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Landmarks in theater aren't what they used to be. Back in 1959 Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun became the first play by a black woman--amazing to think now--ever to open on Broadway. It was a breakthrough in subject matter too, focusing on the struggles of a poor black family in a Chicago tenement at the dawn of the civil rights era. The revival of A Raisin in the Sun that opened last week on Broadway is groundbreaking in a way more suited to our times. It stars a hip-hop impresario with scant acting...
...life, body, soul and, yes, heart," reads one paean from a fan. For billions more, from Kabul to Kuala Lumpur, "Ash" is the most recognized female face in Bollywood, as the Indian film industry (the world's largest) is widely known. Now she is about to make a breakthrough in the West. This spring the 30-year-old former Miss World will return to Cannes as the new face of L'Oreal and then tour Britain, the U.S. and Canada in a Bollywood road show. A string of Western film roles will follow: Coline Serreau's Chaos, in which...
Laurie A. Maranian ’07 says that she had one student who was especially difficult. But after brainstorming sessions with the company, she tried a new tact. “I had a breakthrough with [him] when I asked him to teach me to Crip-walk,” she says...
Without boldness and creativity, dance would still be in the formative stages we remember from the glittery ball scenes in Shakespeare in Love. Although seemingly archaic today, even ballet was in its time a breakthrough...
...pieces are there; it’s just a matter of making a small number of technical changes and feeling confident racing together,” she added. “There’s going to be a breakthrough where we find a rhythm and just go with...