More than words (and numbers): The 2024 TEA Global Experience Index™

InPark Magazine: It’s that time of year when journalists, industry professionals and park fans are eager to read the latest attractions attendance report. Produced by the Themed Entertainment Association (TEA) with presenting sponsor Storyland Studios, the TEA Global Experience Index (formerly the Theme Index and Museum Index) serves as both a mirror and a map – reflecting where the industry has been and helping to chart where it may be headed.

The play that changed my life: ‘Waiting for Godot revealed that less is more – it made me fearless’

Stage | The Guardian: Until I was 12 I was in the French school system, where theatre was Molière, Corneille, Racine. Going to the theatre meant The Sound of Music or My Fair Lady. Then it was decided I would switch to school in England. So, at 13, I arrived at Westminster school. It was 1968, and the world opened up.

‘Picture This’: Theater Besties Hazel Leroy & Shannon Knapp

onStage Pittsburgh: Hazel Leroy’s life took an unexpected turn in 2013 when she attended a performance by Shannon Knapp’s new theater company. Hazel was a 59-year-old professor and performer who had stepped away from acting for nearly 20 years. Instead of just an evening of theater, Hazel found a path back to performing — and a lifelong friendship.

OpenAI Works With SAG-AFTRA, Agencies on Sora 2 Guardrails After Pressure From Bryan Cranston

TheWrap: After alarm bells rang across Hollywood over misuse of OpenAI’s new video generation software Sora 2, the artificial intelligence company has agreed to work with SAG-AFTRA and top talent agencies to establish guardrails against unauthorized voice and likeness replications.

Get a 1st Look at Beetlejuice's Broadway Return

Playbill: eetlejuice the Musical began its third Broadway engagement, this time at the Palace Theatre, October 8, and Playbill has a new look at the netherworld. The Tim Burton-inspired musical returns to the Main Stem via its first national tour, which is closing after a three-year, 88-city run with a 13-week limited engagement at the Palace, through January 3, 2026.

1923 In Las Vegas Turns Up The Atmosphere With Optimal Audio

ProSoundWeb: Evoking the spirit of a 1920s speakeasy hidden within the surroundings of The Venetian Casino in Las Vegas, the venue 1923 sets the stage for live jazz and soft swing reinforced by an Optimal Audio ecosystem in a project by integrator DesignO’s Emaan.

Shubert Organization and Trafalgar Entertainment Announce Joint Ownership of London's Olympia Theatre

Playbill: The Shubert Organization and Trafalgar Entertainment have announced a 50/50 joint venture partnership for the ownership and operation of the new flagship 1,575-seat Olympia Theatre. The partnership marks the first time in 100 years that The Shubert Organization—owner of 17 Broadway theatres—has directly partnered and invested in London theatres.

Wisycom Deployed In Support Of Arlekin Players Theatre Company In Massachusetts

ProSoundWeb: Needham, Massachusetts-based Arlekin Players Theatre (-ARLEKIN!), founded by noted director Igor Golyak and associated with Boston Conservatory at Berklee, is employing a Pliant Technologies MicroCom XR wireless intercom system in order to effectively communicate throughout its rehearsals and productions.

'Liberation' Opens on Broadway—And Ms. Magazine Is at Its Heart

Ms. Magazine: The feminist revolution has taken center stage. Liberation, written by Bess Wohl and directed by Whitney White, officially opened on Broadway on Oct. 28, 2025, at the James Earl Jones Theatre, following a critically acclaimed Off-Broadway run earlier this year.

Southern Discomfort in ‘Covenant’

AMERICAN THEATRE: York Walker’s Covenant, a play set in a Georgia town in the 1930s, is at last making its way home to the South after premiering at NYC’s Roundabout in 2023 and D.C.’s Theater Alliance in 2024, with nearly concurrent productions at Charleston’s PURE Theatre in its Southeast premiere (which ran Oct. 2-25) and Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre (through Nov. 9). “It was always important to me that the rhythms, relationships, and the world of the play felt authentic,” said the Chicago-born playwright. “To have two Southern productions around the same time is incredibly exciting.”

