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Monday, October 21, 2024

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Disney inventor offers a new hope for retractable lightsaber replica

Sound & Video Contractor: We were excited when Disney filed a patent for a realistic, automatically retracting lightsaber replica in 2021, and even more when a teaser video was dropped promising that they would be made available at the (ill-fated) Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser hotel. Nothing ever materialized, but a new hope has arrived in the form of a comment made by the replica’s lead inventor, Lanny Smoot.

How Sondheim Can Change Your Life

New York Theater: Schoch, a long-time drama professor, one-time theater director and ardent Sondheim aficionado, extrapolates the life lesson he contends is central to each of a dozen Sondheim musicals. (See chapter titles below.) One need not accept the novel premise to benefit from this scholar’s erudition, insights and enthusiasms.

How To Become One Of The Most Produced Plays Next Year

Ken Davenport: Every year, I look forward to American Theatre’s Top 10 List of Most Produced Plays. And the list did not disappoint this year. While I usually share the list in my newsletter, this year I wanted to do a bit of a deeper dive . . . into WHY these plays made the list.

What Winter Work Hazards Do I Need to Be Worried About?

Occupational Health & Safety: Winter is coming. For employers, this, of course, means colder temperatures and more slippery surfaces facing their workers. However, the safety hazards are much more dynamic than that. These new conditions can create complexities and challenges that put the worker at higher risk of injury and worse.

Horror play to open on Halloween in historic Congressional Cemetery

DC Theater Arts: Bob Bartlett, Maryland-based playwright and longtime professor of theater at Bowie State University, is no stranger to staging his work in unusual locations. A few years ago, he premiered his time-bending romantic comedy, The Accident Bear, which sold out its five- week run to critical acclaim, at a working coin-operated laundromat in historic downtown Annapolis, Maryland.

 

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