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THE HUNGER GAMES: ON STAGE Will Premiere at Specifically-Constructed Venue in London
It appears to be like just like the IP-machine behind The Starvation Video games took discover at how effectively Harry Potter and the Cursed Youngster performed as an enormous theatrical manufacturing. The Starvation Video games: On Stage appears to be like to be an equally staggering manufacturing, with a headline-grabbing bespoke new theater objective constructed for it. Judging from the promo video, a lot of that bespokeness is to accommodate full-theater aerial stunts and motion. Makes me surprise how/if a touring manufacturing could be managed if this proves common.
2025 Winners of the Newbery, Caldecott, King, Belpre & Extra Awards from the American Library Affiliation
The American Library Affiliation administers the 2 most prestigioius awards in kids’s books, The Newberry Medal (for kids’s literature) and The Caldecott Medal (for image books). These winners, together with the opposite kids’s awards the ALA conducts, had been introduced earlier this week. I do know these have meant one thing to my very own guide shopping for throughout my children’ youthful days. The thought happens to me: does the ALA have an award for grownup books? I’m going to look it up instantly after ending this sentence. OK, discovered the reply. And it’s “no.” Fascinating.
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Reflections on 4 Years of Counter Craft