“Her career was inescapably defined by her marriage, at the age of 20, to the director Peter Brook, with whom she worked many times in productions of Shakespeare, Chekhov, Anouilh and Beckett. She was also a vital part of Brook’s experimental, theatrical work in Paris, Persia (as Iran then was) and the villages of Africa. But Parry also had an independent career in films that marked her out as a fine screen actor.”
How Al Hirschfeld Captured That Certain Something About His Subjects
Hirschfeld archivist David Leopold: “He always felt that we all have this ability to recognize a friend from the back, a block away, wearing an overcoat. He didn’t know how we do that. But he was always going for that telling gesture, that arch of the eyebrow.”
‘An Evening in the Theater (Patti LuPone Just Stole My F@#king Cell Phone)’
That’s the title of a song – written from the point of view of that unwise woman in the audience – recently posted to YouTube by composer Robert Maggio and lyricist Matthew Hardy. “I hope she doesn’t open my iTunes / My recording of Gypsy is Bernadette / And my Evita is Madonna / If she sees it, she’ll be really upset.”
All-Male Licensing Board Gives British Film About A Teen Girl’s Sexual Awakening A Rating That Means Teens Can’t See It
“If you’re a teenage girl that wants to have sex, there’s still this thing of feeling like a freak because everything you’ve ever read or seen tells you – you shouldn’t want it.”
Reality TV Plus Gender Transition Equals A Surprisingly Thoughtful Show About Caitlyn Jenner
But of course, it’s still (deeply) manipulative: “Performance isn’t inherently bad — even documentaries are works of artifice. But when the mission is to humanize a group of people, credibility counts. Jenner, at one point, wonders whether some of her kids and stepkids haven’t yet visited her because they secretly disapprove of her transition. But the viewer may wonder right back at her whether their absence was planned, so that emotional meet-and-greets could later take place on camera.”
A Celebrated Director Of The Stratford (Canada) Shakespeare Festival Has Died
Robin Phillips “served as artistic director of the festival from 1975 to 1980, where his imaginative scope and meticulous attention to detail inspired a next generation of actors and lured big names like Maggie Smith to the Canadian stage.”
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There Is No ‘Correct Actor’s Body,’ Despite Years Of Theatre Mythos
“The actor’s body, or rather its ideal form, is a lie. It is an imaginary by-product of a culture that tries to value certain bodies over others.”
The World Of Competitive Music Lessons For Kids
“Music, at least in terms of noodling around on the piano, strumming a guitar or trying out new things on the violin, actually hardly features in the struggle. Typically, this is all about grades, age and a formal classical instrument, a trio which is locked together in a pressurised algorithm calculated to result in a place at a youth orchestra or decent secondary school.”
An American Soprano On The Proms
“America doesn’t have anything like this. It’s the envy of the world.”
Operation Hidden Idol: The Pursuit Of The Most Ambitious Antiquities Smuggler In American History
How Subhash Kapoor allegedly got stolen treasures out of India and (for hefty prices) into collections all over the globe – and how U.S. and Indian authorities finally caught him.
The Contraband Circuit: How A 1,000-Year-Old Statue Traveled From A Small Tamil Temple To A Park Avenue Penthouse
An infographic traces the route, complete with decoy statues, fake documents and money transfers.
Requests For Personal Advice, Gifts Of Cookies, Empty Chairs, And Someone Begging For David Sedaris’s Phone Number: Authors Tells Tales Of Book Tours
Junot Díaz, Gary Shteyngart, Nell Zink, Sloane Crosley, Tayari Jones, and John Scalzi recount memorable encounters.
The Most Unlikely Hedwig Yet Is About To Strut Onto Broadway
That’s Taye Diggs – yes, the guy who gave Stella her groove back. “Hold up, though – is this not madness? Black America’s most eligible bachelor is about to play a glammed-out Teutonic genderqueer mash-up of Nico and Axl Rose?”