Alvin Ailey Women Are Keeping the Ballet Alive

www.theroot.com: On a recent rainy night in New York City’s Chelsea neighborhood, The Joyce Theater filled for the final performance of Ailey II’s critically acclaimed, sold-out run. Dancers took the stage carrying forward a legacy shaped by Alvin Ailey’s commitment to centering Black women.

Your March and April Spring Theater Roundup in Pittsburgh

Table Magazine: Spring is an excellent time to spend at the theaters around Pittsburgh. It’s not always warm enough for outdoor pursuits — but the snow is (hopefully) off the sidewalks for good, inviting you out for a night on the town. Here are seven great reasons to buy a ticket this March and April.

The conflict in the Middle East will not stop Disney's Abu Dhabi theme park

Sound & Video Contractor: The ongoing war involving the United States, Israel, and Iran have raised questions about the feasibility of Disney working on development of its upcoming park in Abu Dhabi. However, there are indications that the project on Abu Dhabi’s Yas Island is not being shelved, despite the current Middle East conflict.

WATCH: Researchers develop method for clear projection mapping in bright environments

Sound & Video Contractor: Projection mapping applications typically take place either outdoors at night, or in very dim environments. This is because any ambient light washes out the projection, an issue that researchers have tackled with the addition of an illumination device that combines an LED panel with a lens array.

OpenAI Shutting Down Sora Video App

www.hollywoodreporter.com: “We’re saying goodbye to Sora. To everyone who created with Sora, shared it, and built community around it: thank you,” the company said in a statement. “What you made with Sora mattered, and we know this news is disappointing. We’ll share more soon, including timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work.”

Survivor Challenge Mastermind on Dream Team, 50 Seasons of Challenges

www.hollywoodreporter.com: While Jeff Probst may be the face of Survivor, one of the people most responsible for what viewers see onscreen has spent 50 seasons behind the scenes. John Kirhoffer has been with the show since inception as a co-executive producer, overseeing the iconic challenges that have become one of the series’ most defining and enduring elements.

Broadway Women's Fund Announces 2026's Women to Watch on Broadway; Full List

www.broadwayworld.com: The Broadway Women's Fund revealed its 2026 Women to Watch on Broadway list, the seventh list from the fund spotlighting women in leadership in theater.

Production costs double in a decade as theatres brace for deficits – report

www.thestage.co.uk: Production costs have doubled in 10 years, according to a report that also warns that more than 50% of subsidised theatre organisations are expecting to run at a deficit

Q&A: How Expandido Arts Collective is reimagining the Medea myth

Intermission Magazine: Following their 2023 Toronto production of The Rage of Narcissus, the Expandido Arts Collective is staging Brazilian playwright Grace Passô’s contemporary Medea adaptation Kill Your Father. Originally written in Portuguese as Mata Teu Pai, Passô’s play reimagines the myth of Medea through a contemporary feminist lens. Translated and adapted by Marcio Beauclair and Matthew Romantini, Kill Your Father introduces the Brazilian play to new audiences.

On the Hunt for 24 Hours of Drag in N.Y.C.

The New York Times: How much drag can I see in 24 hours? That’s the screwball mission I embarked on in early March. I had options galore: An ax-throwing class. A party bus. John Cameron Mitchell in “Oh, Mary!” A 25-person drag dinner for $800.

1+1+1: Three Things That Every Mix Shares

ProSoundWeb: There are a lot of ways to build a great front of house mix. And there’s a lot of information out there about best practices when it comes to routing, EQs, dynamics, FX, and everything in between. But when it comes to my approach to mixing, there’s something that’s often overlooked and much more fundamental than any of the minutiae of mixing.

Marketing Execs Tout Hollywood's Embrace of Brand Integration

www.thewrap.com: Hollywood’s leading marketing executives praised the shifting tides around product placement and advertising in film and television, as the creative community embraces brand collaborations to offset industrywide cost-cutting.

You've Got Mail Order—How the TDF Costume Collection Ships Rentals Across the Country

TDF: As emerging costume designers, Ariel Kregal and Gabe Bagdazian had been running into each other for years. So she wasn’t that surprised when she walked into the TDF Costume Collection in spring 2024 to rent some items and spotted Bagdazian, who had recently been hired as an In-House Designer.

DeWalt’s Cordless Work Light Tested: Power, Runtime, Value

www.popularmechanics.com: Spend six decades on this earth and there are things that become exponentially intolerable with each passing year—like the guy at my local bagel shop who just can’t seem to cut my Taylor ham, egg, and cheese sandwich all the way through (bro, you had one job).

