Biography is a documentary television series. Originally produced by CBS in 1962 and hosted by Mike Wallace, the A&E Network later re-ran it and has produced new episodes since 1987. The series has featured biographies on such people as Elvis Presley, Pl
The Shakespeare Guild's 2014-15 season will open with a conversation that will launch the U.S. author tour for a biography that actress Helen Mirren calls 'a masterpiece about a genius.' Only John Lahr, she says, 'with his perceptions about the theater, about writers, about poetry, and about people,...
Steppenwolf Theatre Company Artistic Director Martha Lavey engages in conversation with John Lahr about his latest book, Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh in a special one-night-only event on Monday, October 13 at 7pm in the Downstairs Theatre....
Marvel's The Avengers, which hit theaters in 2012, is one of the highest-grossing movies of all time. However, according to Business Insider, it didn't seem like the movie would be so successful during the production stages. It took several drafts and the help of many different individuals to get...
A new collection of sheet music celebrating composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa is now available to order....
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Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce an additional two weeks of performances of the World Premiere of Days Like Today, inspired by the plays of Charles L. Mee with music and lyrics by Alan Schmuckler and book by Laura Eason, directed by Artistic Dire...
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Arthur Gelb, the much beloved Managing Editor of The New York Times, a champion of theater coverage there as early as the 1950s and beyond, and co-author, with his wife Barbara, of a massive three-volume biography of American playwright Eugene O'Neill, is celebrated in the CUNY TV rebroadcast of a 1...
Arthur Gelb, the much beloved Managing Editor of The New York Times, a champion of theater coverage there as early as the 1950s and beyond, and co-author, with his wife Barbara, of a massive three-volume biography of American playwright Eugene O'Neill, is celebrated in the CUNY TV rebroadcast of a 1...
Artistic Director Michael Halberstam and Executive Director Kathryn M. Lipuma announce Writers Theatre's World Premiere production of Days Like Today, inspired by the plays of Charles L. Mee with music and lyrics by Alan Schmuckler and book by Laura Eason, directed by Artistic Director Michael Halbe...
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Celebrity biographer Randy Jernigan has been contracted to write a series of 'fan books' for his publisherthe first to be spotlighted in the series is Harry Potter actor, Daniel Radcliffe. The book is expected to cover Radcliffe's early childhood years, little known facts about the actors private...
Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) will present the original one man show TruthPaste: A Blotto Biography. The show, created by and starring MET Artistic Director Tad Janes, made its World Premiere at MET last March to high praise. In DC Metro Arts' five star review Mike Spain wrote, 'Truthpaste: A B...
Maryland Ensemble Theatre (MET) will present the original one man show TruthPaste: A Blotto Biography. The show, created by and starring MET Artistic Director Tad Janes, made its World Premiere at MET last March to high praise. In DC Metro Arts' five star review Mike Spain wrote, 'Truthpaste: A B...
In 'Moses, the Ten Commandments, and Me,' Reverend and author Hal H. Eaton re-excavates the familiar turf of the Ten Commandments to highlight their undeniable relevance to modern lives, illuminating the writing of Moses within the contexts of language, history, and Moses' life experiences....
University Press of Kentucky title, Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South by Catherine Fosl, was chosen to be presented to the recipients of the 2014 University of Louisville Yarmuth Book Award. The award, which began in 1987, recognizes Kentuck...
Author Catherine Nixon Cooke transports readers across continents and cultures, offering a unique glimpse of 20th-century Mexico in her new biography 'The Thistle and the Rose: Romance, Railroads, and Big Oil in Revolutionary Mexico' (published by iUniverse)....
Minnesota Opera will announce its 52nd anniversary season on Thursday, February 20, at3pm. For the first time in the company's history, we will do so via a live stream, which can be watched at mnop.co/live....
Today, the shortlist is announced for the Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography, now in its sixth year -- the contenders are......
In an amazing re-imagination of King David's time and place, Lynny Harris provides modern readers with a new, proto-feminist heroine in Bathsheba, David's wife through adultery, who gave King Solomon birth and is the narrator of Harris' new novel 'Midbar III.' Focusing on the psychological dimension...
Bill Robinson - 'Mr. Bojangles' - is a name synonymous with tap dancing. He invented the 'stair dance,' starred in movies and on Broadway, broke the color barrier for dancers in vaudeville and performed for kings and presidents. His career in American dance was unprecedented. Even today, those unfam...
The film features 'Hall as a young widow unable to move on after the death of her husband, an acclaimed musician and the subject of a biography she's struggling to write. She teams with a brash New York academic (Sudeikis) who has an entirely different take on her husband's life, and death, as they ...
With consummate skill, psychotherapist Alma Bond takes readers on a whirlwind tour of the life and loves of Marilyn Monroe and mid-century Hollywood. Marilyn Monroe: On the Couch (Bancroft Press) is a fictionalized biography from a unique and revealing perspective: the couch of a renowned New York p...
This new work guides readers along a metaphysical path as the author explores the life of one of the most venerated Sufi poets and saints, Hazrat Sultan Bahu. 'The Spirit of a Sultan' is a new novel based on the true life accounts of Sufi reverend, poet, and saint, Sultan Bahu. A historical biogr...
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