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Immediately the audience is captured by this world that Gilmour, the author of the engaging biography about Queen Victoria’s viceroy “Curzon: Imperial Statesman,” expertly recreates. He begins by talking about the “empress of India” Queen Victoria, who “never went east of Berlin or south of San Sebastian...
...Maybe beauty is the final step to end violence and preach world peace after all." TAMAR GOREGIAN, winner of the Iraq Queen of Beauty pageant, in her acceptance speech, four days before extremists' threats prompted her resignation. The second and third runners-up declined the crown, and the current queen is in hiding...
...Orpheus X,” an American Repertory world premiere, updates the well-known myth of Orpheus (Eckert), a musician so gifted he could move mountains with his song, who descends to Hades to rescue his recently-killed wife Eurydice. He convinces Persephone, wife of Hades and queen of the dead, to release Eurydice, only to lose her by looking back at her as they leave. Here, Orpheus is a rock star, with an electric guitar instead of a lyre. Instead of being married to Eurydice (Suzan Hanson), he has collided with her—literally—only once...
TAMAR GOREGIAN, winner of the Iraq Queen of Beauty pageant, in her acceptance speech, four days before extremists' threats prompted her resignation. The second and third runners-up declined the crown, and the current queen is in hiding...
...irony, of course, is that the easier it is to become famous--whether in a really famous fashion or simply as a queen for a day--the more irrelevant the meaning of celebrity becomes. As a diminutive diva on My Super Sweet 16 guilelessly observes, "We're like celebrities but not famous." Exactly. Autographs, please...