Mainstreaming the Conversation About Discrimination Again

Women and Hollywood: The New York Times has written about Hollywood sexism before. Last year, we saw a three-part series from Manohla Dargis on the institutional discrimination against women directors in the industry. But Maureen Dowd's exposé on the issue late last week took it to a whole different level.

Projection Mapping Debuts At White House Trick Or Treat Event With WorldStage Support

Live Design Briefing Room press release archives: The White House celebrated Halloween with Trick or Treat festivities for close to 5,000 military families and area school children and the first projection mapping of the landmark residence. WorldStage was honored to participate in the event supporting the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA) in illuminating the South Portico of the White House.

A Closer Look at Eye Protection with Edge Eyewear

Pro Tool Reviews: No matter if you’re on an indoor or outdoor jobsite, eye protection is mandatory. I spent a summer working for a power company. There’s one thing I learned about eye protection there – it is required to be butt ugly.

But does it really have to be that way? We’ve teamed up with Edge Eyewear to look at a couple of new models of eyewear and see what eye protection needs to be and what it’s free to be.

Circuit Board Tattoos That Actually Work Will Bring Your Cyborg Fantasies To Life

gizmodo.com: There’s a common misconception that tattoos are only a way to express your individuality (just like everyone else does), or only serve as loving tributes to moms. But they have practical medical applications too, especially now that circuit board temporary tattoos exist.

Off the Road: California: The Tempest

HowlRound: I was wrestling the last of my suitcases out my front door. It had taken two trips to get them all down the stairs, and I was boldly hoping to take them all at once now that I was on level ground.

“Oh, excuse me!” I said, pulling my luggage out of someone's path as they tried to come in the door. It was my new neighbor with a friend.

“Where are you headed?” they asked me, taking in my baggage situation.

What's On Your Phone, Chris Powell?

AMT Lab @ CMU: Christopher Powell’s unique position as Director of Administration and Community Engagement at The Glimmerglass Festival allows him to work on many new initiatives for the festival. His leadership is required to address projects across various departments such as marketing, planning, artistic administration, public relations, and community engagement. The Glimmerglass Festival, located in Cooperstown, NY, is an internationally renowned summer opera festival, which produces four new productions a year. Before joining Glimmerglass, Powell served as Music Administrator at Pittsburgh Opera for fourteen seasons.

An airplane fuselage gets transformed into a stunning interstellar light show

sploid.gizmodo.com: Wow. PlayMID’s Porta Estel·lar is a trully stunning visual light show inside an old airplane fuselage. It mimics the concept of interstellar travel, “from departure and takeoff to the sighting of comets, planets, galaxies and alien worlds, until finally returning safe to earth.”

The Psychology of What Makes an Image "Horror"

The Creators Project: Emotional storytelling manifests in film, but when it comes to the horror genre, images can walk a fine line between fiction and reality. Whether viewing the latest torture porn, or tuning into the ten o’clock news, innate feelings of fear are regularly consumed through pictures.

The 'Oscar conversation' is only as white as The Hollywood Reporter wants it to be

The Verge: Every Oscar season, The Hollywood Reporter, one of the most powerful trade magazines in entertainment, runs a series of roundtables featuring the stars poised to win it all at the Academy Awards. And, with some notable exceptions, those roundtables are almost always exclusively white. It's a tradition as hallowed as the awards themselves, but it’s getting harder to get away with.

Mixed Reality Experiences Take On the Future of Nightlife

The Creators Project: Electronic music and live audiovisuals have been partners in good times for many, many years. Peering into a crystal ball to see what their future might look like is Marshmallow Laser Feast who teamed up with indie electronic record label R&S Records, Absolut, and Protein for a "mixed reality exploration into the future of nightlife" called Electrik London.