Logan Square Neighbor's Puppet Web Series A 'Kid Show For Adults'

blockclubchicago.org: Spoon, Scribbles and Grandpa have been tasked with teaching aliens about Earth. The puppets are characters in Logan Ludwig’s web series “For Alien Eyes Only,” a puppet comedy show about a package of VHS tapes and a television sent into space in hopes that other life forms would find them and learn about Earth. The web series releases episodes about once per month, with five out so far.

Do Grades Make Sense In The AI Era?

Tech & Learning: I’ve always been uncomfortable with the grading part of being a professor. As a student, I loved learning, particularly writing, but dreaded the judgment of an instructor and the harsh disapproval of their red pen. When I started teaching, grading was my least favorite part of the job. I’d obsess over minor discrepancies and second-guess myself constantly.

Las Vegas special effects designer Eva Jacqueline on transforming the surreal into the tangible

Las Vegas Weekly: Turning ideas, dreams and fantasies into physical form is not for the timid or faint of heart. It requires a particular strain of creative audacity, the kind that thrives in the space between art and illusion. Las Vegas artist Eva Jacqueline knows this terrain well. Through a constant evolving blend of technical skill and artistic instinct, she helps craft hyperrealistic creations that unsettle, fascinate and captivate global spectators in equal measure.

Logical Methodology: Putting Together A Foolproof Festival Patch

ProSoundWeb: When I was coming up through the ranks at a sound company in the early 1980s, I did a lot of folk festivals. Within a few years I went from mixing a small satellite stage (with monitors from front of house) to main stage monitor mixer and then to main stage front of house mixer.

Meyer Sound introduces TIGRA Line Array and 1800-LFC Subwoofer

LightSoundJournal.com: Meyer Sound is expanding its next generation of self-powered professional loudspeakers with the introduction of the TIGRA™ line array loudspeaker and the 1800-LFC™ low-frequency control element. Together they bring tour-class performance, GEN-1 intelligent onboard signal processing, Milan connectivity, and broad deployment flexibility into compact form factors—making big-system capabilities accessible for a greater range of productions and venues.

In ‘White Rooster,’ playwright Matthew Yee summons the ghosts of his Chinese ancestors

Chicago Sun-Times: uring tech week for the world premiere of “White Rooster” at Lookingglass Theatre, crew members bustled about attempting to solve last-minute issues. Onstage a group of actors who looked like dusty prospectors from the Old West gathered around a massive wooden set piece. A woman in clean denim played an electric guitar. That guitarist, actor Sunnie Eraso, appeared in stark contrast from everything else.

World’s fair update – March 2026

InPark Magazine: For over 150 years, world’s fairs were where the future made its debut. The Eiffel Tower rose for Paris 1889. The television age began at New York 1939. Touchscreens appeared at Knoxville 1982. These events were once the world’s most ambitious stage for national identity, technological optimism, and architectural spectacle.

Pedicabs in UK Banned From Playing Music, Ending Disruption to West End Theatres

www.broadwayworld.com: New regulations on pedicabs are being implemented in the UK, in what is being seen as a win for West End theatres. Transport for London introduced the new regulations last month, which include a ban on music or any loud external audio being played from the vehicles.

From Faster Tools to Fewer Steps: How AI Is Reframing Productivity in Architectural Practice

Architect Magazine: Architectural workflows are filled with translation layers: sketches rebuilt into models, models exported for visualization, and visuals revised to reflect design changes. Each step introduces friction and creates opportunities for errors or loss of design intent.

Awards Season and the Management of Cultural Power

hyperallergic.com: Award season now arrives less as a sequence of events than as a continuous atmosphere. Announcements blur into ceremonies, ceremonies into press cycles, press cycles into speculation about the next stage. The art world has begun to mirror this rhythm, producing its own awards, its own stages, its own moments of recognition that appear to consolidate value and, more importantly, authority in real time.

Framing a new Butterfly

Chicago Reader: The curtain rises on a sleekly contemporary apartment with décor that includes the muscular back of a woman warrior against a red rising sun. A man in a T-shirt and sweatpants lumbers in and opens his fridge. The first sound that penetrates the silence is the pshhht of a soda can opening. He slips a VR headset over his eyes and slumps in a recliner—and Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, with libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica after a play by David Belasco, reimagined by director Matthew Ozawa and co-commissioned by Cincinnati Opera, Detroit Opera, Pittsburgh Opera, and Utah Opera, begins.

