“16. Old ladies!
Lois Smith, who has been acting on Broadway since 1952, … is having a golden age of her own at 85, and she’s not the only one. … We’ve got Phylicia Rashad, Linda Lavin, Judith Light, and even Cicely Tyson showing up year in, year out.”
Author: Matthew Westphal
More Proof That Choral Singing Is Really Good For You
“The synchronistic physical activity of choristers appears to create an unusually strong bond, giving members the emotionally satisfying experience of temporarily ‘disappearing’ into a meaningful, coherent body.”
Julie Kent Has Big Plans For Washington Ballet
“On Kent’s dream list of ballets to add to the repertoire are works by English, Russian and American masters, such as Frederick Ashton, Alexei Ratmansky and Martha Graham. She aims to group them into programs by their nationality, to explore ‘the similarities, and what makes an English or a Russian masterpiece, and the chronologies.'”
Looted Antiquities Found In Refugee Tent In Europe
“Three ancient Mesopotamian sculptures, thought to have been excavated illegally in Syria or Iraq, have been found in a Slovenian refugee camp on the border with Croatia, police said on Wednesday.”
Actor Stops Play With Four-Letter Counterattack On Heckler
“[The actor] was heard to say: ‘I won’t bother telling you the story because this c*** in the front row has ruined it for everybody.'”
Watching A Violinist’s Brain At Work
“Laying motionless on her back in the MRI machine while her brain activity was being measured, [Jennifer] Koh was asked to imagine playing a series of classical works for solo violin by Paganini and Bach, to listen to them, or to read their musical scores. [Dr.] Overath then studied how Koh’s brain reacted to each.”
When Compulsive Punning Is An Actual Brain Disorder
“A few people develop a compulsive urge to crack jokes 24 hours a day, with a medical condition called Witzelsucht. Why does it happen?”
Depravity At The Paris Opera, Courtesy Of Bret Easton Ellis
The author of American Psycho, Less Than Zero, and countless ill-advised tweets has scripted and directed a video for the company’s Troisième Scène with a, um, singular riff on The Barber of Seville.
Ta-Nehisi Coates , From Writing Journalism To Writing Marvel Comics
“But when all the fantasy and reverie faded, and the time to actually write Black Panther came, those principles turned out to be not as primary as I’d thought.”
Naná Vasconcelos, Brazil’s Great Percussionist, Dead At 71
“A master of the berimbau, a single-string, multi-toned Afro-Brazilian instrument, he is best known for collaborations with Brazilians Milton Nascimento and Egberto Gismonti, Argentine Gato Barbieri and Americans Don Cherry and Pat Metheny.”