Physicists Built a Pixel So Small, Full HD Could Fit on a Bread Crumb

gizmodo.com: We’re living in the age of miniaturization. Whether it’s a smartwatch, AR glasses, or the many other gadgets we’ve reviewed here at Gizmodo, tech is getting increasingly smaller. New research takes this to yet another extreme, with researchers developing the smallest pixel ever.

White House Movie Theater Demolished in President Trump Ballroom Build

www.hollywoodreporter.com: The White House family theater, which has held movie screenings for Presidents, their families and other invited guests for decades, is among the structures removed from the East Wing as part of President Trump’s $300 million ballroom project.

Museum Workers Struggle With Low Pay, But Satisfaction Is Rising, Report Finds

news.artnet.com: Current and aspiring art museum workers may want to sign on with smaller institutions, according to one conclusion from a new report by Museums Moving Forward (MMF). Today, the organization releases its 2025 Report on Workplace Equity and Organizational Culture in U.S. Art Museums, a biannual, nationwide study launched in 2023.

Film & Nerdy Fashion Combine for Vogue World: Hollywood Fashion Show

Nerdist: On October 26, Vogue made the Paramount Studios lot in Hollywood literally ooze with glamour and style when they presented the Vogue World 2025 Fashion Show. This show follows Vogue Worlds in New York, London, and Paris. But if you’re going to do one in Los Angeles? It has to celebrate the film industry.

The Demolished White House Theater Where Presidents Watched Movies

After the Final Curtain: When I first photographed historic theaters, I learned that much of their power comes from what we don’t see — the rooms behind the walls, the quiet rituals that make them more than just places to sit and watch a screen. The White House Family Theater was one of those spaces.

The Silent Saboteur: How to Stop Doing "Fake Work" and Start Achieving What Matters

Asian Efficiency: So, what separates real work from fake work? It’s simpler than you might think. Real work is any task that directly contributes to your goals, your priorities, or your organization’s objectives. It’s the stuff that, when completed, genuinely moves the needle forward. Fake work, on the other hand, is anything that doesn’t. It’s non-essential, often busywork, and if you didn’t do it, nobody would really notice… or at least, it wouldn’t have a significant impact on your core objectives.

CBS, MTV, BET hit hardest as Paramount layoffs begin- Fast Company

www.fastcompany.com: The entertainment giant began cutting around 1,000 workers on Wednesday, with twice that many pink slips expected in the days to come. In a memo to staff, new Paramount CEO David Ellison characterized the reductions, which will ultimately shrink the company by 10%, as a necessary step for the company’s long-term growth.

DPA A Key Component In The Toolkit Of Location Sound Mixer La’Ron Cooper

ProSoundWeb: Boston-based location sound mixer La’Ron Cooper, who specializes in film and television sound production, especially within the documentary genre with recent projects including Netflix’s “The Starting Five,” a sports docuseries that follows NBA stars as well as two HBO Max docuseries — “Celtics City,” about the Boston Celtics, and “Big 12: Uncovered,” about the football teams in the NCAA Big 12 Conference, regularly deploys a range of microphones from DPA in his work.

Did Ancient Egyptians Build the Great Pyramid With a Hidden Pulley System?

news.artnet.com: The Great Pyramid of Giza—the largest of Egypt’s pyramids—consists of about 2.3 million limestone blocks. The smallest of these weigh two tons, while the largest weigh over 60. History says laborers built this monumental tomb in 20 years. That means a block got laid every minute. How did they do it? Everyone wants to know.

'Task' Dialect Coach Susanne Sulby on Teaching the Delco Accent

variety.com: Throughout “Task,” the seven-episode crime thriller that concluded on HBO on Oct. 19, viewers were re-introduced to the specific Delaware County, Pa. accent that they’d perhaps first heard in HBO’s 2021 hit “Mare of Easttown,” from creator Brad Ingelsby. On “Mare,” southeastern Pennsylvanians were generally pleased with the way that Kate Winslet, Jean Smart and especially Evan Peters bravely tackled the sounds of the region.

