What happens when AI is used for performance reviews?

Fast Company: During the last decade, digital innovations have produced a range of recruitment and evaluation tools: now, whenever you first apply for a job, you are less likely to be judged by humans and more likely to be assessed by AI. Before you can even get the opportunity to impress a human interviewer, you will first need to impress the algorithm!

Review Roundup: THE HONEY TRAP at Irish Repertory Theatre

www.broadwayworld.com: Now running at Irish Repertory Theatre is the New York Premiere of The Honey Trap by Leo McGann . Directed by Matt Torney, the cast includes Doireann Mac Mahon, Daniel Marconi, Samantha Mathis, Molly Ranson, Harrison Tipping, and Annabelle Zasowski.

Disney can't get 'Hercules' right — musical doesn't go distance in London

nypost.com: Disney has been hammering away at “Hercules” for eons. And more often than not, the show has toppled over like the Colossus of Rhodes. The Public put on a nice enough production of the 1997 Alan Menken and David Zippel cartoon musical back in 2019 in Central Park, but it was a one-off amusement that included hundreds of members of local community groups. Still, I saw promise in it.

Chasing the Cool at Williamstown Theatre Festival

AMERICAN THEATRE: “If you find yourself dozing off during my show, don’t worry about it,” Ahamefule J. Oluo assured me, by way of a short video text half an hour before the start of their solo musical narrative show, The Things Around Us. I found it curious and ironic that my 10-show weekend—my first at the Williamstown Theatre Festival—began with an invitation to take a nap.

From ‘Sex’ to ‘Superstar,’ 10 Plays That Caused a Stir

The New York Times: The marketing campaign for the Broadway-bound “Slave Play” is following the time-honored tradition of leaning into its controversy, with pull quotes like “Gaudily transgressive” and “Gruesomely sexy.” Assuming the transgressions and sexiness carry through to the Golden Theater, “Slave Play” will find itself part of a rich history of productions — many of them transfers from the more licentious lands of Off Broadway and London — that shocked audience members upon opening on Broadway.

Famously secretive, MPAA pulls back the curtain on ratings — a little bit

Los Angeles Times: In the eyes of many filmmakers, the Motion Picture Assn. of America should be rated R — for reticent. The MPAA has long kept its rating methods a tightly guarded secret as it continues to wield enormous power over the types of explicit content that can been shown in U.S. cinemas.

“In the Tunnel” and “TseSho/ What’s That?”

The Pittsburgh Tatler: Gesher Theatre’s extraordinary In the Tunnel juxtaposes two narratives centered on the never-ending Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Below is the concrete-dun, claustrophobic, dimly lit tunnel in which a pair of Israeli reserve soldiers encounter a pair of Hamas fighters; the resulting skirmish leaves one of the Palestinians dead and the other three fighters trapped together in a stalemate.

Three Broadway Musicals Closed Last Week. What Happened?

www.forbes.com: Closing a show on Broadway is always painful - on the heart and on the wallet. Each one is essentially a multi-million dollar startup venture, with high risks and the potential for high rewards, driven by passion.

This week was particularly rough, as a trio of musicals - 1/10th of the entire Broadway market - took their final bows. Each was quite different from the next: one was a traditional revival, one had the backing of a multi-billion dollar corporation, and one began life as a series of improvised workshops in New Jersey.

The Wiz

Pittsburgh in the Round: For their fiftieth production, The Alumni Theatre Company reprises their first show. The Wiz is a retelling of L. Frank Baum’s classic 1900 children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in the context of modern African-American culture. The show is a perfect fit for this company, now in its tenth season, with its mission “to create bold theatrical work that gives fresh voice to the experience of young urban artists and highlights their rich contribution to our community.”

Review Roundup: Were Critics Head Over Heels for HEAD OVER HEELS?

www.broadwayworld.com: Head Over Heels opens on Broadway tonight at Broadway's Hudson Theatre (141 West 44th Street)! Let's see what the critics had to say!

From the visionaries that rocked Broadway with Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Next To Normal, American Idiot, Spring Awakening and Avenue Q, the Head Over Heels creative team is led by director Michael Mayer with musical supervision, orchestrations and arrangements by Tom Kitt and choreography by Spencer Liff.

What's It Like to Star in a Cult Musical?

Theatre Development Fund – TDF: Stephanie Hsu realized something was happening when she started getting tagged in fan art of her Be More Chill character: theatre-obsessed teenager Christine Canigula. She was surprised that young people from all over the world had discovered an obscure musical that only ran for a month at New Jersey's Two River Theater back in 2015. "We had so much fun while we were out there, but I wasn't thinking that it would generate such a huge following," says Hsu. "It really felt like one day I woke up two years after we did the show, and all of a sudden I had all of this fan art being sent to me. And I was like, what? That was the experience of a lot of the original cast members."

This theater company rebuilt the Titanic and sinks it in a lake every

www.fastcompany.com: A theater company outside Atlanta is putting on a production of the musical Titanic that features an ambitious centerpiece: a massive three-story structure that sinks into the middle of a lake during the performance—only to rise again and do it all over the next night.

liz west's first permeant installation colour transfer redefines paddington bridge

www.designboom.com: an optically vibrant and kaleidoscopic installation was created using multiple angled colored mirrors and brickwork. as you walk through the tunnel, the prismatic shapes of the mirror which compliment the architecture of the bridge’s underbelly, allows for the colors to change depending on where you are located. thus, the piece will appear differently depending to your line of vision with the tunnel.

The Radical Looks of Sorry to Bother You

The Mary Sue: Sorry to Bother You has over 100 costume looks: a significantly high number for an independent film. Each one is carefully crafted, as distinct as the character wearing it. The man With No Name, the utilitarian but subtle Squeeze, Omari Hardwick’s Mr. Blank, a power caller. Each outfit told a story and Govan placed a big emphasis on being balanced, “a complete equanimity with all of the characters.”

High school thespians come together for 'Night of the Stars'

TribLIVE: Veteran actor, performing arts enthusiast and Greensburg attorney John Noble always has a new idea for taking his beloved showcase of musical theater, “John Noble's Westmoreland Night of the Stars,” to the next level.

Last year he expanded the show to two nights to accommodate the growing number of participating schools and capacity crowds at The Palace Theatre.