Rides & Attractions Revealed for Peppa Pig Theme Park

Coaster101: Six rides, six themed playscapes, a water play area and even more oinktastic experiences have been revealed for the World’s First Peppa Pig Theme Park. These all-new attractions will create an unforgettable day of adventure at the new standalone theme park, opening in 2022, just steps away from LEGOLAND® Florida Resort.

COVID-19 Delta variant threatens theater plans

Los Angeles Times: “Delta, Delta, Delta, can I help ya, help ya, help ya?” I think of that old SNL skit about sorority sisters every time I hear the word “Delta,” which, these days, is pretty much all the time. It’s a bizarre bit of cognitive dissonance: something that used to make us hiccup with laughter is also the COVID-19 variant on the rise in L.A. County. Hot vax summer has turned into, as my colleague Tracy Brown tweeted, “hot masks summer,” and as numbers continue to soar, fear is growing among theater groups that audiences will hunker down at home once again.

Preview - Pittsburgh Savoyards' presentation of The Imaginary Invalid

Pittsburgh in the Round: The Pittsburgh Savoyards opened their 84th season on July 22nd with live performances of Molière’s final theatrical work, The Imaginary Invalid, on the outdoor stage at the South Park Theatre.

Black Theater Artists Are Helping Shakespeare Speak To More Diverse Audiences

NPR: Thousands of people will lay down blankets this week and watch Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's annual production in Boston Common, the heart of the city's sacred civic space.

Lollapalooza Covid Protocols Report: What's Happening On The Ground?

consequence.net: When Lollapalooza announced its return to Chicago back in May, it felt like one more positive sign of a return to some kind of post-pandemic normal. Flash forward to this week, and the sentiment around Chicago has become far more ambivalent; stalling COVID-19 vaccination rates and the emergence of the dangerous Delta variant led prominent local music critics to label the festival a potential superspreader event.

Due to variant concern, DC theatergoers still reluctant to return, says new study

DC Metro Theater Arts: Despite increased vaccination rates, concerns over the delta variant may be driving hesitation to return to the theater, according to a new study, posing a challenge for theaters planning to reopen in the fall. Limelight Insights by Shugoll, a national marketing research company in Rockville, Maryland, conducted an online survey with 526 DC-area theatergoers from July 13 to 15, 2021, on their intent to return to theaters. This is the fifth wave of this study for DC that has been tracking these issues since the pandemic began.

Cosplay Central Virtual Competition Gallery At Cosplay Day

Cosplay Central: This year's Cosplay Central Virtual Competition consisted of 58 total contestants from around the world. Premiering on Cosplay Cental's YouTube channel, the competition was hosted by Jaremi Carey and featured judges Alyson Tabbitha, Xephyr Studios, and Bakka Cosplay.

Disney Imagineers on the Creative Process and Behind the Attraction

collider.com: The Disney+ original series Behind the Attraction peels back the curtain to give a glimpse into the magic of Disney Parks, as it explores how Imagineers created, designed, and developed various theme park attractions around the world. Over the course of 10 episodes (five of which are available now, and the remaining five will be out later this year), viewers will get to learn about current and previous attractions, with archival and never-before-seen footage and photographs, and see how they’ve been refined over the years as new ideas arise and technology evolves.

Workshop Tools Are Available In First-Class

Hackaday: Most of dream of having a fully-stocked shop with all of the tools needed to build our projects, at least if we don’t already have such a shop. In the meantime, a lot of us are hacking together our own tools and working on whatever bench space might be available to us.

when robots compose poetry: tetro presents new kinetic sculpture created by collectif scale

www.designboom.com: ‘flux’ is a new light installation designed by collectif scale, which evolves smoothly as music plays. the kinetic project is composed of multiple lines of dynamic light, which twist and turn to form a ‘living’ robotic sculpture. tetro has presented the project at the constellations festival, an international digital art rendezvous, which will be live until the 4th of september 2021 in the city of metz, france.

