Art and Culture

Pretty cool: “Scholars have identified about 17 distinct broadside editions created in print shops across the colonies in July and August 1776, usually in runs of hundreds of copies.” One was anonymous – but perhaps not anymore.…
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“The story, on two typed and undated manuscripts that appeared to be different drafts, centers on a dinner party hosted at the same table where, earlier in the war, an army surgeon had performed amputations.” – The New York Times…
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“One of his most formative experiences, he said, was seeing Tim Curry in the musical The Rocky Horror Show while in drama school as a teenager. He told The Guardian that it ‘ignited something in my core.’” – The New York Times…
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In case you can’t tune in … – Playbill Source link
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(Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock in the original Broadway production of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, 1949). In a guest essay in the New York Times, former Washington Post theater critic Naveen Kumar writes that…
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Ask Michael Arden what it’s like to mount a new Broadway musical and the “Lost Boys” director will take a beat, then methodically deliver a wry response.“You might as well say, like, ‘Start a new civilization.’”There’s a big reason it…
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Good Morning, The Tony awards last night said a lot about where Broadway’s head is at: more reassurance than risk. Vulture handicapped the field (Vulture) — while the argument that the season has gone soft, “serving up…
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The 1980s promised us two divergent fantasies. One insisted that everybody wanted to rule the world; the other quietly suggested that sweet dreams were made of desire, ambition, consumption, and the frenetic search for…
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This article includes material from HuffPost’s weekly culture and entertainment newsletter, The Culture Catchall. Click here to subscribe.As much as legal restrictions prevented Michael Jackson’s estate from addressing the 1993 child…
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I first met Kanya King in the mid-1990s, when I was still reeling from the failure of my own attempt to target the Black audience via my newspaper, Black Briton. Kanya came along a couple of years later and showed how it should be done.…
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