The Best and Worst of the Tony Awards 2018

The New York Times: Here’s a look at the most memorable moments — for better or for worse — of the 2018 Tony Awards, compiled by our chief theater critics, Ben Brantley and Jesse Green; the editor and reporter Joshua Barone; and the theater editor, Scott Heller. As Mr. Brantley put it on Sunday night, “This is the best advertisement for theater on network television in a long time, if not ever.”

Do we really need theater critics?

www.chicagoreader.com: Last week, Time Out eliminated the job of senior editor and critic Kris Vire.

That left Chicago—with its more than 200 theater companies and a reputation as the best theater city in the country—with one full-time print publication staff critic (that would be the Tribune's Chris Jones).

Women in the Industry - June 2018

www.iaapa.org/news: Hannah Harris found herself in a familiar predicament for parents with big dreams. Bringing to life her vision for a place where families could play together in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, would mean sacrificing time with her children. So, she flipped the script: she incorporated her family into her family entertainment center.

NYC’s 41 Broadway Theaters, Ranked

www.vulture.com: Imagine a Broadway theater.

Imagine sitting in that Broadway theater.

Imagine sitting in that Broadway theater before the lights go down, when there is nothing happening onstage yet, nothing to do but thumb through your Playbill and take in your surroundings.

ICYMI: Dark, Thrilling, Strange and Sweet: A Day-After Recap of All Things Tony Awards!

www.broadwayworld.com: The party's over... The American Theatre Wing's 72nd Annual Tony Awards, hosted by Sara Bareilles and Josh Groban, aired live from Radio City Music Hall last night, honoring theatre professionals for distinguished achievement on Broadway and wrapping up the 2017-18 awards season.

Top 8 Milling Tools for New CNC Machinists

Fusion 360 Blog: Cutting tools are nothing new. From the first stone axes to the most cutting edge end mills, humans have been creating and refining tools since the beginning of time. In this article we’ll be covering the top 8 milling tools that form the backbone of every professional machining job. Before you even start thinking about feeds and speeds you need to get a handle on these fundamentals.

The EU's Copyright Proposal is Extremely Bad News for Everyone, Even (Especially!) Wikipedia

Electronic Frontier Foundation: The pending update to the EU Copyright Directive is coming up for a committee vote on June 20 or 21 and a parliamentary vote either in early July or late September. While the directive fixes some longstanding problems with EU rules, it creates much, much larger ones: problems so big that they threaten to wreck the Internet itself.

Everything You Need to Know About Starting an Event Planning Business

eventplanningblueprint.com: verything you need to know about starting an event planning business, and the theme of this lesson is to really get down to business.

Let’s talk about four segments to focus on:

First, your roadmap for starting a successful event planning business. Whenever you are doing anything, whenever you are trying to get somewhere, it’s useful to have a roadmap.

We are going to take a look at where you are and where you want to be.

By Design: Paule Constable Lights Angels In America

www.livedesignonline.com: How does one light the first Broadway revival of a Pulitzer Prize-winning play from the 1990's that resonates as strongly today as it did then? Live Design chats with Paule Constable, the double Tony Award-winning LD (The Curious Incident of the Dog In the Nighttime and War Horse), who was nominated for a Tony again this year for her remarkable work lighting the two-part Angels in America (Millennium and Perestroika), which opened in March 2018 at the Neil Simon Theatre.

3D Printing Behind the Scenes

www.machinedesign.com: Movies often portray technology in a cool or sexy finished product that defies the laws of physics, but it seems like it’s just not as entertaining to show how the sausage is made. In the James Bond films, for example, gadgets seems to come about by magic courtesy of Q.
Some might think 3D printing is different, and it is cool. However, this article covers a few things happening behind the scenes that are allowing for a 3D-printed future. After all, tackling
challenges such as cost, build space, and speed is necessary before James Bond can drive off in his cool 3D-printed sports car.

Report Card: What Are the Top U.S. Metros for Millennials?

Rentonomics: What U.S. metros are the best for millennials?

To answer that question, Apartment List graded 75 top U.S. metros in three categories -- jobs, affordability and livability -- and ranked them, based on their scores.

Many metros score high in one or two categories, but few metros offer the ideal mix of a strong job market, affordable rent and home prices and high livability scores.

