Step Afrika!’s 'The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence' Ignites a Fire of Hope and Rejuvenation

onstagepittsburgh.com: The Pittsburgh Dance Council’s 2025-26 series continued last night with Step Afrika!’s The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence. Combining traditional African instruments and choreography, artistic director Mfoniso Akpan and 17 tremendously talented cast members brought this profoundly moving piece to life. The Migration: Reflections on Jacob Lawrence tells the story of African Americans moving from the rural South to the industrial North to escape Jim Crow, racial oppression, and lynchings in the early 1900s.

Big Energy, Bigger Beats: Shaq’s Fun House Takes Over San Francisco

The Knockturnal: Shaquille O’Neal doesn’t do anything halfway—and on Friday, February 6, he proved it once again as Shaq’s Fun House Presented by Credit One Bank made its San Francisco debut. Touching down at the legendary Cow Palace, the larger-than-life spectacle kicked off Super Bowl weekend with booming bass, flashing lights, and an energy level only Shaq could deliver.

‘Let’s go out in a beautiful fashion’: Australian theatre company says goodbye with one last wondrous show

Australian theatre | The Guardian: Burrowed in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens, in a cool spot of shade among the plane trees under the hot summer sun, is a strange new addition: a circular wooden building created to snuggly fit 110 audience members. Above the front door, a sign welcomes us to the “Wandering Hall of Possibility” and, beyond it, a small crew is working on the finishing touches.

5 Gadgets Sold At Home Depot That Any DIYer Would Consider A Must-Have

www.slashgear.com: It's easy to find items that expert DIYers can use at Home Depot. The big-box retailer carries everything from saws and hammers to lumber and bags of cement for building projects. There's also a selection of windows, doors, and paint to finish it. While there are a plethora of Home Depot tools under $50 that are worth the money, not everything at Home Depot qualifies as a DIYer must-have gadget.

Arena Stage announces new play festival celebrating 75 years of American theater

DC Theater Arts: Arena Stage at the Mead Center for American Theater has announced its 75th Anniversary New Play Festival, a three-day celebration of new work running February 27 through March 1, honoring the theater’s founding commitment to commissioning and developing bold American voices.

Universal Forced to Evacuate Packed Parade After Float Safety Failure

disneytips.com: Universal’s operational teams face constant challenges managing parade logistics during a multi-month event where any mechanical failure, navigation error, or infrastructure issue can disrupt carefully scheduled entertainment that guests have waited hours to experience and that forms core memories of Universal Orlando vacations.

Textile waste classification under the Harmonized System

www.reusenews.eu: Operation Demeter XI marked a shift. For the first time, textiles were treated as a priority waste stream in the World Customs Organization’s global enforcement effort against illegal waste trafficking. The result: 1,176 tonnes of textile waste were reportedly intercepted or returned across 25 operations. But when customs went looking for textile waste, what did they actually find?

More than a wedding day: Lessons from behind the clipboard

The Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle: As a luxury wedding planner, I know that a wedding is never just a party. Long before the band strikes its first note or the chuppah comes into view, the planning process becomes a delicate negotiation of expectations, emotions and identities — between couples, parents, grandparents, and often across generations.

Video: Anna Deavere Smith Featured in Exclusive Clip From PBS' BLACK AND JEWISH AMERICA Series

www.broadwayworld.com: Playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith is looking back at her provocative theater work in Black and Jewish America: An Interwoven History. The ongoing four-part docuseries spotlights the complex history and relationship between Black Americans and Jewish Americans.

The enduring use of pneumatic grippers

www.motioncontroltips.com: Mechanical jaw grippers driven pneumatically or electrically are indispensable and ubiquitous. These include parallel grippers, three-finger grippers, and angled-finger grippers. Permanent-magnet and electromagnet-based end effectors handle ferrous parts for the machine-tool industry.

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Wuthering Heights costumes 'aren't historically accurate'

Yahoo Style Canada: Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi star as Cathy and Heathcliff in director Emerald Fennell's reimagining of Emily Bronte's classic tale and Oscar-winning costume designer Jacqueline Durran has now opened up about the movie's lavish looks - insisting the stunning outfits are an amalgamation of different fashion from across the centuries.

Olympic figure skating fashion: Behind the costume designs

ESPN: FIGURE SKATING COSTUMES gleam under the lights at Milano Ice Skating Arena at the 2026 Winter Games. With every twizzle, lift and lutz, thousands of sequins and crystals -- often Swarovski -- bedazzle and glimmer. "It's not just a little uniform you put on to do your sport. It is literally a piece of art," says designer Lisa McKinnon, who has crafted costumes for Team USA skaters Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn and Isabeau Levito, among others in Milan.

