NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

How Can Theatre Fandoms Be Less Toxic

OnStage Blog: Let’s get real. Theatre fandoms are some of the most passionate groups you’ll find anywhere. We obsess over every note, every costume detail, every twist and turn in the story. That kind of passion is awesome. But sometimes it goes sideways and turns into straight-up toxicity. When that happens, what should be fun ends up full of drama.

Smithsonian artists and scholars respond to White House list of objectionable art

NPR: The official White House newsletter has posted an article titled "President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian." It calls out some of the institution's artwork, exhibitions, programs and online articles that focus on race, slavery, immigration and sexuality. That includes works at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, The National Portrait Gallery, and The National Museum of the American Latino.

How to Train Your Dragon and Trolls Musicals Are in the Works

Playbill: DreamWorks Theatricals and Music Theatre International's Emerging Writers Program are developing musical versions of DreamWorks animated films How to Train Your Dragon and Trolls. Both titles will come to MTI's Broadway Junior collection, which are all tailored to be performed by actors 18 or younger.

Disney can't get 'Hercules' right — musical doesn't go distance in London

nypost.com: Disney has been hammering away at “Hercules” for eons. And more often than not, the show has toppled over like the Colossus of Rhodes. The Public put on a nice enough production of the 1997 Alan Menken and David Zippel cartoon musical back in 2019 in Central Park, but it was a one-off amusement that included hundreds of members of local community groups. Still, I saw promise in it.

Are Broadway Tickets Too Expensive? Gen Z and Millennials Don’t Think So

Ken Davenport: Last week, I wrote an article on my website: Are Broadway Tickets More Expensive Now? And sure enough, the universe answered with a brand-new study from my friends at No Guarantees Productions, a terrific producing organization that wanted to dig into exactly that.