‘You’re Dying for Your Dream’: Exploited Hollywood Assistants Are at Their Breaking Point and Fighting Back

www.thedailybeast.com: Jayce Jurado is pretty sure she is the only person to make it to Hollywood from where she grew up. The 30-year-old Filipino American hails from Saipan, the largest of the Northern Mariana Islands. Given that Saipan houses only 48,220 people, Jurado is probably right.

Cincinnati Shakespeare Company Welcomes 4 New Leaders

AMERICAN THEATRE: Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (CSC) has announced new leadership team members, including Kate Bindus, production manager; Candice Handy, director of education; Crystian Wiltshire, associate artistic director; and Maddie Regan, who joins the executive leadership team as managing director. This team expansion comes in preparation for the return of CSC’s mainstage season this fall.

5 Important Things a Sound Engineer Must Keep in Mind

SoundGirls.org: Being a sound engineer is difficult sometimes. You have a lot of things to consider when you are planning a live event and you will be the one that takes all the blame if the event is not a success. Sound mixing can be an enjoyable experience, but only if you are prepared to take care of all of the tasks that are required of you during a live event.

Watching the Dance World Return, Without Me

Dance Magazine: Sitting on a quiet South Carolina beach this month, I felt something I hadn't felt in many months: the desire to move. I tried single-leg balances, some basic floorwork, headstands…formerly easy things that I now couldn't quite do. Stunned and emotionally spiraling, I sat in the sand and let it all wash over me; it wasn't until this moment that I finally reflected on what I had lost to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

IATSE Taking Hard Line In Advance Of Next Month’s Film & TV Contract Talks

Deadline: IATSE is talking tough in advance of next month’s resumption of negotiations with management’s Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers for a new film and TV contract, with the union and the leaders of its 13 West Coast studio locals demanding livable wages, shorter workdays and sustainable benefits for their members, as well as an end to discounts that have long been afforded to so-called “New Media” productions.

Mixing a New Musical

SoundGirls.org: Getting any show up and running is hard. Layers upon layers of new information are being added to the piece once the actors move from the rehearsal space to the performance venue, and it’s all happening very quickly. As a show’s A1, I am hard at work preparing my script, generating paperwork, programming the console, and in some cases also working as a hand on the shop build and/or load-in. Design elements are coming together throughout the tech process. Ideas are tried, then retooled, and tried again. However, one thing that usually isn’t changing is the actual script of the show. Not so on new work!

Emilio Sosa Has Been Elected the Chair of the American Theatre Wing

www.broadwayworld.com: Tony Award-nominated Costume and Fashion Designer Emilio Sosa has been elected the Chair of the American Theatre Wing. Having joined the board of the American Theatre Wing in 2015, Mr. Sosa will succeed current co-chairs David Henry Hwang and Ted Chapin. Both Mr. Hwang and Mr. Chapin will maintain active roles for the Wing as they take on responsibilities as its Immediate Past Chairs.

97 percent of companies want to continue participating in trade fairs

LightSoundJournal.com: 97 percent of companies want to continue participating in trade fairs That was the finding of the second round of Messe Frankfurt’s customer survey. Known as the Customer Care Campaign (CCC), the survey was first conducted in autumn 2020 and then repeated in spring 2021.

Theatre Leadership Project Announces Company Management Program

Playbill: The Theatre Leadership Project has announced a new program that will provide on-the-job training, mentorship opportunities, and financial support to up to five BIPOC company managers and assistant company managers. The program is designed for company managers and assistants currently working on Broadway shows, particularly as the industry is starting up again.

Live theatre can boost empathy and pro-social behavior, according to new research

www.psypost.org: Watching a live theatre production can increase empathy for the groups depicted in the plays and may even result in real changes in charitable behavior, according to new research published in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology. The findings shed light on how the consumption of fictional narratives can alter people’s socio-political beliefs and their behavior towards others.