excerpts from Paul’s article that describe how MIXBOOK works, how he used it for a self-portrait project, and how photographers can use MIXBOOK to choose the gel colors for their upcoming photo shoots.

Create Spatial Audio Anytime, Anywhere with New L-ISA Studio

LightSoundJournal.com: L-Acoustics breaks new boundaries with a revamped, innovative approach to the workflow of spatial audio content creation with the new L-ISA Studio software suite and upgraded L-ISA engine. Built with sound designers and mixing engineers in mind, L-ISA Studio is designed for countless creative, immersive audio experiences. Immediately available for download, it takes the power and versatility of the concert-proven L‑ISA technology and puts it into the hands of sound creators, allowing them to formulate multidimensional audio wherever and whenever they are ready to create.

Comparing Digital Access with Arts Vibrancy in the U.S.

AMT Lab @ CMU: In 2021, at the tail end of a pandemic, we understand that our daily lives are somewhat inextricably entangled with the internet. Yet, an estimated 18 million households in the United States do not have access to home broadband. This is a statistic that arts managers should consider when planning online programming and in-person events as the world opens up. By looking closer at the digital divide and comparing counties’ internet access to their arts vibrancy, as measured by SMU DataArts, this article will look at the United States’ digital divide and how it impacts opportunities for arts participation.

The Sahara’s Azilo Ultra joins the Las Vegas pool party

Las Vegas Weekly: When Resorts World Las Vegas arrives on the Strip on June 24, it will become the third new major casino property to open in just eight months, following the Circa Resort on Fremont Street Downtown and Virgin Hotels Las Vegas at the former Hard Rock Hotel site.

David Treadwell: MSMT and the Fulton Theatre: A win-win collaboration

Portland Press Herald: To succeed in musical theater, one must be able to sing, dance and act. Not many such performers also possess the ability to direct. And even fewer people who can sing, dance, act, and direct also have the leadership skills to oversee a superb regional theater. And how many among that rare breed possess the courage, stamina, resiliency and wisdom to guide a theater through a pandemic, a challenge for which there is no playbook, no script?

Meow Wolf Denver to open fall 2021 with music venue, cafe

theknow.denverpost.com: The long-awaited Denver location of Meow Wolf will open this fall with a 450-person music venue, cafe and retail space in addition to its hundreds of handmade sculptures and environments. Based in Santa Fe, Meow Wolf has expanded rapidly in recent years with outside investments and new, planned locations in Denver and Las Vegas.

Chris Jones Once Again Fails The Theatre Industry

OnStage Blog: Chris Jones’ opinion column for the Chicago Tribune on April 22, 2021, titled “Broadway’s capitalist model isn’t perfect, but here’s why it works, and what can be fixed” brought strong criticism, critique, and anger from theatre workers both in Chicago, on Broadway, and nationally.

'Best Summer Ever' Serves As Blueprint For Disability Representation

Variety: The opening musical number in “Best Summer Ever” ends with a kiss between protagonists Sage (Shannon DeVido) and Tony (Rickey Wilson Jr.), who fall in love at a sleepaway dance camp in Vermont. Executive producer Will Halby said he shared a realization with his crew while filming this scene.

‘We’re Not Going Back’: Inside Broadway’s Racial Reckoning

www.forbes.com: It’s been over a year since the live entertainment industry went dark, and while the damage has been catastrophic, hope of recovery is on the horizon. Vaccines and federal aid are allowing venues to plan - finally, cautiously - for autumn reopenings.

Can you remove reflections from live measurements for more accurate alignments?

www.sounddesignlive.com: In my last article I found some minor success in validating subwoofer alignment indoors through the use of carefully chosen microphone locations and their average. Next up: Can it be done live in real time?

A closer look at Cirque du Soleil’s restart in Las Vegas

www.cirquefascination.com: Cirque du Soleil announced last week that its two longest running Las Vegas Strip shows will be the Canadian company’s first resident productions to return their respective stages. “Mystére,” originally opened in 1993, will come alive again at Treasure Island on June 28, while “O” at Bellagio, which first arrived in 1998, reopens on July 1.

