"Woodbury and her artistic partner, Shirley Ririe, formed Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in 1964, when they both taught dance at the University of Utah. … Woodbury and Ririe — along with Repertory Dance Theatre’s Linda Smith and Ballet West’s Bené Arnold — are credited with giving birth to professional dance in Utah." - The Salt Lake Tribune
Garrett worked at Knopf, "initially as an editor and special assistant to Alfred Knopf himself, who had a strong devotion to publishing history books. At first she steered his projects to completion, but she soon began acquiring books on her own." - The New York Times
"The 22-second ad, posted on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, ... used real footage of Johansson to generate a fake image and dialogue." - The Guardian (UK)
"(The) esteemed Soviet-born conductor rebuilt the once-storied St. Petersburg Philharmonic after the collapse of communism and led the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra for seven inspired years at the turn of the 21st century." - MSN (The Washington Post)
One of his hallmark offerings at Harvard was a class called Rep Ideal, in which he held forth on how a permanent company of actors could forge a bond between the institution and a community. Nothing else, he said, could create such a flexible acting instrument. - The New Yorker
"A movie star in the 1980s (Dune, Blade Runner, No Way Out), Young saw her career derailed by the mid-1990s. She refused to play certain Hollywood games … (and) played other games too enthusiastically. … (The industry) had branded her as volatile, difficult, even crazy." - The New York Times
“He was also born at the right time to be a multimedia superstar. Louis was there for acoustic recordings in 1923. After accompanying silent movies, he then made pioneering appearances in film, radio, and television. In many cases, he was the first African American to have featured billing in these new industries. - The Nation
"It comes as more of one that Winkler is, by his own admission, constantly scared, easily wounded, riddled with self-doubt, perpetually self-involved, childish, cheap, unforgiving and petty. … Winkler doesn’t so much nurse a grudge as midwives one — if necessary, for eternity." - MSN (The Washington Post)
Suddenly, this story broke and everything we believed about her was called into question. There was no warning and no sensitivity to the impact it would have on Indigenous peoples. This is not how reconciliation is done. - The Conversation
"A forbiddingly erudite theorist who was also an in-the-arena practitioner, ... he had an uncompromising vision of what theater should be and no shortage of platforms to promote that vision. He used them all with gusto, making waves, careers, and more than a few enemies in the process." - MSN (The Boston Globe)
Merlin originated the role of Tzeitel in Fiddler, and starred in Beckett with Sir Laurence Olivier - but after she left the stage to raise her children, Hal Prince called her up for a new role: Broadway casting director. - The New York Times
After fleeing Czechoslovakia following the 1968 Soviet invasion, he made an international career. He was music director/chief conductor of the Cologne Radio Symphony (1970-74), the NDR Radiphilharmonie in Hannover (1980-1983), the Milwaukee Symphony (1986-1995), New Jersey Symphony (1993-2002), and, in a triumphant return to his homeland, the Czech Philharmonic (2003-2007). - NJArts.net
