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Wednesday, April 01, 2026

South Africa's Market Theatre hits 50

NPR : When it first started in the 1970s, South Africa's Market Theatre staged plays considered to be so subversive that it became a reg...

Here's What You Can Expect With the Burning Man Temple 2026

mymodernmet.com : The legendary Burning Man is a temporary city that is reconstructed, in differing forms, year after year. Artists and arch...

To speak out or not to speak out?: Claudio Tolcachir directs “Mejor no decirlo/You Shouldn’t Have Said So” at Barcelona’s Teatre Goya

The Theatre Times : What does it mean to be honest with your partner? This is the premise that governs Salomé Lelouch’s entertaining two-han...

The Oscar Wilde Awards

The Knockturnal : The US-Ireland Alliance celebrated its 20th Oscar Wilde Awards honoring Domhnall Gleeson, Maura Tierney, and Lee Cronin la...

Are Chicago’s theater awards broken? The Jeffs face growing backlash

WBEZ Chicago : A week after “boos” rained down in a ceremony honoring some of Chicago’s top storefront theater companies, the Joseph Jeffers...

In Jesa, Jeena Yi Wrote the Asian American Family Drama She Always Wanted to Be In

Playbill : Who doesn’t love an American family drama? A family, sitting in their living room, fighting and rediscovering each other is the b...

In Conversation With Hanna Puley, The Costume Designer Behind 'Heated Rivalry'

elle.in/fashion : If you haven’t stumbled upon the HeatedRivalry frenzy over the past few months, you must be living under a rock, or, at th...

Smooth Operations: Successful Transitions Are The Key To Effective Worship Services

ProSoundWeb : There’s a moment every Sunday (sometimes several) where the entire experience hinges on what happens between the “big” element...

Drama Desk Awards names Tom Schumacher as 2026 Harold S. Prince Award honoree

www.broadwaynews.com : The 2026 Drama Desk Awards will honor former Disney Theatrical Group president Tom Schumacher with the Harold S. Prin...

Asia’s biggest indoor transparent LED screen boosts mall

AV Magazine : Asia’s largest indoor transparent LED screen is now operating at the CentralWorld mega-mall in central Bangkok, Thailand. The...

Michael Arden and Douglas Lyons to Develop Happy Feet Stage Musical

Playbill : Put on your best penguin outfit because Happy Feet is headed to the stage. Warner Bros. has announced that its 2006 animated musi...

The Unpredictable Issue Facing Universal After ‘Harry Potter’ Reboot

disneytips.com : Universal has spent years gradually expanding its Wizarding World. But with a full-scale Harry Potter reboot now in motion,...

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Embracing Universal Memory

howlround.com : I began working in theatre in my twentieth year, at the start of the 1990s, at the National University of Rwanda. The cou...

How the Forbidden Fruits Costume Designer Conjured Up the Outfits of a Mall Baddie Coven

Coveteur : There's a specific alchemy when a group of women comes together in a close, intimate friendship. It can be the most transf...

“Thrice welcome”: The power of three in As You Like It

Folger Shakespeare Library : We all know that Shakespeare loved twins, but less talked about is how much he adored triplets. From the thr...

The Bride!: Mark Russell – Production VFX Supervisor

The Art of VFX : I was contacted by the producers of the film as they were beginning to assemble the creative team to meet with Maggie. I...

You Can Now Explore Over 100 Objects From the Met in 3D

mymodernmet.com : As part of its Open Access initiative, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has published more than 100 high-defi...

Trump Takes Aim at the Kennedy Center—Architects Launch Legal Revolt

Architect Magazine : In Washington, D.C., where monuments are typically treated as untouchable symbols of national continuity, a legal ba...

‘Arcadia’ brings everything to the stage, from mystery, passion, time travel to science

The NATRAT : How do you discuss every idea in the universe within three hours? The late playwright Tom Stoppard tried to answer this in h...