Gatz review – the Great Gatsby performed in eight and a half hours of attentive, immersive joy

Adelaide festival | The Guardian: A man enters his office in the morning, finds his computer on the fritz and, after a few attempts to turn it on and off again, comes across a copy of F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel The Great Gatsby. So he starts to read and when his colleagues enter they find themselves taking on the characters, and soon the novel unfolds around us, word by word. The New York theatre company Elevator Repair Service has produced a work that is not quite adaptation – given it doesn’t really adapt the novel at all – but that is utterly transfixing nonetheless.

Photos: Go Inside the 3rd Annual Black Theatre Coalition Gala

Playbill: Get an inside look at the 3rd annual Black Theatre Coalition gala honoring Taraji P. Henson, Thomas Schumacher, Susan Fales-Hill, and Jessica Matten/Indigenous Film Academy. Held March 9 at the Rainbow Room in Manhattan, the "Building the Change" gala celebrated entertainment professionals working in theatre, film, television, cultural institutions, and music.

Pokemon Go Had Players Capturing More Than They Realized

Hackaday: Released in 2016, Pokemon Go quickly became a worldwide phenomenon. Even folks who weren’t traditionally interested in the monster-taming franchise were wandering around with their smartphones out, on the hunt for virtual creatures that would appear via augmented reality. Although the number of active users has dropped over the years, it’s estimated that more than 50 million users currently log in and play every month.

Every Type of Plastic Used By LEGO

BrickNerd - All things LEGO and the LEGO fan community: Back in 2022, I wrote an overview of the materials that LEGO uses in their products. Though I’m not a materials expert by any means, I do enjoy researching and discussing LEGO minutiae, and in the years since that article was published, I have found a few more historic sources for materials used, made some corrections, and been pointed towards other resources by like-minded fans.

A Pittsburgh Fashion Scene Icon is Curating His Final Show

Pittsburgh Magazine: A beloved icon of the Pittsburgh fashion scene will be hanging up his hat at the end of March. Richard Parsakian, owner of Eons Fashion Antique in Shadyside, and a longtime fashion curator for events at Pittsburgh Opera, the Andy Warhol Museum and Metropol nightclub, announced this week that Pittsburgh Opera’s annual fashion show will be his last after 45 years of event work.

Oscars 2026 First Look: This Year, the Stage Is a “Sanctuary of Celebration”

Vanity Fair: The Academy Awards is Hollywood’s biggest night on its biggest stage—and this year, that stage is an especially zen space. Each year, production designers Misty Buckley and Alana Billingsley reimagine the stage at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre. Some years it’s grandiose and bold; other years it harkens back to the golden era of Hollywood. But it’s never been as green as it is this year.

From historical research to digital worlds, Oscar costume designers share insight at ‘Sketch to Screen’

UCLA: Costume designers don’t just dress characters — they help create the people audiences see on screen. That idea was front and center Saturday when the five nominees for this year’s Academy Award for best costume design gathered in Hollywood for the 16th annual “Sketch to Screen” panel presented by the UCLA David C. Copley Center for Costume Design at the UCLA School of Theater, Film & Television.

Half of Americans Went to a Movie Theater During the Year, Study Finds

variety.com: With the Academy Awards approaching to celebrate the year’s best films, a new survey offered a reality check about moviegoing: Just over half of Americans say they set foot in a movie theater over the course of a year.

Experience the Unique Chaos of Quantum Theatre's 10 Out of 12

onstagepittsburgh.com: The controlled chaos of 10 Out of 12 piles on challenges that could make a director wild with worry. So why is Andrew William Smith smiling? Smith sees purpose in every cue perpetrated by playwright Ann Washburn (the postapocalyptic Mr. Burns). The title, 10 Out of 12, refers to the hours Actors’ Equity Association allows for one day in the technical process of building a show — in this case, the show is within the show about who does what: performers, stage manager, designer, etc. The twist: The audience is privy to everything all at once.

Why Are We Obsessed With Antigone?

The New York Times: Antigone, an ancient Greek play, is being adapted in several theaters across New York City. Our critic Helen Shaw explains why Sophocles’s anti-heroine is such a relevant figure today.

5 Cheap Harbor Freight Alternatives To Expensive Milwaukee Products

www.slashgear.com: If you want professional-grade power tools, you're going to have to pay a premium price. At least, that's how it goes with many of the top power tool brands. And of that bunch, few brands come with higher prices than Milwaukee. The brand certainly has its fans, but there's no way around it: Milwaukee leverages its good reputation to justify charging high-end prices for its power tools.