How Artists Are Keeping 'The Lost Art' of Neon Signs Alive

www.404media.co: Next to technicolor neon signs featuring Road Runner, an inspirational phrase that says “everything will be fucking amazing,” and a weed leaf, Geovany Alvarado points to a neon sign he’s particularly proud of: “The Lost and Found Art,” it says.

At Stanford, amara tabor-smith Explores a More Expansive Vision of Dance Education

Dance Magazine: An award-winning performer, choreographer, artistic director, and educator, amara tabor-smith taught at University of California, Berkeley, for more than a decade and, since 2017, has been an artist in residence at Stanford University, designing both courses and productions. “Everything is connected,” says tabor-smith about balancing priorities as a teacher and an artist.

Swarovski’s Masters of Light Exhibition to Open in Hollywood

www.hollywoodreporter.com: The one-of-a-kind immersive activation was designed to spotlight the Austrian crystal brand’s milestone 130 years in business and is the brainchild of Swarovski global creative director Giovanna Engelbert, curated with the help of British fashion journalist and critic Alexander Fury.

The Battle Over Space Shuttle Discovery Keeps Getting Crazier

gizmodo.com: Texas Senators have launched an all-out crusade to break Space Shuttle Discovery into pieces and move it to their state. This iconic spacecraft has been on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., for more than a decade, and the institution isn’t giving it up without a fight.

Mr Squiggle, Blackboard and Gus the Snail: inside the wonderful world of puppet-maker Norman Hetherington

Television & radio | The Guardian: Norman Hetherington’s love of drawing and puppets came together when he created Mr Squiggle, the ‘man from the moon’ with a pencil for a nose. His impatient sidekick was Blackboard: ‘Hurr-ry up!’

Review Roundup: BULL DURHAM at Paper Mill Playhouse

www.broadwayworld.com: Performances are now underway for the new musical Bull Durham now in previews at Paper Mill Playhouse! The production opened on Sunday, October 12 and will continue performances through Sunday, November 2.

Meet Miranda Boodheshwar

CanvasRebel Magazine: My mom is an artist and majored in art therapy when she went to college, and I think that really informed the way she introduced me to the arts. Art was always used as an emotional release. Art was there to bring joy, to blow off steam, but never to make me feel bad.

Do Higher Ah Power Tool Batteries Take Longer To Charge?

www.slashgear.com: So you finally decided to start building a collection of cordless power tools for your home improvement and DIY projects. As you start shopping around, you'll quickly notice that it's not just the tools that come in a variety, but the batteries do too. Power tool batteries are available in different capacities, measured in amp hours or Ah. Most major power tool brands offer anywhere from 1.5Ah to 12Ah.

Why Standing Ovations Have Lost Their Meaning in Theater

onstagepittsburgh.com: I’m a theater-goer from the 20th century, when standing ovations were a rare occurrence. Then, a smattering of claps greeted an overlong or frankly boring effort, and a spontaneous burst of applause graced a production that managed to entertain and even deliver a morsel of truth to chew on, but no one received a standing ovation unless an audience was brought spontaneously to its feet. Now, standing ovations happen at every production that I attend, anywhere, Broadway included. Standing O’s have become meaningless.

Ayo Edebiri and Don Cheadle-Led Revival of Proof Finds Its Broadway Home

Playbill: The previously announced, first-ever New York revival of David Auburn’s Tony- and Pulitzer-winning play Proof, co-starring Emmy winner Ayo Edebiri (The Bear) and Academy Award nominee Don Cheadle (Crash) in their Broadway debuts, has found its Broadway home.

How Many AI Artists Have Debuted on Billboard’s Charts?

www.billboard.com: In just the past few months, at least six AI or AI-assisted artists have debuted on various Billboard rankings. That figure could be higher, as it’s become increasingly difficult to tell who or what is powered by AI — and to what extent. Many of these charting projects, whose music spans every genre from gospel to rock to country, also arrive with anonymous or mysterious origins.

