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Louisville Will Be New Home for International Thespian Festival Beginning in 2027

Playbill: After five years at Indiana University in Bloomington, ITF has outgrown its current venue. Following a search guided by six criteria—mission alignment, safety, accessibility, walkability, affordability, and capacity for growth—Louisville emerged as the next home.

 

Ticketmaster Under Fire: FTC Lawsuit Over Hidden Fees, DOJ Antitrust Case Explained

www.ticketnews.com: Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment are facing an unprecedented one-two punch from U.S. regulators. In one case filed this week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) – along with seven states – accuses Ticketmaster of deceiving consumers with hidden fees and by tacitly enabling scalpers to snag tickets en masse[1].

 

Broadway Climate Summit will debut during Climate Week NYC

www.broadwaynews.com: The inaugural Broadway Climate Summit will take place on Sept. 22. Co-founded by Climate Imaginarium, Earth Era Studios, OneUpAction International and 6th Fest, the summit will be part of the roster of events for Climate Week NYC, the largest climate symposium in the world. Broadway Climate Summit will take place at Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York and Ripley-Grier Studios in Manhattan between 10:30 a.m. and 8:30 p.m.

 

'Cultural coffin': Pittsburgh's thespians and universities react to theater woes

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The three Pittsburgh theater companies exploring a possible merger to help keep the lights on in the face of sharply rising costs have postponed a decision until next year.

 

Remembering Lavina Jadhwani 1983–2025

Chicago Reader: avina Jadhwani built what was by any measure an admirable career on Chicago stages and beyond. Locally, she directed for a range of companies large and small, including Silk Road Rising (now Silk Road Cultural Center), Writers Theatre, Oak Park Festival Theatre, and Rasaka Theatre Company. Nationally, her productions could be seen at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Asolo Repertory Theatre in Florida, and the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Her adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol also graced the Guthrie stage every year starting in 2021 and returns this season.

 

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Caesars Palace Casino Denied Approval to Open in Times Square After Final Vote

www.broadwayworld.com: The bid for a casino to open in Times Square has been denied after a final vote this morning. A community advisory committee denied the plan after a 4-2 vote. A two-thirds majority vote was required for the proposal to advance to consideration by New York State for one of three downstate casino licenses.

 

National Theatre to use home-grown dye in sustainability push

www.thestage.co.uk: The National Theatre has committed to using natural dye for all its future productions, which it will make from plants grown in its newly launched well-being garden. The venue says the innovation marks a "clear statement" of its intention to improve its sustainability and "future-proof" its work in accordance with recommendations laid out in the Theatre Green Book.

 

The big-screen gamble: How movie theaters are fighting to stay alive

Salon.com: It’s a lonely life, being a superfan of Judd Apatow’s 2015 romantic comedy, “Trainwreck.” When the film, starring and written by Amy Schumer, opened in July of that year, it was lauded by critics and audiences as a refreshing take on a well-tread genre. “Trainwreck” even overperformed at the box office, raking in cash well beyond initial estimates.

 

CMU Alumni Emmy Winners Showcase Steady Results of Arts Excellence

News - Carnegie Mellon University: Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Drama empowers students to balance technical precision and artistic expression with its consistent influence on society and culture, evident most recently at the 77th Emmy Awards.

 

Work Visa Issues Threatening Music Artist Careers, Support Networks

www.billboard.com: Just a day before his sold-out show at the AT&T Stadium in Texas, regional Mexican star Julión Álvarez posted an “urgent” announcement on his social media, informing the 50,000 fans who purchased a ticket to the May 24-dated show that it was cancelled.

 

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The 1/52 Project Reveals Twelve 2025 Early Career Designer Recipients

www.broadwayworld.com: The 1/52 Project, the financial grant program founded by Tony Award-winning set designer Beowulf Boritt, revealed the twelve early-career designer recipients selected for the 2025 cycle to benefit from $165,000.00 in grants.

 

These Theatre Kids Won the Fight Against Proposed Anti-Arts Measures at an Arizona School Board Meeting

Playbill: Arts educators and advocates successfully killed a proposed move in Arizona's Peoria Unified school district to bar arts educators from renewing memberships in their professional associations, including but not limited to the Educational Theatre Association, National Association for Music Education, National Dance Education Organization, and National Art Education Association.

 

Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”

Ars Technica: At a hearing Monday, US District Judge William Alsup blasted a proposed $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic's rampant piracy of books to train AI. The proposed settlement comes in a case where Anthropic could have owed more than $1 trillion in damages after Alsup certified a class that included up to 7 million claimants whose works were illegally downloaded by the AI company.

