SAG-AFTRA Health Plan Lawsuit Resolved

The Hollywood Reporter: A high-profile class-action lawsuit filed by the late Ed Asner and a group of other actors against the SAG-AFTRA Health Plan and its board of trustees has reached a proposed settlement.

Meet the Top Emerging Stylists for Next Gen Talents

News | CFDA: The role of a celebrity stylist has never been more visible. Once a behind-the-scenes force making sure celebrities are dressed for every occasion, they play a critical part in building the star’s image and, in the process, have become recognized in their own right. Below, see some of the top rising stylists to watch.

Blog: When People Ask Me What My Job Is, I Say Without Hesitation: "I'm An Actor"

www.broadwayworld.com: As a graduate of the Evening Conservatory in 2022, my time at Atlantic provided an ideal environment to hone my craft, consolidate my skills, and springboard into the professional world. Prior to enrolling at Atlantic, as an actor with more than a decade of experience and training in academic and community theater, I realized that grad school would not be a financially viable option for me at this stage (and age), so I was looking for a program that would fit into the constraints of life and still offer rigorous conservatory training.

On Assistant and Associate Directing

grahamschmidt.substack.com: Since 2019, I’ve served as Chay Yew’s Associate Director on a production called Cambodian Rock Band, by Lauren Yee. This has been an extraordinarily rewarding experience, and I’ve been lucky to work on a play, and with a director, that I connect with deeply.

Julia Riew's Viral Hit Korean Folktale Musical to Be Developed by American Repertory Theater by All Female, Asian-American Creative Team

Playbill: Massachusetts' American Repertory Theater has signed on to develop Julia Riew's musical Dive, formerly titled Shimcheong: A Folktale. The Tony-winning company has assembled an all-female, Asian-American creative team to work on the project, including Stop Kiss playwright Diana Son and Tony Award-winning director Diane Paulus.

Why aluminum welding fumes can be hazardous without proper precautions

www.thefabricator.com: Aluminum welding creates hazardous fumes that can cause damage all through the body, including the brain and nervous system. How much weld fume exposure is too much? And how can shops reduce exposure risks for welders? Here’s what welders and welding/fabricating companies should know about the hazards of aluminum welding.

The Phantom of the Opera Is Here, Inside The Times

The New York Times: I turned to the internet a week before heading to London for the first time in the summer of 2016: “Must-dos in London,” I intrepidly typed into the search box. Alongside going to Buckingham Palace and drinking tea was “See ‘Phantom of the Opera’ in the West End.”

‘We’ve had to stop people fighting and urinating in their seats’: the ugly new side of theatre audiences

Theatre | The Guardian: On Good Friday, police were called to a Manchester performance of The Bodyguard musical after staff at the Palace theatre, who were attempting to quieten an audience member singing loudly, were greeted with “unprecedented levels of violence”, according to the venue’s front of house supervisor.

The Consequences of Light Pollution

Architect Magazine: The evidence of the Anthropocene is typically described as material changes (think: modifications to the planet’s surface, the accumulation of waste plastic in the world’s oceans, or excess carbon in the atmosphere). But humanity’s outsize impact on the Earth is also represented by the influence of light.

Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Closing of ‘Phantom,’ the Loss of My Son and the Future of Broadway

The New York Times: I owe everything to my love of Broadway and its glorious legacy of musicals. So everything I write comes from my childhood dream that I’d make it to the Great White Way. All roads lead to my late friend and collaborator Hal Prince. My association with Hal goes back to 1970, when he sent me a telegram proposing that he direct and produce “Jesus Christ Superstar” on Broadway. It got to me only after the show was already committed. Hal knew of my regret, and we kept in touch.

Chun Wai Chan Brings Hunger and Humility to His Multinational Career

www.dancemagazine.com: Some dancers reveal their truest selves in performance, heightening and deepening the qualities that make them who they are. Onstage, Chun Wai Chan is forthright and generous, regal but not aloof, with an open countenance that complements an uncluttered technique. Those impressions hold true offstage, where the New York City Ballet principal is candid, sincere and warm—hospitable, even, as if hosting a dinner party rather than sitting for a magazine interview.