‘Death of a Salesman’ on Broadway Has Help From Something Old

The New York Times : When the director Joe Mantello began working on his new production of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman,” now in ...

Reflecting on 5 Years of Lightapalooza

Residential Systems : Five years ago, I signed a contract with the Hilton Anatole in Dallas to host a conference that didn’t exist yet. T...

Theater Tickets Are Cheaper in London Than New York. What Gives?

The New York Times : The hottest celebrity on the London stage is a four-foot-tall bear with a fondness for marmalade. Tickets to “Paddin...

How HMIs and embedded systems are redefining the industrial PC

Control Design : I’ve been in this business for a little shy of 40 years, and I’ve encountered a lot of different hardware and applicatio...

For a High Priestess of Extreme Theater, Death Is Gentler Than Life

The New York Times : The Spanish theater-maker Angélica Liddell has taken her obsession with death to some disturbing extremes. Since the...

Monday, March 30, 2026

Knowing the ins and outs of plasma tube cutting

www.thefabricator.com : Can using plasma to cut your tube and pipe be a better option for your operation than a saw or laser? Quite possi...

Jeff Mahshie Creates Costumes for Fallen Angels on Broadway

CFDA : Jeff Mahshie is well-versed in fashion and also in theater. Over the past few year, he’s created costumes for several New York Cit...

Don’t Tear It Down. Tear It Apart

Architect Magazine : What do we remember and how? Those are the key questions to which two exhibitions of signal importance and achieveme...

How “Love Story” Brings 1990s Style Back to the Screen

MARIST CIRCLE : In the late 1990s, Carolyn Bessette and John F. Kennedy Jr. were more than just a celebrity couple. Whether they were sim...

What is functional safety in an automation setup?

Control Design : In many automation setups, safety still operates on a simple on/off binary—either the machine is running or it isn’t. Th...

Kennedy Center begins layoffs, rocking institution ahead of two-year closure

The Washington Post : The Kennedy Center began layoffs on Thursday, initiating the first wave of anticipated cuts tied to President Donal...

2026 Baxter Zabalaza Awards: New voices redefining African theatre

www.bizcommunity.com : The Baxter Zabalaza Theatre Festival forms a fundamental part of The Baxter’s broader vision to be a vibrant and i...

Country Jukebox Musical WILD ROSE Will Open Off-Broadway This Year

www.broadwayworld.com : Wild Rose is headed to New York! The musical, directed by John Tiffany, is set to make its U.S. premiere Off-Broa...

PRG appoints Lawrence Burian as chief executive officer

AV Magazine : Production Resource Group (PRG) has appointed Lawrence Burian as chief executive with effect from 13 April He will join PR...

Sandy Shinner: a godmother of Chicago theater

Chicago Reader : At the beginning of the year, Sandy Shinner, the producing artistic director of Shattered Globe Theatre, announced that ...

New home for Yale's dramatic arts

Light & Verity | Yale Alumni Magazine : For almost 60 years, the Yale Repertory Theatre has staged most productions from a converted ...

Trans Rights Rising: 2 Shows Revisit the Compton’s Cafeteria Riots

AMERICAN THEATRE : Where can you go where it feels safe to sit with relaxed shoulders? When I first moved to Seattle in 2005, it was Bauh...

Sunday, March 29, 2026

NFTRW Weekly Top Five

Here are the top five comment generating posts of the past week: Do Grades Make Sense In The AI Era? Tech & Learning : I’ve a...

Friday, March 27, 2026

Richard Parsakian of Eons Designs Pittsburgh Opera's Fashion Show

Table Magazine : For the Pittsburgh Opera’s annual fashion fundraiser on March 23, vintage clothing dealer and perennial scene-maker Rich...

Flashforge AD5X Is a Best-Selling Printer for a Reason

Make: : “Multicolor Is Hot!” proclaimed the cover of Make: Volume 88, highlighting the Bambu Lab X1 Carbon AMS system that finally broke ...

Moment Factory designs an interactive botanical world

AV Magazine : An immersive experience that invites visitors to explore a vibrant botanical world that responds to their every movement ha...

