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☆ 7 Decades Later, Arthur Miller’s ‘The Hook’ Comes Home to Brooklyn
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Rose Adams | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On a barge in Red Hook, Brooklyn, dockworkers chant against their corrupt union boss. “We’re striking this ship!” yells the group’s leader. This is a scene from Brave New World Repertory Theater’s production of “The Hook,” the first American staging of an adapted Arthur Miller screenplay. The show, which opens at the Waterfront Museum on Friday, follows Marty, a longshoreman in 1950 who fights against the union corruption that controlled Red Hook’s waterfront. Now the show returns to the neighborhood in which it is set, staged aboard a docked ship straight from Panto’s time.

Persons: “, ”, Arthur Miller, Marty, Miller, Pete Panto, Claire Beckman Organizations: Waterfront Museum Locations: Red Hook , Brooklyn

☆ That’s the Funny Thing About Grief
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-17 | by ( Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Either way, there’s no question that in certain quarters of comedy, jokes are not enough. For instance, at shows around New York, the quirky, swaggering Gastor Almonte has been performing a hilarious 10 to 15 minutes about his hatred of oatmeal. In a previous era that might have added up to a debut special that resembled the work of Jim Gaffigan. “What is trauma but unmonetized content?” he asks, echoing a line from “WandaVision,” a series that itself is a grief narrative. “We don’t talk about grief: We keep our grief to ourselves,” Kayne says in “Sorry for Your Loss.” Glazer hit this same theme.

☆ An Unsigned Postcard Named Four Family Members Who Died in the Holocaust. Why?
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-15 | by ( Laura Cappelle | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

By the time she started work on “The Postcard,” Berest had plenty of experience with biography. Together with an associate, she founded Porte-Plume, a niche press that specializes in ghostwritten family biographies and corporate books. “I’d always been attracted to the past, and I loved this job,” Berest said. Myriam, Berest’s grandmother, had married their son, Vincente, and survived the war with help from the Picabia clan. “It means that even people who were murdered pass things on to their children, to their grandchildren.”

☆ Judge Temporarily Blocks Tennessee Law That Restricts Drag Performances
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Emily Cochrane | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

NASHVILLE — A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked the implementation of a Tennessee law aimed at restricting public drag performances, hours before it was set to go into effect. A Memphis theater company that frequently stages drag performances, Friends of George’s, challenged the law this week, arguing that the ambiguity of the law violated the theater’s constitutional rights. Violators of the law would be charged with a misdemeanor, or a felony for continued offenses. The measure, passed by the Republican-dominated legislature and signed into law on March 1, was set to go into effect on Saturday. community, had raised concerns about the implications for drag performers and transgender and gender-nonconforming people.

☆ Alvin Ailey Dance Theater’s New Moves
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-14 | by ( Robert Greskovic | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

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☆ Tosca Musk, Elon’s sister, has a business venture of her own – and it’s all about romance and female sexuality
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Faith Karimi Cnn Photographs Austin Steele | Faith Karimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

It’s their first public film premiere since the pandemic started. Musk, 48, is the force behind Passionflix, which adapts romance novels into movies and streams them to a devoted niche audience. “Passionflix focuses on adapting romance novels exactly as the fan and the author envision it,” Musk says in a separate CNN interview. From left to right: Tosca Musk, Kimbal Musk, mother Maye Musk and Elon Musk at Maye's 50th birthday party in 1998. One of the founding members, she says she spent the pandemic years curled up on her couch, watching Passionflix movies.

This fall, Ross made history as the first trans woman to ever play a leading role on Broadway. He added that Ross’ debut in the long-running American musical “opens the door to full acceptance” for the transgender community. “Black theater artists are asking for white American theater to see us and consider us in producing work,” Jackson said. The Black Theatre Coalition said it aimed “to remove the ‘ILLUSION OF INCLUSION’ in the American Theatre,” by combating racism and providing more work opportunities for Black artists, according to the group’s mission statement. “I hope there’s an Angelica Ross backstage, whether that’s in stage management, whether that’s in front of the house,” he said.

☆ Jimmy Kimmel apologizes to Quinta Brunson for ‘dumb comedy bit’ at Emmys
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-15 | by ( Sandra Gonzalez | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +2 min

But Jimmy Kimmel did take some time during Quinta Brunson’s appearance on his late-night talk show Wednesday to apologize for what he called a “dumb comedy bit” that some viewers felt took away from her Emmy victory on Monday. “People said I stole your moment,” Kimmel told Brunson. He remained there throughout Brunson’s acceptance speech and into the commercial break, nearly two minutes in total. Kimmel remained out of the camera’s frame for the duration of Brunson’s speech, which lasted roughly one minute. I’m going to be on his show on Wednesday, so I might punch him in the face,” she joked.

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