Dominique Morisseau’s characters are, as the post-colonial thinker Frantz Fanon once described himself, often paralyzed “at the crossroads between nothingness and infinity.” Her plays craft realistic depictions of marginalized people inextricably caught in the tide of history. In her 2013 piece “Sunset Baby,” receiving a potent revival at Signature Theater,
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Dating Woes? Nina Conti Has the Answer, or at Least Some Jokes
Meaningful, long-lasting connections can take a while to form, but when Nina Conti met her future partner-in-crime, she knew they were simpatico right away. “It was one of those moments where I felt very grounded as soon as I saw his face,” Conti, a British performer and writer, said in
A Thrilling, Rediscovered Nina Simone Set, and 9 More New Songs
Just a week after performing at the historically Black Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., supporting James Meredith’s March Against Fear, Nina Simone was on fire as she strode onstage to play for a very different audience at the Newport Jazz Festival on July 2, 1966. Her interactions with the bourgeois
La Nina, which worsens Atlantic hurricanes and Western droughts, is gone
A house sits in Rock Creek in June 2022 after floodwaters washed away a road and a bridge in Red Lodge, Mont. David Goldman/AP hide caption toggle caption David Goldman/AP A house sits in Rock Creek in June 2022 after floodwaters washed away a road and a bridge in Red
So ~Original~! Nina Dobrev Loves a Good Bikini Moment: See Her Stunning Swimsuit Photos
Nina Dobrev loves to travel, and thankfully, she always brings along a trove of stunning bikinis when she has her fun in the sun. The former Vampire Diaries star loves quality time at the beach and by her backyard swimming pool and is always up to share the photos with her fans. The
A stubborn La Nina and manmade warming are behind recent wild weather, scientists say
Nurse Katie Leonard uses a kayak to bring supplies to Patsy Costello, 88, as she sits trapped in her vehicle Dec. 31 on Astrid Drive in Pleasant Hill, Calif.. Costello drove her car on the flooded street thinking she could make it, but it stalled in the two feet of
Noah Reid Preps for Parenthood With Vegetation and Nina Simone
4. Sol e Pesca Restaurant in Lisbon It’s in an previous sort out store concerning the dimension of a shoe field on this little highway in Lisbon. It feels very tucked away. You go in and sit on this tiny stool, they carry you a basket of bread and also
Lise Davidsen and Nina Stemme Star in ‘Elektra’ on the Met
Behind the fantastic extra of Strauss’s “Elektra” — the libretto’s mythic setting, the rating’s unsparing terror — is one thing smaller: a starkly framed household portrait, albeit one knocked off the wall and scratched up by shards of shattered glass. That has at all times been on the core of
Evaluate: ‘Little Woman Blue’ Revisits Nina Simone in Her Prime
Musicals typically depend on acquainted patterns — a patter track right here, an “I would like” quantity there — and biographical musicals may properly be essentially the most predictable of all. The songs are blended with sufficient again story to make the viewers really feel as in the event that
The Artists Turning Nina Simone’s Childhood Dwelling Right into a Artistic Vacation spot
Like Du Bois, Simone was an expat: When she died in 2003, after a protracted sickness, she was dwelling in Carry-le-Rouet, a small seaside city within the south of France, some 4,500 miles away from the home on East Livingston Avenue the place she had been born 70 years earlier.