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Monday, April 04, 2022

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

How Tattoos Invite Audiences to Look Closer

Playbill: One of the hidden easter eggs in the Katrina Lenk-led production of Company is on Bobby Conte’s forearm. PJ, the equivalent of the original character Marta in the gender-changed revival, has an XXXV tattoo. (In the musical, Bobbie is celebrating her XXXV birthday.) Look closely at Hades in Hadestown, too, especially in the second act. He has bricks etched onto his left arm. Characters with tattoos are becoming increasingly common on Broadway; this season, both Clyde's and Company employed tattoo designers to generate the ink art displayed on actors.

The Courtship's Fashion Designer on Regency Costumes on Reality TV

www.townandcountrymag.com: Reality dating television shows have started coming up with even more absurd premises to break through in the saturated landscape. Not that we're complaining: The Courtship, billed as a Regency-era take on the Bachelorette, is a dating show in Regency cosplay, and it's as delightful as it sounds.

Review: Frida Kahlo Immersive offers colorful glimpse of Mexican artist's life and work

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: As the Immersive Frida Kahlo show opens, viewers are transported to Mexico City, a metropolis where street vendors sell flowers in front of imposing classical buildings with the Sierra Madre mountains in the distance. Piercing the serenity of this scene is a thunderous explosion of shattering glass, a visual reference to the day that forever altered the Mexican artist’s life.

Bridgerton – how period dramas made audiences hate the corset

theconversation.com: When you think of a corset, you might imagine period drama dames sucking in as they cling onto a bedpost as a feisty lady’s maid aggressively laces them in. Nextflix’s hot Regency inspired drama Bridgerton features similar such tortuous scenes.

How interview questions are changing in 2022

www.fastcompany.com: Over the past two years, companies and employees have had to adapt to new ways of working, ranging from shifting how they serve customers to where employees work. But now, things are changing again. Many companies have or are planning to welcome employees back to the office, at least part of the time.

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