NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

AI Slips In Where Hollywood Is Weakest

www.forbes.com: Hollywood fears AI might threaten prestige films and award-season scripts. The first real shift is happening somewhere else. The fastest-growing category in filmed entertainment is the one-minute vertical soap opera, the micro-drama. Viewers enter these stories the way they enter social feeds, without intention or commitment.

The Composer Making a Hip-Hop Musical About Anne Frank

The New Yorker: A few years ago, Andrew Fox was struck by a transcendently bad idea. He would turn the story of Anne Frank into a satirical hip-hop musical: intersectional, inclusive, and inane. Fox was a theatre-loving composer who had grown dispirited by the industry in general, and by humorless and preachy productions in particular.

Experience: I was stabbed in the back with a real knife while performing Julius Caesar

Life and style | The Guardian: As someone committed to my craft, I’ve always believed that the show must go on. An accident in my second year of university took it to new extremes. It was the Exeter University theatre society’s annual play at the Edinburgh fringe and I’d landed the part of Cassius in Julius Caesar.

RSC to cut workforce by 11% as it faces ‘perilous situation’

Royal Shakespeare Company | The Guardian: The Royal Shakespeare Company has defended plans to reduce its workforce by 11% and merge its costume departments by saying the proposal will ensure it is “match fit” as it faces a “perilous situation”. Daniel Evans, the RSC’s joint artistic director, told the Guardian the reduction in staff numbers could save £2.8m a year, as the organisation attempts to address a shortfall thought to be between £5m and £6m.

Equity Threatens U.K. Actors Strike Over AI

variety.com: U.K. performers union Equity is set to ballot members over potential strike action related to AI protections. Negotiating partner Pact, the U.K. producers union, has been notified. “Nobody wants further instability in our industries ahead of what we hope will be a positive year in 2026,”