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When Corrine first comes upon Luke, then a dazed and disoriented stranger stumbling up West Broadway, it is a day after the Sept. 11 disaster—the first day in what they both come to recognize as an “entirely new calendar.” Begrimed and bloodied, a guilt-wracked Luke is desperately searching for the friend he was to meet that fatal morning when he is effectively saved by the “angelic apparition…whom, in his delirium, he’d briefly and wishfully imagined as the last woman on earth?...
...difference a few pop cultural references make. Menschiness has suddenly become cool. Desperate husband Carlos on Desperate Housewives described his parole officer as one, while the term came up in an episode of the generally un-menschy ?Jake in Progress.? John Lithgow was just singing about them on Broadway in ?Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.? And a guest on Oprah even described her as ?Mensch of the Year? last month for admitting her mistake in initially defending fact-challenged best-selling author James Frey. Just in time for Valentine?s Day, TIME Correspondent Wendy Cole spoke to Mensch expert Robin Gorman Newman...
...thing called modern dance!’” She sought out artistic training whenever and wherever she could, from such celebrated teachers as Blanche Evan, Martha Graham, and Hanya Holm. Once out of high school, she worked as a professional dancer in countless venues: in cabarets, on Broadway, and even in a traveling circus.In an unlikely turn of events, Mallardi’s reputation for visceral, inventive, and unabashedly artistic dance caught the attention of Radcliffe, an institution whose wealthy and straight-laced reputation seemed inimical to Mallardi’s style, in 1965. She says her initial...
...curated by Michael Oatman, a professor at Renesselear Polytecnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.; second, the indefinable reinventions of the international group, Spurse Collective, who will install an impromptu eatery in Cambridge, with food and supplies culled from local residents and business.An exhibit at the Cambridge City Hall Annex on Broadway will accompany each project, giving more background to the transient works.According to Lillian Hsu, director of public art at the Cambridge Arts Council, this round-robin idea appealed to New England curators on several levels. Conceptually, erecting the steel structure in subsequent cities seemed like an exciting, open-ended exploration...
...creatively explore and challenge the presuppositions all of us hold about the value of female bodies.” Ensler interviewed more than 200 women to create the script of “Monologues,” which which won an Obie Award when it was first performed Off-Broadway in 1996. Since then, the play has been translated into 29 languages, adapted for television by HBO, and, in 2001, performed in Madison Square Garden by such luminaries as Whoopi Goldberg and Melissa Etheridge. Though “Monologues” will likely be a much smaller affair, with only...