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Sunday, December 11, 2022

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

8 Festive Facts You Need to Know About Holiday Décor at Walt Disney World

Disney Parks Blog: From cheerfully curated Christmas trees and festive wreaths to glittering garland and gingerbread structures with an aroma of sugar and spice, holiday festivities are in full swing at Walt Disney World Resort during the 50th Anniversary celebration, which runs through March 31, 2023.

20 Years of Playground at CMU Drama

Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama: The week of December 5-10, 2022 marks the twentieth anniversary of Playground, the School of Drama’s entirely student-run theater festival which takes place annually at the end of the fall semester. During Playground week, all drama classes are canceled, and within a four-day rehearsal period, students write, direct, design, perform, and produce original works. Performances and installations are open to the public and take place December 8-10 in various locations throughout the Purnell Center for the Arts.

Oscars actor categories: Should they go genderless?

GoldDerby: The Gotham Awards present genderless acting categories. The Independent Spirit Awards now present genderless acting categories. Even the MTV Movie and TV Awards have gone genderless with their performance awards. Should the Oscars follow suit? Scroll down to vote in our poll at the bottom of this post.

Entertainment Unions Urge Congress to Restore Tax Fairness for the Industry’s Workers

Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO: Americans will soon start gathering their receipts and documents to prepare their taxes, and entertainment workers anticipate owing unnecessarily burdensome amounts in taxes because they are unable to deduct required work expenses. In a letter sent today, unions of entertainment workers affiliated with the Department for Professional Employees, AFL-CIO (DPE) call on Congress to restore tax fairness for these middle-class creative professionals by passing the bipartisan Performing Artist Tax Parity Act (PATPA), S. 2872/H.R. 4750.

Broadway's KPOP Sets Abrupt Closing Date

Playbill: KPOP has announced that it will play its final Broadway performance December 11. The musical opened at Circle in the Square Theatre November 27 following the beginning of previews October 13. While in previews, the show cancelled multiple matinee performances. As of the final performance, the musical will have played 44 previews and 17 performances.

 

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