Inspo from the Festival Season’s Experiential Builds

Exhibit Design: As trade show properties make moves to prioritize community and connection and create more opportunities for exhibitors—Outdoor Retailer’s acquisition of an adventure lifestyle festival as one example—consumer-style experiential is infusing booths with new energy. Here, we round up experiential strategies from the festival season to help inspire your exhibit design themes, builds and tactics to better engage trend-forward business audiences.

‘Suffs’ is coming to Broadway with Hillary Clinton and Malala Yousafzai as producers

www.timeout.com: Chronicling the years that preceded the passage of the 19th Amendment, when American women ostensibly achieved the right to vote, the musical from Shaina Taub puts a spotlight on feminism with a “catchy mix of jazz, Tin Pan Alley and pop earworms,” Time Out reviewer Raven Snook wrote last year.

First-Ever Haunted Mansion Bar Coming to the Disney Treasure in 2024

Disney Parks Blog: I have some eerie news for you just in time for Halloween! Happy haunts will soon materialize on the high seas at the Haunted Mansion Parlor, the world’s first Haunted Mansion-inspired bar on Disney Cruise Line’s newest ship, the Disney Treasure!

How Counter Culture & Communism Created Renaissance Fairs

The Mary Sue: The first Renaissance fair (or faire, if you’re into it) in the United States took place just outside of Los Angeles in 1963. The creation of the faire was a direct result of the communist witch hunt headed up by Joseph McCarthy, which inadvertently created a community of progressively-minded creatives in the neighborhood of Laurel Canyon, California.

Lightweight AR glasses float a big screen in front of your eyes

newatlas.com: Augmented-reality wearable producer nReal has rebranded to Xreal and launched two pairs of AR glasses designed to virtually float a huge screen in front of your eyes. The Air 2 and Air 2 Pro models are up for pre-order now.

How Ben Affleck, George Clooney Lobbied to Resume Actors Strike Talks

The Hollywood Reporter: A call from Disney CEO Bob Iger to SAG-AFTRA national executive director Duncan Crabtree-Ireland on Saturday, Oct. 21, set in motion the long-awaited return to negotiations between the union and Hollywood studios later this week.

REX creates "holy grail" combination of performance spaces in Providence

www.dezeen.com: New York architecture studio REX has completed the "most automated" performance building in the world at Brown University's campus in Providence, Rhode Island. Called The Lindemann Performing Arts Center (The Lindemann) the 101,000 square-foot (9,383-square-metre) structure consists of a shoebox theatre with a long bridge-like walkway.

Daniel Radcliffe Harry Potter Doc About Paralyzed Stunt Performer

variety.com: Daniel Radcliffe has boarded the upcoming HBO original documentary “David Holmes: The Boy Who Lived” as an executive producer, in addition to being prominently featured in the film as an interview subject. The movie, set to debut in November, chronicles the life of Radcliffe’s “Harry Potter” stunt double, who worked closely alongside Radcliffe from “Sorcerer’s Stone” all the way to “Deathly Hallows Part 1” when he was tragically paralyzed during a set accident. Holmes broke his neck performing a stunt and was paralyzed from the chest down.

Obstructed View At The 'Sphere' In Las Vegas Ruins Experience

brobible.com: The ‘Sphere’ in Las Vegas has quickly become one of the biggest viral sensations on the internet and people are flocking to Sin City to check it out, but it is important to know where you are buying your tickets before you go. An obstructed view in the 200-level section completely ruins the entire experience. Beware!

How Tomorrow’s Choreographers Are Cultivated at Marymount Manhattan College

Dance Magazine: Most students major in dance seeking rigorous training and career-focused knowledge to succeed in the professional world. But the team at Marymount Manhattan College doesn’t just help students land their dream dance job—they give them the tools to create it.

Find Your Community at Autodesk University 2023

Fusion 360 Blog: One of the best parts of Autodesk University is the chance to connect with your community and meet up with new and old peers. This year, we’ve planned numerous events to help facilitate community connection, from meetups to hands-on expe.

RSC to put on work by poet who wrote Stratford theatre’s first words

John Masefield | The Guardian: Many people might assume that the first words spoken on the stage of the new Shakespeare playhouse in Stratford-upon-Avon when it opened in 1932 were written by Shakespeare, but in fact they were by John Masefield.

The Easiest Remote Control Animatronic Skull With Micro:Bit and Crazy Circuits

Make:: They think treat, we think trick! This DIY talking skull project can be controlled from afar so that you can prank your trick-or-treaters. They’ll think it’s a store-bought Halloween display, but then when it starts to say things that could never have been pre-recorded, they’ll think it’s possessed and run away!!!!!

"450 Resin-Coated Pieces of Plastic": Production Designer Ethan Tobman and Mark Mylod on The Menu

Filmmaker Magazine: Ethan Tobman describes production design as the art of “visually interpreting the world of a director through emotional architecture.” Below, he and director Mark Mylod discuss their film The Menu and going from reference images on the wall to a fully realized world structured to best absorb the viewer emotionally while furthering the narrative (along with meticulously crafting a last-minute birthday cake and a finale involving a carefully choreographed 30×60-foot flaming dessert).

Heart rates determine Journey to Hell Freak Nights' biggest scare

attractionsmagazine.com: The team behind Journey to Hell Freak Nights, the haunt event at Blackpool Pleasure Beach theme park in the U.K., recently measured guests’ heart rates to identify which of the event’s experiences was scariest.

REX reveals Brown University's new adaptable Performing Arts Center

www.archpaper.com: REX has released renderings of Brown University’s new Performing Arts Center (PAC), a 94,500-square-foot boxy building designed with a “radical vision” for the school that features a transformative interior production space. The massive institutional project, located in Providence, Rhode Island, is slated to open in spring of 2022.

REX’s transformative design application shines at Lindemann Performing Arts Center

www.archpaper.com: Settled on the historic College Hill in Providence, Rhode Island is the new Lindemann Performing Arts Center at Brown University. Open to the public on October 21, the space has been described as “a machine” given all the moveable components within the 101,000-square-foot cube, but the architects thinks of it instead as a “tool.”

How 'Loki' Season 2 Recreated the 1893 Chicago World's Fair

collider.com: The second season of Loki is recreating history, literally and metaphorically. In this time travel tale the God of Mischief (Tom Hiddleston) and Mobius (Owen Wilson) are on a trip hopping timelines in a bid to save the TVA and by extension the sacred timeline. The third episode, which hits the halfway mark for the series, elaborated on some burning questions that fans had since the first season and also took us back in time to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair to find Victor Timely (Jonathan Majors), a variant of Kang, in a bid to repair the Time Loop.

SAG-AFTRA Forced To Clarify They Don't Actually Care What Actors' Kids Dress Up as on Halloween

The Mary Sue: SAG-AFTRA released some “tips & tricks” last week for celebrating Halloween during the strike and caused a bit of a stir among its members. A lot of actors and even the former president of SAG-AFTRA, Melissa Gilbert, had something to say about the guidelines. The union instructed members to avoid characters from struck work this spooky season. That includes no Barbies, Kens, or Oppenheimers in their futures.

How Darren Aronofsky Shot His 18K Sphere Film With a 12-Person Camera Crew

nofilmschool.com: For anyone who’s been to Las Vegas in the past few months, or simply been online to see images and videos shared across social media, can tell you—the new Sphere arena is a sight to behold. Perhaps now fittingly referred to as one of the newest wonders of the world, the giant state-of-the-art LED screen features a 160,000 square-foot display that features a resolution over 80 times that of a normal high-definition television.