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Solo theatergoers are on the rise — and theaters want more of them

NPR: Nearly 20% of Broadway theater tickets are now being purchased by solo attendees — double the rate from just a couple of years ago, according to audience data for the 2024-25 season from the Broadway League. One major theater company is taking action.

Barack and Michelle Obama announce joint career move as Broadway producers

The Independent: The former U.S. president and first lady announced that their media company Higher Ground will be working on the Broadway revival of Proof, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Auburn that centers on the daughter of a math professor who finds a notebook containing revelatory mathematical findings after his death.

AI-Generated 'Actor' Tilly Norwood Drops a Music Video Ahead of the Oscars. It Sucks

gizmodo.com: Tilly Norwood, the ultimate industry plant, has been dubbed “the world’s first AI actor” by the people who created her. She is still yet to appear in a single film or TV show, but she has a new music video out that is loosely tied to the Oscars and is letting people know that AI is great, actually—a thing that it seems like you wouldn’t have to insist upon if AI were so great.

Why Oscars season in Trumpworld makes us so mad

Salon.com: Chalamet’s words were curt, but his opinion was only further muddled by the clip being spread out of context. Chalamet, who has multiple family members who have performed in the New York City Ballet, was attempting to make a point about the accessibility of his art. He wants his work to be seen by the largest number of people possible for the price of a movie ticket, instead of having his efforts hidden behind the barrier of entry that comes with the higher cost of seeing opera or ballet.

How costume designers, Hollywood’s behind-the-scenes players, are becoming the new fashion influencers

www.afr.com: There's a scene in Barbie when the titular character, played by Margot Robbie, approaches an elderly woman at a bus stop and coos, “You’re so beautiful”. The woman replies, matter-of-fact, “I know it”. That woman wasn’t an actor; it was costume designer Ann Roth, whose bona fides include Working Girl, The English Patient and The Talented Mr Ripley.

 

Multiple Destinations: Three Common Problems With Livestreaming From The FOH Console & How To Solve Them

ProSoundWeb: Thanks to the recent industry “pivot” towards livestreaming, I’ve seen a lot of forum posts, received a lot of phone calls, and talked to a lot of colleagues – mostly in house of worship audio – about how to achieve a successful livestream mix from front of house. Most of them boil down to three main issues, discussed here with my suggested approach for addressing each.

The Surprising Truth About I-Joists

Builder Magazine: If you’re considering a new floor plan on your next project or looking to modify the layout you use, you have some structural decisions to make. That starts with a choice of a floor system: Should you go with dimensional lumber, open web trusses, or I-joists?

The Quad Console: Reconstructing The Desk For Pink Floyd's "Live at Pompeii" Performance In 1971

ProSoundWeb: It’s October 1971, and the Pink Floyd sound crew is setting up for the filming of “Live at Pompeii” in an ancient Roman amphitheater, having driven the equipment by road for three days from the UK. Pride of place is a new Allen & Heath 28-into-6 “Quad” mixer, the brainchild of maverick Floyd road manager Peter Watts.

AI-Generated 'Actor' Tilly Norwood Drops a Music Video Ahead of the Oscars. It Sucks

gizmodo.com: Tilly Norwood, the ultimate industry plant, has been dubbed “the world’s first AI actor” by the people who created her. She is still yet to appear in a single film or TV show, but she has a new music video out that is loosely tied to the Oscars and is letting people know that AI is great, actually—a thing that it seems like you wouldn’t have to insist upon if AI were so great.

Five Wide Format Products With Strong Profit Margins

Sign Builder Illustrated, The How-To Sign Industry Magazine: Walk into almost any sign shop today and you will find a wide format printer working away somewhere in the production area. For many shops it’s the backbone of daily work. Banners, yard signs, decals and posters keep the printer busy and the schedule full.

Avoiding cable rework by constructing a cable blueprint

Control Design: Many integrators seem to think that, if construction drawings show the number of connections, a cable and conduit schedule may be introduced later for the completion of an automation construction job. This causes inaccuracies and headaches. A well-thought-out construction plan will drive costs down.

Motion Capture Workers at 2K Studio Ratify First Union Contract

www.hollywoodreporter.com: Workers at 2K’s motion capture studio in Petaluma, CA have unanimously ratified a deal with management at parent company Take-Two Interactive, IATSE announced on Tuesday. The crew union represents stage technicians, engineers, animators and recording and audio specialists at the studio.