East End Studios is a New Film and TV Production Studio That Just Opened in Queens

www.timeout.com/newyork: East End Studios has cut the ribbon on its massive Sunnyside Campus, a 350,000-square-foot facility in Queens designed to meet the growing demand for production space in New York City. Backed by a $260 million investment, the complex includes four soundstages (totaling 91,000 square feet) along with 125,000 square feet of production offices, support and mill areas.

Delta Millworks partners with Poliigon to bring real wood textures to 3D visualization

www.archpaper.com: Delta Millworks, the award-winning, family-owned manufacturer of architectural-grade wood siding, paneling, and decking, has partnered with Poliigon to introduce a library of photorealistic, high-resolution wood textures for architectural visualization.

Hudson Valley Shakespeare’s Gorgeous New Theater Opens in the Hudson Valley, NY, in 2026

www.timeout.com/newyork: After nearly four decades under a tent, Hudson Valley Shakespeare is getting a home worthy of its magnitude. Opening in summer 2026, the Samuel H. Scripps Theater Center in Garrison, New York, will give the beloved open-air company its first permanent stage—one designed to blend right into the rolling hills above the Hudson River.

5 Spooky Broadway Shows for Halloween

Playbill: A blood-covered Norma Desmond and a bloodied Joe Gillis may have ridden off into the Sunset (Boulevard), but there are still plenty of Broadway productions ready to send chills up audiences' spines during the Halloween season.

Broadway Actors to Receive 3 Percent Pay Increase With New Contract

Playbill: On October 18, following weeks of tense negotiations that also included the threat of a strike, the actors-stage managers union Actors' Equity Association and the Broadway League came to an agreement on the details of a new Broadway work contract. On October 22, details of the new three-year Production Contract were released to Equity's membership, who have until October 30 to vote on whether or not to adopt the new contract.

‘Cats’ Is Returning to Broadway, This Time With Heels Instead of Paws

The New York Times: “Cats,” the loved-and-loathed Andrew Lloyd Webber musical about, well, cats, is returning to Broadway with an all-new taxonomy. The show, originally set in a junkyard and featuring actors padding around in cat costumes, now has human characters who are cats only in the slang sense. This version is set in the underground ballroom scene, a queer subculture built around dance competitions.

Philadelphia Asian Performing Artists presents…

Broad Street Review: Philly Asian Futures, a new multidisciplinary theater project from Philly Asian Performing Artists (PAPA), got its start through listening to local elders. Now, directors Joseph Ahmed, Caitlin Alvarez, and Bi Jean Ngo welcome visitors to a series of choose-your-own-adventure performance installations at Asian Arts Initiative (running October 22-26, 2025). Audiences will move through a selection of nine performances that the artists call a "living museum," including theater, spoken word, dance, music, and tea ceremony.

Bryan Cranston, SAG-AFTRA and Agents Applaud Fixes to Open AI's Sora 2

variety.com: OpenAI appears to have calmed fears around Sora 2, winning over SAG-AFTRA, CAA, UTA and actor Bryan Cranston with new guardrails on the platform to protect actors’ voices and likenesses. Cranston was among those who raised concerns when the initial launch of the AI video platform allowed users to create his image without his permission.

5 Of The Highest-Rated Icon Hand Tools You Can Buy At Harbor Freight

www.slashgear.com: There are hundreds of high-quality tools available at Harbor Freight that you can add to your toolbox, and there are a handful that you're better off avoiding. Not only are they high-quality, but they are also distinct and different to fulfil a variety of needs, such as products small enough to fit on your keychain.

Did Hollyland Just Kill Traditional Camera Monitors With Its New Vcore Smartphone System?

No Film School: Promising to be more than just a regular on-camera monitor that serves as a base video transmission system, the new Hollyland Vcore is aiming to be a new style of creative companion. Intending to keep you in perfect sync with your creative vision while streamlining and simplifying all parts of your project’s production, Vcore is here to possibly usher in a new era of smartphone on-camera monitoring tools.