'Sinners' Used 287 Prosthetics and 26 Sets of Custom Fangs

variety.com: For the scene, which ends with the sunrise and the annihilation of the vampires, director Ryan Coogler submerged the cast and crew in a Louisiana lake. “There was no room for error,” says the film’s prosthetic makeup designer Michael Fontaine, who spent weeks planning, sculpting and molding castings.

Spanish Olympics Figure Skater Gets Minions Routine Approved

brobible.com: The Winter Olympics don’t officially kick off until Friday, but there’s already been some controversy courtesy of a Spanish figure skater who said he’d been blocked from performing his Minions-themed routine on the world’s biggest stage. Thankfully, it appears reason has prevailed after the internet bullied Universal into backing down from the copyright claim that threatened to derail his trip to Italy.

There’s a reason to get to LAX early: the airport’s concert series

LAist: In my time going to shows in and around L.A., I’ve seen DJ sets all over — in parks, backyards, Thai restaurants, quinceañera venues, plus a few other spots I’m not going to blow up here. But despite being a big Brian Eno fan, seeing a show at an airport was completely new for me, even though LAX puts on concerts and DJ sets about once every couple weeks as part of their “LAX Presents” performance series.

Belgium’s ticket resale ban heads to EU court in challenge that could reshape secondary rules

TicketNews: Belgium’s strict limits on ticket resale are headed for a test at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) after a Brussels court formally decided to send the dispute to Luxembourg — a procedural move that could reverberate well beyond Belgium’s borders.

Olympic figure skating fashion: Behind the costume designs

ESPN: FIGURE SKATING COSTUMES gleam under the lights at Milano Ice Skating Arena at the 2026 Winter Games. With every twizzle, lift and lutz, thousands of sequins and crystals -- often Swarovski -- bedazzle and glimmer. "It's not just a little uniform you put on to do your sport. It is literally a piece of art," says designer Lisa McKinnon, who has crafted costumes for Team USA skaters Alysa Liu, Amber Glenn and Isabeau Levito, among others in Milan.

CODA Audio belongs in Helong

LightSoundJournal.com: The Helong Stadium in Changsha, China is a 55,000-capacity multi-purpose facility, predominantly used for football. Although not home to an individual club, the stadium regularly hosts China’s national team fixtures, as well as large scale music events featuring Chinese and International artists.

L-Acoustics Announces New Global Education Partner Program

ProSoundWeb: L-Acoustics has launched the L-Acoustics Education Partner Program, an initiative designed to bridge the gap between academic audio education and professional practice. The program partners with leading universities worldwide to integrate L-Acoustics professional training and certification into academic curricula, helping to ensure students graduate with both theoretical knowledge and practical, industry-recognized expertise.

Live Nation’s Two‑Front Strategy: Fight Breakup Pressure in D.C. - Rewrite the Rules in the States

TicketNews: A bill advertised as a crackdown on ticket fraud is now headed to the State Senate in California – moving in step with a wave of state-level ticketing proposals targeting multiple aspects of the ticket resale business, from “speculative” ticket listings to outright price caps.

Arcadia review – love, gardening and Euclidian geometry collide in Tom Stoppard’s cosmic masterpiece

Stage | The Guardian: When Tom Stoppard was asked what this play was about, just as it streaked its meteoric path from London to New York in the 1990s, he called it a drama of romance, mathematics, landscape gardening and Byron. It doesn’t quite cover it. Often regarded as his finest, Arcadia is about life, the universe and everything, to borrow a phrase.

Ronald K. Brown Looks Forward and Back as EVIDENCE Turns 40

dancemagazine.com: When Ronald K. Brown was in second grade, he went on a school trip to see Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, returned home, and made his first dance. Seeing his interest, his mother took him to the Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Plaza in their Brooklyn neighborhood for a dance class.

With virtual characters in real life, 'An Ark' experiments with mixed-reality performance

NPR: One of the first plays written for mixed reality recently opened in New York. "An Ark" is about the joys and terrors of being human, and it's all-British cast includes acting royalty Ian McKellen. But if you go to a performance, you will discover that Mr. McKellen and his fellow actors are not actually in the theater with you.

4 Drills That Crushed the Competition in Our Performance Tests

Pro Tool Reviews: There’s a certain excitement in the air on head-to-head testing days in our shop. It’s the payoff from all the hours we spend designing experiments to mimic real-world conditions and build rigs to help control variables. And there are almost always surprises along the way.