…els (Anything Goes, Les Miserables), who will play Clara. As previously reported, Norm Lewis (Sondheim on Sondheim, Side Show, Les Miserables) will star as Porgy opposite four-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald (Ragtime, Marie Christine, Master Class) as Bess. They are joined by two-time Tony nominee David Alan Grier (The First, Race, Dreamgirls) as Sportin’ Life and Tony nominee Joshua Henry (The Scottsboro Boys) as Jake. A.R.T. art…
…s so good.’ This project reminded me to stop and smell the roses, to look around outside and really see what I’d done.” Ledisi, who recently wowed at the BET Awards with a masterful tribute to the late Teena Marie, has said that recording the album was therapy for her. “I’ve been so happy with the response so far,” she said. “I’m hoping that the project will draw younger audiences into the fold with…
LONDON (Reuters) – If the film “The Social Network” lifted the veil on the ingenuity and intrigue behind Internet networking, the opera “Two Boys” which had its premiere on Friday focuses on what it’s like to be trapped inside the web. Over the span of 110 minutes, American composer Nico Muhly and librettist Craig Lucas take the audience and the main character, detective Anne Strawson, sung by English soprano Susan…
…ther a figurative nor an abstract artist, “just brilliant,” and his decorative ceiling as a “magnificent work… to mark his great fondness for France.” The Louvre’s contemporary art curator Marie-Laure Bernadac also paid tribute, describing Twombly as “not just a great artist but a wonderful man.” “I am shattered by the news of his death,” she said. “We have lost a tremendous per…
PARIS – Former Dior designer John Galliano took the stand Wednesday and testified that he remembers nothing about allegedly using anti-Semitic slurs at a Paris cafe because of his “triple addiction” to alcohol, barbiturates and sleeping pills. The 50-year-old designer apologized for spouting an anti-Semitic diatribe in a separate incident captured in video, posted on the Internet and shown to the court, saying these are not his views…
…Yeardley Smith (“The Simpsons”) is 47. Keyboardist-guitarist Kevin Hearn of Barenaked Ladies is 42. Singer Tonia Tash of Divine is 32. Actor Grant Rosenmeyer (“Oliver Beene”) is 20. July 4: Actress Eva Marie Saint is 87. Actress Gina Lollobrigida is 84. Playwright Neil Simon is 84. Singer Bill Withers is 73. Actress Karolyn Grimes (Zuzu in “It’s a Wonderful Life”) is 71. Percussionist Ralph Johnson of Ear…