 

Oklahoma AG on the First Amendment and Drag Shows

Reason.com: Such drag shows are protected unless they fit within the (fairly narrow) category of obscenity, which is limited to certain material that depicts sexual conduct (not just cross-dressing).

 

Welcome to the Creator Revolution

Guest Column - TheWrap: When a single YouTube video commands more views than a blockbuster premiere, when a TikTok Creator can launch a global trend overnight and when communities once overlooked by Hollywood are finding their voices through creators, it’s clear that a new level of opportunity for the entertainment industry has been unlocked. Creators are expanding the industry’s reach and helping to reshape its future (literally!), and the impact they are having is undeniable and transformative.

 

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Corporation for Public Broadcasting to Get TV Academy Governors Award

variety.com: As it prepares to shut down after nearly 60 years of service, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will be honored with one of the Television Academy‘s top prizes, the 2025 Governors Award. The news is bittersweet, as it comes following President Trump’s move kill federal funding for public media.

 

Taylor Sheridan, Paramount establish massive production hub in Texas

Reel 360 News: Taylor Sheridan, the creative force behind Yellowstone, Tulsa King, and Landman, has teamed up with Paramount Television and real estate developer Hillwood to launch Texas’s largest-ever film and TV production campus in Fort Worth.

 

Climbing the Ladder: Theater Women on Learning and Leading by Sonya Hayden

WIT journal: In an industry built on relationships and where the steps to building a career can feel murky, mentorship is essential. This is particularly true for women, who remain underrepresented in many fields across the theater industry, as documented by various organizations including RISE Theatre’s network partners and The Lillys. Sometimes all we need is someone to open a door, show us that a door exists, answer a question, or encourage us to send that cold email.

 

Hackers Threaten to Submit Artists' Data to AI Models If Art Site Doesn't Pay Up

www.404media.co: Artists&Clients is a website that connects independent artists with interested clients. Around August 30, a message appeared on Artists&Clients attributed to the ransomware group LunaLock. “We have breached the website Artists&Clients to steal and encrypt all its data,” the message on the site said, according to screenshots taken before the site went down on Tuesday.

 

Sign of Inclusivity: 'Another Kind of Silence' at City

onstagepittsburgh.com: It was no exaggeration when City Theatre announced that Another Kind of Silence, the world-premiere play that leads off its 2025-2026 season, “is one of the most ambitious shows the company has taken on.” Bilingual and bicultural, the plot unfolds simultaneously in English and American Sign Language (ASL), along with some Greek Sign Language, as Evan and Chap, two already-partnered queer women, cross paths in modern-day Greece and find themselves falling in love.

 

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Pittsburgh Public Theater, City Theatre & CLO to join forces to survive

90.5 WESA: The years since the pandemic shutdown have been especially difficult for nonprofit performing-arts groups, in terms of both selling tickets and raising funds. On Friday, three of Pittsburgh’s most venerable troupes announced they are looking into ways they might join forces to survive.

 

2,400 People Sign Letter Decrying Maybe Happy Ending Casting Decision

Playbill: Maybe Happy Ending's decision to replace lead actor Darren Criss with Andrew Barth Feldman has continued to provoke responses throughout the theatre community. The latest: an open letter written by Tony Award winner BD Wong and signed by over 2,400 people, many of them theatre artists, including two-time Tony winner Donna Murphy, and Tony winners Francis Jue, Ruthie Ann Miles, and Ali Stroker.

 

Safety Commission Drops Planned Consumer Table Saw Rule

Engineering News-Record: Efforts by safety advocates to make table saws safer for all uses and projects—with an automatic brake that senses the difference between a finger and wood and stops cutting—have entered a new phase. On August 20, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) withdrew its pending rule requiring sensor-activated brakes that had advanced under the Biden administration.

 

The problem with Auschwitz-Birkenau’s new digital camp replica

theconversation.com: At this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum announced the launch of a new digital replica of the concentration camp for filmmakers. Titled Picture from Auschwitz, the virtual film location is designed to facilitate a range of productions set on the grounds, where preservation regulations currently restrict filming to documentaries.

 

White House Lists Smithsonian Exhibits It Finds Objectionable

The New York Times: The White House published a list of Smithsonian exhibits, programming and artwork it considered objectionable on Thursday, one week after announcing that eight of the institution’s museums must submit their current wall text and future exhibition plans for a comprehensive review.