AI in metal fabrication and the slow evolution of shop-floor technology

www.thefabricator.com : Metal fabrication abounds with new technology that can run circles around older machines. Thing is, when you visi...

‘It feels like flying!’ Sadie Sink and Noah Jupe on child stardom, passion and the heady rush of Romeo and Juliet

Theatre | The Guardian : Noah Jupe and Sadie Sink are comparing their CVs. “Noah has more Shakespeare experience than me, for sure,” says...

Hulu's ‘Paradise’ Gets An Upgrade For Season 2

www.forbes.com : I was able to sit down with Coxy, the costume designer for the second season of Paradise, over Zoom, just as I did with ...

‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Playwright Briefly Kept Out of Broadway Rehearsals

The New York Times : Making a new Broadway show is often stressful. At “Dog Day Afternoon,” a stage adaptation of Sidney Lumet’s 1975 mov...

A New Multi-Bit Milwaukee Screwdriver Arrives In April 2026 - Here's What It Costs

www.slashgear.com : In the arena of consumer power tools, Milwaukee is a brand that many regard as well as any other in the game. You may...

Congo Square ensemble members say in letter that the prominent Black theater was quietly dissolved

Chicago Sun-Times : Congo Square Theatre Company, a prominent Black ensemble theater group that produced work in Chicago for a quarter ce...

Into the Woods, Paddington, More Win U.K. Critics' Circle Theatre Awards; Read the Full List of Winners

Playbill : Winners of the 2026 Critics' Circle Theatre Awards were revealed March 26 at an afternoon ceremony at London's Nationa...

'Water for Elephants' Is Theatrical by Leaps and Bounds and Puppets

onstagepittsburgh.com : The live show takes its inspiration from the 2006 novel by Sara Gruen, in which an elderly man reflects on findin...

Brooklyn Academy of Music Names New President: Tamara McCaw

The New York Times : The Brooklyn Academy of Music announced on Thursday that it had appointed Tamara McCaw, a longtime New York arts lea...

Thursday, March 26, 2026

Pondering the Pittsburgh Public-CLO merger

wesa.fm : In February 1946, Pittsburgh’s Civic Light Opera Association announced its very first season, which began with an outdoor show ...

New research aims to improve battery safety for theatre technicians

CMBE | The University of Sheffield : Props, set design and special effects are used widely in theatre productions and these often rely on...

Steppenwolf receives grant from Sondheim Foundation for new play program

WBEZ Chicago : Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre will reboot a program that supports new plays after receiving a grant from the Stephen Sondh...

Congo Square Theatre Ensemble says board conflict, financial questions led to the collapse of historic company

OnStage Blog : The Congo Square Theatre Ensemble is speaking out about what it says led to the dissolution of Congo Square Theatre Compan...

Every show should be captioned for deaf audiences, petition demands

www.thestage.co.uk : Theatre owners ATG Entertainment, Delfont Mackintosh Theatres and LW Theatres are being urged to ensure every perfor...

Ruth E. Carter Honored At The Inaugural Camille Rose ‘Art Of Glam: Honoring The Hands Behind The Beauty’ Awards Dinner

www.forbes.com : On March 11th, the founder of beloved beauty brand Camille Rose, Janell Stephens, launched Art of Glam: Honoring the Han...

Securing Music Rights Is The Toughest Part Of Olympic Athletes’ Routines

Butts In the Seats : Entertainment lawyer Gordon Firemark and Tamera Bennett recently did a podcast episode addressing some intellectual ...

UK Theatremakers Petition for New Video Design Category at the Olivier Awards

www.broadwayworld.com : UK desigers have come together to call for a new category at the Olivier Awards acknowledging Video Design. A pet...

Nominations announced for the first-ever Broadway Ensemble Awards

www.broadwaynews.com : The Broadway Ensemble Awards are presented by the musical theater education nonprofit Stage Door Miracles Inc. The...

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