February 2012
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New Lincoln Center opens at Ford's Theatre →
The theater where President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated is preparing to open a new museum and education center in downtown Washington to explore the 16th president’s life and lasting legacy.
The Ford’s Theatre Center for Education and Leadership has been constructed in a building across from the famous theater and next door to the rowhouse where Lincoln died. The new museum is part of a $60...
"Mythology and Folklore" →
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7 of Grimm's Fairy Tales That Would Make Great... →
Do we shape stories, or do stories shape us? After going through much of my mammoth collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales, I think it’s more often the latter. Fairy Tales, in their original non-Disneyesque glory, are dark and disturbing morality tales that have as much relevance today as they did when the Grimm brothers first started collecting them. Many of our ideas about horror, super...
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“EVIDENCE
By Vivian Vande Velde
If the coach turned back into a pumpkin
And...”
– From Tales From The Brothers Grimm And The Sisters Weird.
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What is a fairy tale, anyway?
MAGIC KINGDOMSby ADAM GOPNIK
New Yorker Issue of 2002-12-09
At the sand-logged, mildewy tail end of a beach vacation, four exhausted parents take two seven-year-olds to a rainy-day play, “The Fairy Tale Detective”: the tales of the Three Bears and Hansel and Gretel and Red Riding Hood, retold as though in a film noir, complete with raincoated detectives and lynx-eyed blondes. Puzzled...
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This Time It's Crosswords (Not Cross Words) That... →
This Time It’s Crosswords (Not Cross Words) That Surface From Sondheim
By PATRICK HEALY - NY Times
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Illuminating Childhood →
Illuminating Childhood: Portraits in Fiction, Film, and Drama by (Professor) Ellen Handler Spitz
Experiencing the phases of childhood through art
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Sondheim: "A Playwright in Song" →
Stephen Sondheim ponders his accomplishments, his way of working, and the form and future of the American musical. An interview by Rob Weinert-Kendt
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YA Cover Trends and the Fairy Tale Archetype →
There were so many fascinating comments on my post about the dead-girl trend in YA book cover design that I hardly know where to begin addressing them. But as I ambled over to the coffee shop where I write these posts, something about the sight of winter branches and the feel of warm air that lies of springtime turned my thoughts to fairy tales, and from fairy tales back to this...
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YA Cover Trends and the Fairy Tale Archetype
There were so many fascinating comments on my post about the dead-girl trend in YA book cover design that I hardly know where to begin addressing them. But as I ambled over to the coffee shop where I write these posts, something about the sight of winter branches and the feel of warm air that lies of springtime turned my thoughts to fairy tales, and from fairy tales back to this discussion.
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Their Eyes Were Watching God « The Big Read Blog →
Photographs, interviews, media, essays, reflections, history, and more at the NEA Big Read blog about Their Eyes Were Watching God. Give a look and a listen.
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Farm Labor in the 1930s →
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“Southern Blues Song: Hurston-Style”
– Zora Neale Hurston & Polk County » Southern Blues Song: Hurston-Style
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“In the heart of the black community,and among some of the oldest neighborhoods...”
– Lord, Somebody Got Drowned on Vimeo
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WatchLord, Somebody Got Drowned (by Daniel Cheatham)
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The Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of... →
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Gorgeous Grimm: 130 Years of Brothers Grimm Visual... →
Gorgeous Grimm: 130 Years of Brothers Grimm Visual Legacy by Maria Popova
What evil stepmothers and conniving wolves have to do with understanding the future of reading.
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"How Some Children Played at Slaughtering"
“How Some Children Played at Slaughtering”
The pioneering collection of fairy tales published by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the first half of the 19th century reflects both the romantic interest in the national past—that is, in the cultural origins and “childhood” of the German people—and the burgeoning efforts to create a literature tailored to the perceived needs of...
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Jack the Giant Killer: film preview →
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“Exhumation of the remains of a deceased person: Citizens Information page from...”
– Exhumation of the remains of a deceased person
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IRISH LITERATURE, MYTHOLOGY, FOLKLORE, AND DRAMA →
Well, that title pretty much says it all. Click through for a wealth of more specific links.
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How Long Does It Take for a Body to Decompose? →
As with many things in life, it depends on several factors: the temperature and humidity, whether the body is in water or not, buried or not, underground or not, embalmed or not, exposed to insects or carnivores or not….
KEEP READING! After all, this becomes a central question in Martin McDonagh’s Skull in Connemara…
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English 10 talks GLEAM →
10th grade English students from Friends School up the road just complemented their reading of Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God with a class visit from some of the production team and a trip to see the production of Gleam at CENTERSTAGE. Here are their thoughts on the conversation, the adaptation, the production and performances, and the story. Smart bunch.
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Skull-smashing fun →
How to make and break some bones.
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"Dramaturgical Costumes" →
January 2012
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Single Carrot and Everyman Join CENTERSTAGE in... →
Pub Reads on Broadway World…
Interview with Lydia Diamond →
The writer of Stick Fly shares her thoughts on women of color in theater, now and to come.
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FREE pub readings - Martin Mcdonagh plays →
With A Skull in Connemara finishing up tech, we’ve invited local actors from Single Carrot and Everyman (and others) to join us at Liam’s 8pm this Sunday and next, Jan 22 & 29, to read the other two plays from the Leenane trilogy. And yes, it’s free - but your bar tab is your business. So show up at 22 E North Ave in Baltimore for some booze and brogues. Follow the link...
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“I read the other day some verses written by an eminent painter which were...”
– ~ from Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance”
Essays: First Series/Self-Reliance - Wikisource
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Suspicion of Stories →
As theater-makers, we are constantly thinking about, battling, embracing, in some way engaging with the recognizable narratives that Mr. Cowen mentions. They are our sworn enemies and our daily bread. Damn them. God love them. What do you think of them?
The Future of Theater? →
Harvard Mag and Robert Brustein wonder if “the play’s still the thing” in a digital age.
The new play stand-off →
Read Olmos’ entire post—prompted by cancellation of his own play—at the link. It’s a widespread conundrum for sure…
“And so there is this disconnect between the people and those that provide for the people; each of them waiting on the other to make some sort of move that will allow them both to get what they want. Specifically in the arts, we have people...
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WatchCENTERSTAGE patrons talk about their relationship with the theater and recall memories of favorite shows.
CENTERSTAGE - MY CENTERSTAGE (by drury bynum)
Create Baltimore 2 →
“What: CreateBaltimore is a participant-created conference for artists, cultural workers, entrepreneurs, and technologists interested in building a creative community in Baltimore.”
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Liam Flynn's Ale House & the Free "Pub Readings"... →
So says Liam of his newly opened pub:
Liam Flynn’s Ale House is a new public ale house in the Station North Arts & Entertainment District of Baltimore City. Informally known as the Pub or Liam’s, The Ale House has 15 taps. 2 being for locally brewed, cask-conditioned “Real Ale”. We specialize in British Isles Ales, Whiskeys & Ciders. We have a growing range of Scottish beers and English...