This is the grave of Arthur Sullivan. Born in 1842 in Lambeth, London, Sullivan grew up around music. His father was a clarinet player and led a military band. The boy was expected to go into music and he started writing his own tunes by...
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This is the grave of Laurence Olivier. Born in 1907 in Dorking, Surrey, England, Olivier had a somewhat unusual entrance into being one of the greatest actors to ever live,.
This is the grave of Edwin Booth. Born in 1833 in Bel Air, Maryland, Booth grew up in the United States' most prominent acting family. His father was Junius Booth.
This is the grave of John Howard Payne. Born in 1791 in New York City, Payne grew up in a well-off family. They had old colonial roots and he mostly grew up in Boston, where his father ran a school. From the time he was...
This is the grave of Joseph Urban. Born in 1872 in Vienna, Urban grew up wealthy and went into architecture. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna,.
This is the grave of Eugene O'Neill. Born into an acting family in New York in 1888, O'Neill was around theater his entire life. In fact, he was born in.
On September 6, 1919, New York theater owners and striking actors sign an agreement to end a bitter and acrimonious strike based around the really horrific working conditions the actors faced, transforming this industry. The late 1910s were a fascinating time for organized labor. World...
Today marks the Immortal Bard William Shakespeare's 454th birthday! The inventor of thousands of new English words, for no reason at all,.
My research has mostly revolved around virtual witnessing, but after attending a recent show at Amnesty International headquarters in London I decided to look into another kind of witnessing. I.
Finally, a well-deserved pushback to the politics of the Hamilton musical is happening. The show does include one named black character, Sally Hemings, who appears in a quick cameo that lands mainly as a dig at Jefferson. (The slaveholdings of the Schuyler family, which Hamilton...
The Jedi Principle runs so: If you need the Jedi in order to make your project work, don't start. The Jedi Principle comes to mind in the context of defenses.
Having grown up and spent most of my formative years on the West Coast, I am constantly befuddled by the aversion of East Coasters to drives of even moderate distance..