50 Years of Broadway Musical Source Material. A By The Numbers Infographic.

The Producer's Perspective: One of my favorite questions to ask my writer podcast guests is where they get their ideas for their musicals. Because whether we like it or not, the Broadway Musical is not an original business. Absolutely original ideas are rare, as you’ll see below, partly because they are so risky. What makes them so? Is it because audiences need some pre-existing brand to help them plunk down their credit card? Or is it because original ideas are harder to execute and therefore just don’t turn out as good?

These People Stuck Their Arm In A Hole To Get A Surprise Tattoo

fashionablygeek.com: Scott Campbell is a famous tattoo artist, and his work adorns celebrities ranging from Penélope Cruz to Marc Jacobs. Recently he embarked upon a tattooing project called Whole Glory that’s not for the faint of heart. He offered his tattooing services free of charge to absolute strangers. The catch? Participants would stick their arm into a hole and Campbell would tattoo whatever he wanted—and they wouldn’t be able to view the tattoo until it was done.

The Story Behind The Creation Of The Unisphere

90.5 WESA: It was the architectural centerpiece of the 1964-1965 New York World’s Fair. It’s been seen in movies and television shows. It’s the iconic New York City landmark the Unisphere. Joining us with a detailed look at the creation of this structure is Robert Morris University professor Daniel Short author of the book Unisphere: Symbol of the 1964-1965 New York’s World Fair.

'Straight White Men's' Young Jean Lee is a fearless risk-taker

LA Times: Playwright Young Jean Lee wants to brutalize you. She wants to get in your face and make you, the audience, squirm, so that you leave the theater questioning not just what you've seen but your very existence.

"The agenda is to create a trap — for the audience and myself, so that we can't get out of whatever problem the play is wrestling with," says Lee, whose "Straight White Men" will have its West Coast premiere Sunday at the Centre Theatre Group's Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City. "I'm trying to make work people can't so easily dismiss."

What Does an "Air Sculptor" Do? A Handful of Theatre Jobs You Didn't Know Existed

Playbill.com: From stage managers and makeup artists, to costume designers and sound engineers, it takes a village to raise a show. Still, there are some job titles in the Who's Who that even we don't recognize. We unearth the truth behind these mystery careers.

Vice interview with Eagles of Death Metal paris attacks

Business Insider: Two members of the American rock band whose show was interrupted by gunfire during the attacks in Paris spoke to Vice about the experience.

"Several people hid in our dressing room and the killers were able to get in and killed every one of them, except for a kid who was hiding under my leather jacket," Jesse Hughes said.

Pittsburgh's Light Up Night shines throughout the city

Blogh | Pittsburgh | Pittsburgh City Paper: The holiday season officially kicked off in Pittsburgh on Friday night as people filled the Downtown streets for the city's 55th Annual Light Up Night festivities.

Lamb of God on Canceled Tour: We Won't Play 'Terror Alert Hopscotch'

Rolling Stone: Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe wrote a lengthy statement defending his band's decision to cancel their European tour following terror threats on the continent. The outspoken singer explains in the post to his Randonesia Tumblr that the group had carried on with the tour even after learning of the deadly attack on Eagles of Death Metal's Paris show, playing dates in England and Germany, before news of "a specific occurrence" that Blythe does not explain in detail prompted the band head home. Although he did not specify the event, he later mentioned that guns could have gone off in his venue.

Que Onda? with Josefina López and CASA 0101 Theater

HowlRound: Chicana playwright Josefina López founded CASA 0101 Theater in Boyle Heights in 2000 to nurture the future storytellers of Los Angeles and to provide a space for Latina/o art-making on Los Angeles’s Eastside. This year marks the company’s fifteenth year—its quinceañera—of producing community-engaged theatre and cultural arts production. Here, López reflects on the past, present, and future of CASA 0101 as well as on her own position as a playwright, mentor, and community leader.

Even With $100 Million Weekends, Women Can't Win in Showbiz

WIRED: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2 just made $101 million at the box office. At the same time that Katniss Everdeen racked up those numbers—below projections, but still an astronomical figure—Jessica Jones became a critical darling on Netflix. It was a great weekend to be a female badass. Unless, of course, you were a female badass who happened to work in Hollywood.