Pittsburgh arts venues Glitter Box and Babyland close, plan to relocate

Arts + Entertainment | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: The Glitter Box Theater and Babyland, two active, community-based arts spaces, have lost their homes as tenants of Oakland's Bloomcraft Building. The organizations announced the news this week on their respective social media accounts. For the last few years, both venues offered low-cost, accessible places for local artists, musicians, performers, and activists to meet and host events ranging from live punk shows to political fundraisers to play festivals.

‘Twilight: Gods’ reviews: Lyric Opera delivers a sensational drive-through Wagner in underground garage

Chicago Sun-Times: Parking garages are often dingy, dank, and, well, a little forbidding — in other words, the perfect, if totally unlikely setting for a radical reimagining of “Götterdämmerung.” The dark, ultimately redemptive work culminates Richard Wagner’s mythic 19th-century opera cycle, “Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung).”

Gymnastics unitards: German women replacing leotards in European championships are revolutionary.

slate.com/culture: At the 2021 European Gymnastics Championships in Basel, Switzerland, last week, three members of the German women’s team debuted more than sky-high tricks: First Sarah Voss in the qualifying competition, and then Elisabeth Seitz and Kim Bui in the all-around final (where they placed fifth and seventh respectively) performed their routines not in leotards, but in stunning unitards.

"Six Men for Every Four Women": Gender Inequalities in Theatre Programming Revealed in New Cross-Europe Study

The Theatre Times: Gender Equality and Diversity in European Theatres, a study by the European Theatre Convention (ETC), finds that four women are mentioned in theatre programmes for every six men—and that men dominate job categories of playwright, director, and technical staff, while women hold more than 70% of the positions of “costumes” and “hairdressing.”

Actors' Equity Association Concludes First-Ever Convention

www.broadwayworld.com: Actors' Equity Association has concluded its first-ever convention, from April 25 to 27. Because it is not yet safe to convene in person, the delegates met remotely to recommend policy for the future of the union in accordance with the convention's theme: "Equity: Solidarity in a New Era," as well as to attend breakout sessions to learn more as member leaders and hear from guest speakers.

The Uncomfortable Truth

ARTS Blog: I don’t know which upset people more—the words “white, Western, Eurocentric” to describe legacy organizations as they were when ASC was founded, or a visual showing how, from 1991 to 2020 and due to ASC’s inequitable grant making practices, nine institutions each received more in operating support than all ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, Native American) organizations combined.

Ridgid 18V Brushless Combo Kit Review

Tool Box Buzz: When we recently got to test the Ridgid 18V Brushless combo kit on the job site we had a lot of positive takeaways and a few feedback items. The timing was great since we were in the middle of a large residential remodel project. We use the 4-piece 18V kit to cut trim and drywall, drive countless screws into stud framing, and drill ample electrical pass through holes among other tasks.

Learning New Skills

SoundGirls.org: So I learnt a new skill. Or rather, I improved a skill I haven’t used since university. I learnt it from a man called John and he was, in my opinion, the best tutor we had. He had a PhD and taught us about the avant-garde world of music and presented us with new ideas. “Will a tree make a sound if it falls in the forest if no one is there to hear it?” and other fundamentals of sound and sonic art.

"People are Hungry for Live Shows"

TAIT: It’s almost a year to the day since Ben Brooks (Brilliant Stages) and Nicole Massey (Production Manager, Billie Eilish) last saw each other. Over a Zoom call across the pond, Ben finds out more about Nicole’s approach to life on the road, as she reflects on the industry she loves and the turbulent year that’s kept her in one place – for the first time in nearly 20 years.

How to Make an Awesome Audio Rider

SoundGirls.org: An audio rider is essential to every gig. There can be a lot of confusion over what it should entail and how best to present the information, so here is how to make a clear, concise rider and the pitfalls to avoid. Much of this might seem obvious, but even people on arena tours make some of these mistakes. If you already know everything in this post, share it with your musician friends who don’t have an engineer yet so they can make great riders too.

Dance Schools Are Updating Their Dress Codes to Become More Inclusive

Dance Magazine: Catalyzed by the national reckoning on racial injustice last summer, much of the dance world began to ponder some tough questions, one being: "Who does traditional dancewear leave out?"

