Theatre
epub |eng | 2001-02-03 | Author:Judith Thurman [Judith Thurman]

CHAPTER 28 The perversity necessary to satiate an adolescent lover doesn’t devastate a woman sufficiently; on the contrary. Giving becomes a kind of neurosis, of ferocity, an egotistical frenzy. —COLETTE, ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic January 13,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert M. Dowling

Still, Boulton recognized that her compulsive husband had neither the time nor the emotional wherewithal for extramarital affairs—not of a sexual nature, she felt certain, at least not yet.160 “Dirty ...
( Category: Drama December 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-10-22 | Author:Alexandra Jacobs [Alexandra Jacobs]

Self-insulated though she was from the political roiling of the moment, Stritch had to confront, at least, that her version of Manhattan was changing. Walking into another pub, a bunch ...
( Category: Broadway & Musicals December 17,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Enss

Irksome was too mild a word for Lillian’s third marriage. In 1894 she wed a singer, John Haley Augustin Chatterton, who styled himself Signor Giovanni Perugini. Her actress friend, Marie ...
( Category: United States September 3,2019 )
epub |eng | 2003-06-01 | Author:Downer, Lesley [Downer, Lesley]

"An Opium Hallucination of the Far East" Paris Swoons, 1900-1901 Sada Yakko in Paris! No one ever imagined that those Japanese prints, which were so popular that they even made ...
( Category: Women in History July 11,2019 )
epub |eng | 2019-02-17 | Author:Jocelyn Moorhouse

14 A movie is a war. And if you don’t know it’s a war you’re missing something. The war is between the problems, the people with the ideas, and the ...
( Category: Theatre June 11,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Franz Kafka

[Prague, August 1, 1920] Sunday I still don’t know what you’re going to say to the letter of Saturday evening and I won’t know for a long time; in any ...
( Category: German May 21,2019 )
epub |eng | 2016-05-09 | Author:David J. Skal

One half-expected to see witches flying past the chimneypots and people being burned at the stake in Trafalgar Square. People became beasts. Everything that had been progressive and modern in ...
( Category: Horror & Supernatural May 10,2019 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gabriel Hershman

16 STOP THAT TRAIN! Once he’s assumed the disguise, he’s a different man. Tom Courtenay (as Norman) on Finney (as Sir). We don’t like to think of actors’ deaths, but ...
( Category: Theater March 30,2019 )
epub |eng | 2000-01-15 | Author:Peter Hall [Hall, Peter]

Part Three PRIMA LA MUSICA Chapter One When I was twenty-four, I applied to be Carl Ebert’s assistant. I felt that this great opera director, heir to the European tradition ...
( Category: Theatre February 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-01 | Author:Baxter, Meredith [Baxter, Meredith]

Thank God for work. I think I would have lost my mind if I didn't have a place to go to feel valuable, where I could make a contribution, where ...
( Category: Women April 26,2018 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-16 | Author:Rick Elice

Last summer, we were lucky enough to get to work together again on a little musical I wrote with Michael Patrick Walker called Dog and Pony. Roger directed the world ...
( Category: Grief & Bereavement March 16,2018 )
epub |eng | 2015-09-08 | Author:Gary Indiana [Indiana, Gary]

After my breakfast amphetamine and tepid instant Nescafé on Monday mornings, I maneuvered into light Santa Monica Boulevard traffic and headed for the 101, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy ...
( Category: LGBT December 27,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Wojnarowicz

Are photographs just tiny windows looking onto the world, frozen moments of it that lie flat and quiet without sound or smell or movement? Susan Whatsername said something about photographs ...
( Category: LGBT October 15,2017 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-31 | Author:Julian Clary [Julian Clary]

Like the cock on a windless day Grimly pointing out yesterday’s weather, I am old news. A motherless goose, Hatched and blinking by chance at you Yet having no instinct ...
( Category: LGBT September 7,2017 )