Art installations arrive to Utah’s “skiable outdoor art museum”

www.archpaper.com: Across the white, snow-covered slope of Eden, Utah’s, Powder Mountain, eight small fires flicker to life, a stack of boulders leans sideways, and a chairlift becomes a work of contemporary art. These works by Nancy Holt, Nobuo Sekine, and E.J. Hill were installed as part of the first phase of the Powder Art Foundation’s plan to turn the Utah ski resort into a year-round outdoor art museum.

Wenger Corporation Expands Performance Solutions with Acquisition of Texas Scenic Company

The AI Journal: Wenger Corporation’s acquisition of Texas Scenic brings together two leaders in performance solutions, uniting Wenger’s expertise in performance equipment with Texas Scenic’s strengths in stage systems and theatrical infrastructure. This strategic move delivers significant benefits to customers of both companies, offering expanded resources, enhanced support, greater capacity for innovation, and integrated engineering expertise.

Worker in critical condition after falling 50 feet from Acrisure Stadium scoreboard

WPXI: A man is in critical condition after falling 50 feet from the main scoreboard at Acrisure Stadium. This happened Saturday around 10 p.m., following the end of the Pitt game, while crews were setting up for Sunday Night Football. It was a precarious rescue. Pittsburgh EMS stabilized the victim and used a pulley system and basket to lower him to safety before he was rushed to Allegheny General Hospital in critical condition.

America Ferrera Calls on Hollywood to Find Courage in Political Moment

www.hollywoodreporter.com: The Critics Choice Association held its 5th annual Celebration of Latino Cinema & Television in L.A. on Friday, coming at a particularly fraught time for a community that is being specifically targeted by the Trump administration.

HAMILTON and Ron Chernow Receive National Constitution Center's 37th Annual Liberty Medal

www.broadwayworld.com: The National Constitution Center hosted its 2025 Liberty Medal ceremony on Friday evening, honoring Hamilton and historian Ron Chernow, whose Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Alexander Hamilton inspired the landmark musical that continues to shape how Americans connect with the nation’s founding story.

These Harbor Freight Parrot Nose Pliers Are A Knipex Alternative — What To Know Before You Buy

www.slashgear.com: For mechanics, DIYers, and anybody else looking for a cheaper alternative to Knipex's famed Raptor Pliers, Harbor Freight's ICON brand has 10-inch Multi Slip-Joint Parrot Nose Pliers that might be worth a shot. Priced at $21.99 and available in-store only, the ICON model gives you many of the same core features as the Knipex 10-inch Raptor Pliers – but at a pretty nice discount.

Beth Leavel Will Receive Sarah Siddons Society Award

Playbill: Chicago's Sarah Siddons Society, which funds college scholarships for young theatre artists, will present its annual Sarah Siddons Society Award to Broadway favorite Beth Leavel. The honor, given in honor of Level's outstanding artistic achievement in theatre, will be bestowed at the Society's 2025 benefit, planned for November 17 in Chicago.

How David Henry Hwang Remade Theater in His Own Image

The New York Times: ACT I OF David Henry Hwang’s working day begins with no foreshadowing of the characters or the noise, the drama and the plot twists that may await him. Morning. Any weekday. The ground floor of a brownstone in the leafy, arty Brooklyn enclave known to its residents as Fort Greene. Hwang shares this home with the actress Kathryn Layng, his wife of more than 30 years; they have a grown son, Noah, and daughter, Eva, and a small, intermittently indignant dog, Dumpling.

How Deep Can A Ryobi Circular Saw Cut? Here's What You Need To Know

www.slashgear.com: yobi offers a number of power tools made for cutting a variety of materials. The company's line of circular saws are designed primarily to deliver straight-line cuts in wood products such as dimensional lumber, plywood, oriented strand board (OSB), and the like. Ryobi circular saws can cut through metal, although it's best to use a special saw blade and only cut through thin sheets or softer metal types.