CMU School of Drama


Monday, April 29, 2024

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

AI meets opera: A new blended class at CMU yields insights on music and flow

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Inside a rehearsal room overlooking the verdant green of Schenley Park, countertenor Ricky Owens burst into song. His dazzling Russian opera was full of power and emotion. It also contained crucial data for a team of engineering students studying focus, distraction and flow.

Studio Ghibli’s work ‘like Shakespeare’, says My Neighbour Totoro stage show’s director

Studio Ghibli | The Guardian: The work of Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki should be considered as remarkable and timeless as Shakespeare’s First Folio, according to the director of the hit stage adaptation of My Neighbour Totoro, which is returning to the West End next year.

IATSE & OSHA Launch Investigations Into Accident On The Pickup Set

deadline.com: Multiple investigations are taking place into the accident on the Atlanta set of Amazon MGM Studios‘ heist pic The Pickup over the weekend, which left several crew members injured.

The Trouble with Passion

annehelen.substack.com: If you do what you love, the saying goes, you’ll never work a day in your life. …I’ll admit that I had a hard time typing that with a straight face. Was it ever that simple?! In reality, tying something you love doing directly to your financial stability is logistically and emotionally fraught, to say the least.

From Playground to Broadway

News - Carnegie Mellon University: The circus has come to Broadway and the musical team behind it has been clowning around together since their freshman year at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama. But clowning around is serious work for PigPen Theatre Co. This band of storytellers, made up of seven CMU alumni (Alex Falberg, Arya Shahi, Ben Ferguson, Curtis Gillen, Dan Weschler, Matt Nuernberger, and Ryan Melia) has created and produced imaginative musical works that have been performed all over the world.

 

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