Shakespeare in Yosemite uses 'Romeo and Juliet' to present a hopeful environmental message

Datebook: At Shakespeare in Yosemite, which features uniformed park rangers among its cast members, the point isn’t to present Shakespeare faithfully. It’s to use his texts as launching pads to deliver hopeful environmental messages about preserving nature. If that means heavy adaptation — including wholesale ending reversals — so be it.

Quantum Sets 2023-24 Sites: ‘Hamlet’ at Carrie Furnaces, Chagall Musical Fantasy at Rodef Shalom, Plus ‘Scenes From an Execution’

onStage Pittsburgh: With a unique display of First Folios as a backdrop, Quantum Theatre previewed its 2023-24 season, which includes Hamlet and the return to the scene of another Bard tragedy. Quantum will be taking up residence again at the Carrie Furnaces, the National Historic Landmark where, in 2019, the company performed an epic production of King Lear.

Romeo, Macbeth, Hamlet and me: the ecstasy and agony of staging Shakespeare

Theatre | The Guardian: O, I am fortune’s fool! It’s the opening night of my production of Romeo and Juliet, at the Mayfair theatre in London, and Romeo has just fainted. It’s 1979, and I am 20 years old.

‘An American Tail’ musical adaptation hopes a Jewish immigration story will resonate in 2023

The Forward: Itamar Moses was 10 years old when he watched “An American Tail” at his Jewish day school in California. He was struck by the 1986 film, an animated musical about a family of Russian-Jewish mice who immigrate to America. Even though he was surrounded by Jewish classmates and teachers, he had never seen a cartoon with Jewish protagonists.

The Fight for the Baton and Gender Equality

SoundGirls.org: The iconic scene of a woman bringing a chair in the middle of a concert to watch and learn the conducting of an orchestra by a famous male conductor, and then being expelled from the place, showed me how bravely this woman tried to pursue her dream. This scene could be from a movie today, but it happened almost 100 years ago, in 1926, in New York, and the woman portrayed was Antonia Brico in her biographical film “The Conductor” (2018), which I highly recommend.

Actors' Equity Members and League of Resident Theatres Ratify New Agreement

www.broadwayworld.com: Key provisions of the contract include meaningful salary increases and growth in all three job categories: chorus, principals and stage managers. The new agreement also widens equity, diversity and inclusion protections, including regarding hair styling and costuming, and expands protection surrounding bullying, discrimination and harassment.

Prime Stage's Third Annual High School Drama Awards to be Presented on April 24th

onstagepittsburgh.com: On April 24, the Prime Stage Theatre Company will host its third annual High School Drama Awards at the New Hazlett Theater. This unique event recognizes excellence in High School fall plays produced across Western Pennsylvania. Prime Stage Theatre Drama Awards’ Director John Dolphin stated that the company’s goal with the awards this year and in coming years is to “create an event that all of the local High Schools will look forward to attending.”

MSG Entertainment Plans Fall Debut for “Sphere Experiences”

www.ticketnews.com: The new MSG Sphere at the Venetian, the huge project of entertainment industry, will welcome its visitors with “Sphere Experiences,” one of the core content categories to be featured at the venue, when it opens its doors this fall. An immersive production called Postcard from Earth will be launched in order to meet audiences with the arts and entertainment of 22nd century technologies under the “Sphere Experiences”, which features an LED display inside the main venue bowl that wraps up, over and around the audience.

Masks, Tears, and Chandeliers: Reflections on the Final Phantom of the Opera Performance

Playbill: An era in Broadway history is over. The Phantom of the Opera, the last of the original British Invasion mega-musicals to still be running in its original production, ended its historic 35-year Broadway run April 16 with a performance that will immediately go into the history books. The invitation-only performance did include two tickets for Playbill, and though we can't tell you how we decided who should get to attend, we can confirm that the injuries were minimal.