NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

Broadway Could Face a Strike This Fall. Here’s What to Know.

The New York Times: Broadway is facing a possible strike this fall as two of its major labor unions — the one representing actors and stage managers and the one representing musicians — are simultaneously in negotiations for new contracts with the industry’s commercial producers.

Andrew Lloyd Webber Reimagines ‘Phantom of the Opera’ With ‘Masquerade’

The New York Times: Andrew Lloyd Webber is still unhappy that “The Phantom of the Opera” is no longer on Broadway. “Ludicrous,” he calls it. But the composer, one of the most successful in the history of musical theater, is moving on. That is why, on a recent Friday, he strode up a busy street in Midtown Manhattan and donned a lacy black mask before slipping through the doors of a former art shop that now houses a new version of “Phantom” called “Masquerade.”

Look at the Gorgeous Practical Miniatures Guillermo del Toro Used on 'Frankenstein'

gizmodo.com: We’re two weeks away from finally getting to see the film Guillermo del Toro was born to make, Frankenstein. It hits theaters on October 17 before its November 7 drop on Netflix, and the Oscar-winning director just shared some really beautiful behind-the-scenes photos.

The 23 Home Improvement Best Tools You Can Buy on Amazon

www.esquire.com: You put on your Carhartts and lug-sole boots and all all of a sudden you're staring at a cabinet pull that you've always detested or a light fixture that your landlord steadfastly refuses to swap thinking, I can do this myself.

Judge Rejects Drake's Defamation + Harassment Lawsuit Over Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" Diss Track

reason.com: This case arises from perhaps the most infamous rap battle in the genre's history, the vitriolic war of words that erupted between superstar recording artists Aubrey Drake Graham ("Drake") and Kendrick Lamar Duckworth ("Lamar" or "Kendrick Lamar") in the spring of 2024. Over the course of 16 days, the two artists released eight so-called "diss tracks," with increasingly heated rhetoric, loaded accusations, and violent imagery.