2K Motion Capture Workers in Petaluma Unanimously Ratify Historic First Union Contract

IATSE: Workers at 2K’s motion capture studio in Petaluma, California have reached and unanimously ratified their first union contract with Take-Two Interactive management, marking a historic first for motion capture video game workers in the United States. This agreement is the result of these workers’ initial vote to unionize in November 2024.

Work Pants Made to Outlive Your Working Life

Journal of Light Construction: 1620 Workwear in Massachusetts is one of the hidden gems of the construction industry. While I could begin by talking about how comfortable and durable the company’s pants are, I’d like to start with its warranty. The company backs its gear with a lifetime warranty.

ROUNDABOUT WILL TRANSPLANT 'THE HEART'

by Philip Boroff: The Heart is scheduled to open Off-Broadway at the nonprofit company’s Laura Pels Theatre at the end of October, according to a person familiar with the production. If the tryout on West 46th Street is well-received, the next stop is Broadway, where it would be among the first Broadway musicals dominated by electronic dance music (EDM).

Solo theatergoers are on the rise — and theaters want more of them

NPR: Nearly 20% of Broadway theater tickets are now being purchased by solo attendees — double the rate from just a couple of years ago, according to audience data for the 2024-25 season from the Broadway League. One major theater company is taking action.

Barack and Michelle Obama announce joint career move as Broadway producers

The Independent: The former U.S. president and first lady announced that their media company Higher Ground will be working on the Broadway revival of Proof, the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by David Auburn that centers on the daughter of a math professor who finds a notebook containing revelatory mathematical findings after his death.

How costume designers, Hollywood’s behind-the-scenes players, are becoming the new fashion influencers

www.afr.com: There's a scene in Barbie when the titular character, played by Margot Robbie, approaches an elderly woman at a bus stop and coos, “You’re so beautiful”. The woman replies, matter-of-fact, “I know it”. That woman wasn’t an actor; it was costume designer Ann Roth, whose bona fides include Working Girl, The English Patient and The Talented Mr Ripley.

Get Custom CNC Milled Parts in Your Hands in Just Four Days

Modern Applications News – Metalworking Ideas For Today's Job Shop: MISUMI Group's meviy is rewriting the "lead time" timeline with a major upgrade to its Expedite+ service, slashing CNC milling delivery to as few as four days. For engineers and job shops facing last-minute design shifts or broken production lines, this level of speed is a massive competitive advantage.

Guiding Light: White Light Celebrates The Career Of Technical Director Dave Isherwood

Live Design Online: White Light (WL) today announces the retirement of Technical Director Dave Isherwood, marking the culmination of a remarkable 37‑year career that has helped define the company’s technical direction, culture and operational excellence.

▶️ Super Bowl LX Halftime Show: In The Shop With All Access

Live Design Online: Joey Brennan, Halftime Staging Supervisor for All Access Staging takes us into the shop for a deep dive into the sets for the Apple Music Super Bowl LX Halftime Show, with production design spearheaded by Bruce Rogers of Tribe Inc.

Fed Up With High Costs, American Theater Takes a Trip to London

The New York Times: In a ramshackle onetime warehouse on the south side of London, with a leaky pitched roof, a shabby chic bar, and posters of shows gone by, a group of Americans gathered this winter to make a musical about a famous American writer.

Why do e-stops, safety controllers and sensors require planning and coordination?

Control Design: The space shuttle had three computers and needed a two-of-three voting system to determine if a sensed variable was real or phantom. This would be a good thing regarding a leaking door seal on the capsule. Safety sensing isn’t a new technology, but it seems that understanding what a safety system function is might be lacking a bit.

Manchester City plans immersive venue next to stadium

AV Magazine: Manchester City Football Club has submitted a planning application to Manchester City Council for a new immersive event venue at the Etihad Campus. The venue, which will be next to the UK’s largest indoor music arena, Co-op Live, will host the immersive theatrical dining experience Mamma Mia! The Party.

Versatile Variations: An Approach To Downscaling To A Smaller Console Format

ProSoundWeb: I recently did a very compact gig with one of my regular bands that usually plays the largest format shows. This wasn’t going from 40 production semi-trailers to four, as we have for festivals in the past, where I can keep the same control package – this was scaling down to a small van carrying eight flight-cases for an exclusive performance in a small space. There was a limited footprint for my equipment, and my usual set-up was neither appropriate nor necessary.

Lightroom to host animated Aardman immersive experience

AV Magazine: An immersive experience marking the 50th anniversary of Aardman studio will open at London’s Lightroom this autumn. Larger Than Life: Starring Wallace & Gromit, Shaun and More will invite audiences to step directly into the anarchic, joyful worlds of characters such as Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep and Morph.