The best three metros for millennials are Pittsburgh, Provo, Utah, and Madison, Wis., which all earn A+ marks overall.

Adrienne Danrich on the Black Opera Divas Who Broke Barriers

www.clydefitchreport.com: What must it be like to be so bigoted that someone would refuse the exquisite pleasure of hearing Marian Anderson sing? In her spellbinding show, This Little Light of Mine: The Stories of Marian Anderson and Leontyne Price, operatic soprano Adrienne Danrich recounts a powerful episode from Anderson’s career that might serve as an example to some current political figures: In 1939, the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR), which owned the performance venue Constitution Hall in Washington, DC, barred the legendary African-American singer from performing on their stage because of her race.

A Look at the Tony Award Nominated Designs for a Musical

Stage Directions: Over the next 5 weeks, counting down to the TONY Awards, we will be highlighting the productions that recieved nominations for the 2018 American Theatre Wing’s Tony Awards®, presented by The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing for Set Design, Lighting Design, Costume Design and Sound Design of a musical. We congratulate all of the nominees. The 2018 Tony Awards will take place on June 10th.

How to Make a Black Man Disappear From Broadway

www.clydefitchreport.com: On the opening night of the current revival of Angels in America on Broadway, I refreshed my phone again and again, waiting for Ben Brantley’s verdict on the play in The New York Times. Angels had already conquered England — and impressed Brantley. To be honest, I didn’t really care whether he was going to give it a rave or a pan. I wanted to see if he would make someone disappear.

All's not fair in ‘Burnham’s Dream: The White City’ stage musical

Chicago Sun-Times: The story of Chicago’s White City and the 1893 World’s Fair might very well contain the building blocks of a fine musical. The gleaming exhibition halls of the 690-acre “city-within-a-city” brought millions of people from across the planet to Chicago. The epic event introduced the world to Cracker Jacks, the Ferris wheel, zippers, chewing gum and — in the person of H. H. Holmes — the nation’s first known serial killer.

“Pigeon [III1/2]” at Birch Swinger Ensemble

The Pittsburgh Tatler: There’s an exercise I’ll occasionally use in class, to help students think more expansively or differently about the world of a play we have read: “Create a scene that is missing from this play.” It’s an exercise that’s playful, fun, and a little naughty (because it wrests control of the play from its original author); it’s also an exercise that frequently yields new insights into the original play.

Science Is Divided About Music In The Workplace, But It Doesn't Matter

www.forbes.com: Whether or not we realize it on a conscious level, music is a universal language. It’s as old as time, it communicates what words alone cannot, and it speaks to each and every one of us in a deeply personal way.

The tragedy of music, then, is how often it’s used casually – as background noise, as something to fill a few empty hours, or simply because we can’t abide silence. However, research on the subject of music may have revealed it to be something pretty surprising: a productivity tool.

“King Hedley II” at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre

The Pittsburgh Tatler: Ah, Pittsburgh! Hometown of August Wilson, and place of many rains….

Those two went hand-in-hand this past Saturday at the performance of King Hedley II I attended, which has been staged by Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre in the backyard of August Wilson’s childhood home, on Bedford Street in the Hill District. We were all deeply absorbed in the story, when – drip drop – the storm began to blow in, umbrellas emerged from under seats, and Wali Jamal, playing Elmore, interrupted the scene, apologized for ending the show early, and sent us all scurrying for cover.

How to Solve Problems Like a Designer

ThoughtForm, Inc.: Problem solving is one of the most universal human pursuits. We’re always trying to do things better, easier, bigger, faster. And that won’t change anytime soon. In fact, according to the World Economic Forum’s The Future of Jobs report, by 2020, 36% of jobs across all industries will require complex problem-solving abilities as a core skill.

“Orphans” (playing at Aftershock Theater)

The Pittsburgh Tatler: I’m not in the habit of compiling “10 best” lists each year – it’s not in my DNA to have “favorites” of anything (makes choosing online security questions a challenge!). But if I were to be compiling such a list for 2018, right now the marvelous production of Lyle Kessler’s Orphans (an Actors’ Equity Association Members Project, playing at a new venue, Aftershock Theater) would be at the very top of my list.