An experiment: Attending a CounterPulse show, first online, then in person

Datebook: In July, the dance and performance art presenter CounterPulse asked its audiences what their attendance desires and safety preferences were, thinking it might be able to safely host indoor events again at its Tenderloin venue by fall. “This survey told us we should pump the brakes in reopening,” recalls Justin Ebrahemi, the company’s director of communications and advancement. “A lot of people were not comfortable being in a full house again or waiting in line to purchase a ticket.”

Divestment and Dissent – Artists Speak Out on Steppenwolf Theatre

rescripted.org: Steppenwolf has had internal complaints about equity from their staff of color for years, which began to accelerate after The Great Leap when Deanna Myers’ complaints of harassment on the job went viral on social media. In the past year they have struggled to retain their staff of color for a variety of reasons, many having to do with inhospitable job environments, under-resourced shows, and pay inequity. Recently, two artists affiliated with the theatre have spoken to their journeys of navigating and negotiating with this institution. This article includes all three statements from these artists including the essay published by Isaac Gomez just today.

2021 Oscars, Academy Awards, Set Design

www.townandcountrymag.com: As with all pandemic-era events, the 93rd Academy Awards are going to look a little different than usual. At the helm as production designer, David Rockwell is doing his best to ensure the night is full of cinematic magic. It's a role reprisal for the award-winning architect and set designer, who also did the Oscars' sets in 2009 and 2010.

my older brother told me a story once

by isaac gómez | Apr, 2021 | Medium: I could say a lot about each of these institutions, but I won’t. For the context of this prayer, all you need to know is that each of these companies took a piece of my spirit that I’ve been trying to get back. My healing is a very private process. I don’t need anyone to bear witness. I don’t need anyone cancelled or fired or dragged through the mud. Public shaming does nothing for me. It doesn’t heal me, which is all I want.

DEWALT XR Reciprocating Saw DCS368 Review

Tool Box Buzz: Recently, we had a chance to put the DEWALT DCS368 XR With Power Detect™ to the test. DEWALT has certainly given this tool and the other four tools with Power Detect™ a lot of press to educate users as to the power increase that this technology produces.

Time To Review – To Whom Are You Accountable?

Butts In the Seats: During the Covid pandemic there has been a fair bit of introspection and soul searching about arts and culture, the role they should have in people’s lives, and the medium through which the experience should be delivered.

There’s No Better Time Than Now to Upgrade Your Flooring: Here's How

Dance Magazine: Studio owners: The light at the end of the recital tunnel is in sight, and your summer intensive won't start for a few weeks after that. Now is the time to tackle all those pesky studio-upkeep projects that you can't deal with while dancers are literally underfoot. Longtime studio owners Marisa Mailhes (of Red Door Dance Academy) and Misty Lown (of Misty's Dance Unlimited) have both relied on this timing in the past to upgrade their buildings' dance flooring—and they're here to show you how Stagestep Flooring helped them get it done with a minimum of stress.

The Anything But A Paintbrush Challenge

www.rosco.com: Scenic Artist Tessa Broyles shared her version of the “Anything But A Paintbrush” challenge in one of her recent Behind The Scenics Videos. In this case, she chose to paint a landscape scene without her trusty paintbrush. Whether you are a scenic student or an experienced scenic painter, this project is a great way to practice using unique tools in order to develop creative techniques for painting scenery.

What Vaccines Mean for Ballet Companies

Pointe: As the coronavirus pandemic grinds into its second year, the toll on ballet companies—and dancers—has been steep. How long before dancers can rehearse and perform as they once did? Like most things, the return to normal for ballet seems to hinge on vaccinations. Just over 22 percent of people in the U.S. are now vaccinated, a way from the estimated 70 to 85 percent experts believe can bring back something similar to pre-pandemic life.

Disney Imagineering’s “Project Kiwi” Bears Groot

Hackaday: Some days, we might be forgiven for believing Boston Dynamics has cornered the market on walking robots. They (and other players) are making incredible progress in their field, but three years ago Disney, trying to create autonomous, free-walking robotic actors for some of their more diminutive film characters, found none of the existing platforms were appropriate.

Trader Sam animatronic on Jungle Cruise to be replaced with Trader Sam’s Gift Shop

attractionsmagazine.com: Disney has just shared plans for the final scene of Jungle Cruise as part of the ride’s planned updates at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Recently, the Trader Sam animatronic figure was removed from Walt Disney World’s version of the attraction. Today, Disney released concept art revealing Jungle Cruise’s new final scene, “Trader Sam’s Gift Shop.”

