“‘We have to mix,’ he says. The 39-year-old playwright grew up the son of Moroccan immigrants in Brussels. His comedy Djihad, about young Belgians going off to fight in Syria and becoming disillusioned along the way, has been playing to sold-out audiences for more than a year now.” (includes audio)
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Like Many Former Actors, The Writer Of ‘The Waitress’ Understands The Show’s Subject On A Visceral Level
“At a moment when the question of female creative representation has come to a head, Nelson offers a template for how some of those issues could be solved, if also a less-than-overt interest in being a poster child for the cause.”
The Violin Thief Who Stole A Strad And Got Away With It
“The fact that Johnson could play the instrument publicly is less a show of daring than a symbol of how far he had fallen. The hotshot violinist, once a standout, was so anonymous that he could play a stolen Stradivarius – and no one noticed.”
Kathryn Reed Altman Kept The Archives, And The Flame Of Her Husband’s Artistic Legacy, Alive
“Altman became her husband’s indispensable amanuensis, uncredited on the screen but indelibly helpful on the set, where she was a smoother of feathers, a personal connector among the various layers of personnel, a social director at gatherings that followed the viewing of dailies. She was also a keeper of the Altman history.”
A New Movie Brings Nora Ephron’s Hilarity And Toughness Briefly Back To Life
“At the screening I attended, Jacob Bernstein said the thing that surprised him, going back through his mother’s work, was ‘how many people she whacked.’ I have wondered, reading and re-reading Ephron, if she always knew she was whacking them.”
She Wasn’t Just The Topless Cellist: Restoring Charlotte Moorman To Her Place In The Post-War Avant-Garde
“Why are Charlotte Moorman’s contributions … so underappreciated and relatively unknown today? … Because she was a woman, because she was married, because she was naked, because she was a performing artist with a ‘repertoire’ rather than a ‘practice'” … ?
Pianist’s Husband Convicted Of Her Murder On Their Second Anniversary
Natalia Strelchenko, 38, “died shortly after being assaulted in her home by John Martin in August last year. … A Home Office postmortem examination found Strelchenko had died from head and neck injuries.”
Cliburn Winner’s Daughters Murdered, Wife Stabbed
“Vadym Kholodenko stopped Thursday morning at the home where he formerly lived to pick up Nika, 5, and 1-year-old Michela, Benbrook police Cmdr. David Babcock said. The Ukrainian-born musician found his wife, Sofya Tsygankova, in an “extreme state of distress” and discovered the dead girls. The pianist then called 911, police said.”
The Dancer Who Fought Lyme Disease To Dance Again
“There was a tingling sensation moving up my arm and into the neck and ear that affected my balance. But I still thought it could be some kind of whiplash or concussion-related thing.”
‘She Was Less Like A Recluse, More Like A Bomb Going Off’ – The Real Emily Dickinson
“She was promiscuous in her own fashion, deceiving everyone around her with the sly masks she wore. She was faithful to no one but her dog. Her white dress was one more bit of camouflage, to safeguard the witchery of her craft. … Cotton Mather would have burned her for a witch.”