Generations of Broadway legends have played the role of Dolly, and Peters is (more than) up for it now: “When I took on the role, though, I just — I started from scratch. I read the script, I read The Matchmaker — the play that Mike Stewart wrote [Hello, Dolly!] from — and I found this person, this woman. I found the woman that I would play in it, the Dolly I would play.”
Author: ArtsJournal2
Who Should Profit From A Prisoner’s Book Deal?
Curtis Dawkins is serving a life term for a murder he committed. When Scribner offered him $150,000 for a book of short stories, he put the money in a savings account for his children – but now Michigan’s prison system is suing him to pay for his imprisonment.
Weinstein Company Fires Its President And COO ‘For Cause’
The company won’t say what the “cause” is against David Glasser, but “Glasser came under fire this week after the New York attorney general’s office sued the studio, alleging civil rights violations.”
When Writer Hanif Kureishi Finally Starts Watching Binge-Worthy TV, He Just Can’t Stop
The writer, screenwriter, and playwright says, “The television show is ideal for the exploration of character under pressure because of its duration. I recently watched all 86 episodes of The Sopranos, followed by all of Breaking Bad; then I did Gomorrah. I would happily have watched more.”
The Organs That Power Broadway
These two organs are being replaced, for good reason: “‘It is soul-numbing to play that thing,’ Mr. Wachner, the church’s hard-driving director of music and arts, said of the digital instrument in Trinity Church, on Lower Broadway. He also called the Schlicker pipe organ, long resident in St. Paul’s Chapel, Trinity’s historic satellite a few blocks north, ‘tendinitis central.'”
Malls Not Only Aren’t Terrible, But They Saved The Suburbs From Themselves
Look, they were just better than sprawl. Truly. “The mall is for shopping. It sounds idiotic to say, or tautological at least. Of course the mall is for shopping. But more specifically, it gives shopping a specific place. The mall separated commerce into its own, private lair, and it did so just as commercialism was running rampant and out of control in the progress-fueled mid-century.”
André Harvey, Who Sculpted The Natural World, Has Died At 76
After working in other careers and getting inspired by sculptures he saw through a window in Paris, “Mr. Harvey became a masterly sculptor of intricately detailed, realistic bronze figures whose works were exhibited by Tiffany & Company in its Fifth Avenue flagship store, have been collected by museums, and were purchased by Henry Fonda, Jamie Wyeth, Barry Manilow and Danielle Steel.”
Why Is U.S. Culture Still So Obsessed With Zombies?
Author Justina Ireland has a theory: “Every day is a new and terrible terror coming at you from the news, and it’s just nonstop. … I think people are feeling overwhelmed. And that’s a great metaphor for a zombie invasion. Like, that is the iconic scene for a zombie invasion, a horde coming to overwhelm a town or a mall or a handful of survivors.”
Children’s Publishing May Be 80 Percent Female, But It’s Having An Intense Me Too Moment
The accusations (anonymous at first) sparked an intense discussion as “at an awkward moment for the industry, which had gathered Monday at the American Library Association’s midwinter meeting in Denver to announce its most coveted awards for children and young adult literature.” Agents, editors, and publishing houses dropped some of the most famous male authors in young adult literature as the week went on.
Black Panther Didn’t Just Have Special Spaceship And Set And Costume Design, But A Jewelry Designer As Well
Jewelry designer Douriean Fletcher met costume designer Ruth E. Carter by chance, twice – the second time when she was playing an extra and getting a costume fitting on the set of “Roots,” designed by Carter. “‘At first, I didn’t even recognize her,’ Carter said recently. ‘But when I did, I told her to take off her costume and get to work creating pieces on my show.'”