The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #133: Jake Shears
“I wrote this book. I worked really, really hard on it, and I was a little scared by it.”
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Posts Tagged: Broadway
Swinging Modern Sounds #77: People Give Me Things, Part One
[T]he thing about receiving music from other people is this: there is always some grace associated with the transaction.
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Five Stages of Prince Fandom
You don’t need to know him personally, you say. You get the best of Prince through his music. Maybe that’s the truth, and maybe it isn’t.
...moreAaron Sorkin’s Mockingbird
In an announcement that is equal parts completely expected and narrow-eyes-tilted-head inducing, Aaron Sorkin will adapt Harper Lee’s beloved classic To Kill a Mockingbird for the stage, to be directed by Barlett Sher. Hopefully without Sorkinisms.
...moreExploring Hamilton
Lauretta Charlton delves into Hamilton: The Revolution, the book based off of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s popular Broadway musical, Hamilton. Theater critic and author of the book, Jeremy McCarter, discusses the unique characteristics of the book: We knew from the beginning that the book ought to evoke Hamilton’s era, and one of the really distinctive things about books […]
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Sound & Vision: Shannon Conley
Hard-rocking artist Shannon Conley talks to Allyson McCabe about the exceptional more-than-a-tribute band Lez Zeppelin, her unconventional upbringing by Hindu Baptists, and her role as Yitzhak in Hedwig and the Angry Inch.
...moreA Play on a Painting
Take a trip to the Los Angeles Review of Books to find out how Chagall inspired the longest-running show on Broadway.
...moreNow Be Donna McKechnie
You think writers have it tough. Actors are all outward, public, on display. They don’t have words to hide behind. Every Little Step, a documentary directed by James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, is meta-theatre at its best, a film about dancers struggling through auditions for the 2006 Broadway revival of A Chorus Line.
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