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Was Tallulah a racist? As a Southern woman born in 1902, she had no compunction about dressing up as a Mammy to entertain Stephan Cole, strictly at home in the 1940s. And yet she was enormously active in the integration … Continue reading →

Alexander C. Kaufman at Huffington Post reports on the big change–and it’s getting bigger–they’re throwing at destroying the environmental movement–thus ending the existence of humans on this planet. And Bravi! to those picketing outside the Museum of Natural History this … Continue reading →

Loved seeing them perform in Central Park in 1980. But it wasn’t until a decade later that they penned their definitive paean to adolescense: “We’ll dance in the garden in torn sheets in the rain.”

Then-ABT David Moore was sitting by the Libermans’ pool in Litchfield County ca. 1981. Baryshnikov also was poolside. David couldn’t help studying his boss’s feet up close. He described them “like a little gecco, lizards that have sucking pads on … Continue reading →

The Bros. spent $20 million to buy a tax cut for themselves of over one billion per annum. And I bet they take their penny wrappers to the bank quite often as well. Jon Queally at Common Dreams reports on … Continue reading →

Dr. Alvin Poussaint and Diana Sands, 1968

One of the cast members of the original Hallelujah, Baby! on Broadway recalled star Leslie Uggams: “They would come with a new song: ‘Leslie, we’ve got to have this in the show tomorrow.’ Leslie would have that in the show tomorrow … Continue reading →

Jonathan Swan at Axios demonstrates the way that AG Sessions has thrown any last residue of loyalty to American democracy overboard, as he put the screws on FBI head Wray to fire deputy director McCabe for the alleged crime of … Continue reading →

Exactly fifty years after Diana Sands played Shaw’s Saint Joan at Lincoln Center, Condola Rashad will play her this spring at the Manhattan Theatre Club.

We don’t really believe that decrepit saw that political message and diverting entertainment can’t combine? It should be tossed into the bin of received ideas we all need to de clutter from time to time. Just rediscovered the song “Ask Yourself … Continue reading →