NFTRW Weekly Top Five

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

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.