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Sunday, January 28, 2024

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Misbehaving audiences want to go viral. Here’s how theater could take the mic back

Datebook: In each incident, the actual performances — the art for which audiences bought tickets — remained in the background or didn’t even make it into the viral video’s camera frame. That’s not what was interesting. What’s interesting is us. The theater is merely a site for the execution of proper decorum, and the only possible narrative is the decorum’s violation.

‘Harry Potter and the Goblet™’ of Fire in Concert is an Immersive Journey Through Film and Music

onStage Pittsburgh: The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra takes the stage this weekend to perform the score to the fourth installment of the Harry Potter film series: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire™. The film is the sequel to Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which the symphony performed in concert last year. Hufflepuffs, Gryffindors, Slytherins, and Ravenclaws packed Heinz Hall Friday evening for the first of two performances of the beloved film.

“Mean Girls” Costume Designer Tom Broecker on Dressing the Plastics as Gen Z

The Credits: The movie based on the musical based on the 2004 movie Mean Girls is here, with Angourie Rice taking Lindsey Lohan’s place as Cady, the homeschooled teenager plunged into the catty horror of American public high school social politics. Written by Tina Fey and directed by Samantha Jayne and Arturo Perez Jr., in this musical Gen Z update, everyone has smartphones now, but the movie stays true to the original’s most beloved beats.

Immersive journey brings Europe's heaviest waterfall to life

www.avinteractive.com: Located in northern Switzerland, the Rheinfall is the most powerful waterfall in Europe by average flow rate and attracts thousands of visitors each year. The Rhyality Immersive Art Hall, located directly above the falls inside a redeveloped industrial complex, seeks to share this experience by offering an immersive journey that showcases the sights and sounds of the falls.

Explore Maze-Like Passageways Exploding with Elaborate Mosaics at Philadelphia's Magic Gardens

Colossal: When mosaic artist Isaiah Zagar moved to Philadelphia’s South Street in the 1960s, he saw an opportunity to not only revitalize a neglected area but transform it into a haven for creatives. He established his studio there and was joined by a community of artists and activists who saw potential and wanted it to thrive, even preventing a major highway construction project that would have obliterated the neighborhood.

 

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