The World Isolates. A New Zealand Band Plays To 50,000 Fans

Pollstar: While much of the world remains hunkered down, the band Six60 has been playing to huge crowds in New Zealand, where social distancing isn’t required after the nation stamped out the coronavirus. The band’s tour finale on Saturday night was billed as the largest concert in the world since the pandemic began.

Oscars Diversity: Historic Wins Leap Over Low Bar Set By Hollywood

www.forbes.com: Like every single other awards ceremony in the past year, the 93rd annual Academy Awards looked a little different — but thank goodness it didn’t take place entirely on Zoom. We may have reached a point in the pandemic when virtual acceptance speeches have become awkward or challenged by a bad wifi connection. Nonetheless, like every ceremony since 2016’s great #OscarsSoWhite movement launched by April Reign, one of the main buzzwords of the night was diversity.

Scott Rudin, As Told by His Assistants

www.vulture.com: Like Harvey Weinstein before him, Scott Rudin has been called an “open secret” throughout the entertainment industry. For decades, the megaproducer — one of only 16 people to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony — has held a reputation as one of the worst bosses ever to work in Hollywood. Still, the press, and the industry itself, has often presented his abusive behavior — throwing computers, insults, and tantrums at his assistants — as the idiosyncratic by-product of an eccentric man.

Retired Hollywood workers: Industry isn’t diversifying as fast as it should be over past 50 years

www.kcrw.com/news: The Oscars are this Sunday, and the acting categories are showing diversity efforts by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. For people working “below the line” — those involved in daily pre-production, production, and post-production work — studios agreed to diversify their workforce and created a minority training program in 1969. It happened after the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recommended the Justice Department file a discrimination suit.

Celebrate August Wilson With a Look Back at His Work On Broadway

Playbill: Regarded as one of America’s greatest playwrights, Wilson made his Broadway debut in 1984 with Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, beginning a three-decade career on the Main Stem. That play is part of Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, a series of plays chronicling the African-American experience in each decade of the 20th century. During the course of his career, he earned nine Tony Award nominations, winning Best Play for 1987 for Fences. Additionally, he earned a Pulitzer Prize in 1987 for Fences and then again in 1990 for The Piano Lesson.

Dallas Opera debuts new Netflix-like subscription streaming service

CultureMap Dallas: Like most arts organizations, The Dallas Opera has been forced to rethink how it produces and presents works to audiences amid the COVID-19 pandemic. On April 26, it took a new step to bridge the gap between traditional concert hall and at-home entertainment with the launch of thedallasopera.TV, a new subscription streaming platform.

Have You Satisfied Your Covid Compliance Officer?

The New York Times: Dr. Linda Dahl was pacing the alleyway off a sound stage at Kaufman Astoria Studios in Long Island City. It was 7 a.m. on a gray April morning, and Dr. Dahl, an ear, nose and throat surgeon turned Covid compliance officer, was overseeing testing for the nearly 300-person cast and crew of a TV production. Already it had been a long day.

When the entertainment industry went dark, ATOMIC told a new story

Keystone Edge - What's Next & Best in Pennsylvania - Growth, Innovation, and Community News: Lititz, PA’s ATOMIC has designed and built sets for some of the world’s most-watched events, including The Academy Awards, WrestleMania, and the iHeart Music Awards. Founded in 1994 with just three employees, the company now has 60 people on staff. One of the company’s recent projects was especially high profile: They worked on the set for the Super Bowl LV Halftime Show in Tampa Bay. ATOMIC crafted the city skyline, which contained the socially distanced back-up singers for headline performer The Weeknd.

How Scott Rudin Wielded Power in Show Business

The New York Times: Scott Rudin has long been one of the most celebrated and powerful producers in Hollywood and, especially, on Broadway — an EGOT who won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and 17 Tony Awards while developing a reputation as one of the vilest bosses in the industry.

Pandemic Era Permitting Picks Up for March

FilmLA: FilmLA, partner film office for the City and County of Los Angeles and other local jurisdictions – today issued an update regarding regional filming activity. Since the resumption of on-location filming last June, FilmLA has received 6,585 film permit applications, spanning 4,421 unique projects.