Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen October 18, 2012 — January 12, 2013 NYPL for the Performing Arts Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center exhibit coverage abounds, e.g. here and here She tempts. She smiles. She is just herself purely, simply, delightfully. Katharine Hepburn. I have admired her for decades from afar in movies and … Continue reading
The Group Theatre & How it Transformed American Culture Co-curated by Ronald Rand & Mel Gordon Featuring Ellen Adler, Laila Robins, Wendy Smith, John Strasberg, Fritz Weaver (and others) Monday, June 4, 2012 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center in Elebash Hall, The Graduate Center, CUNY, 365 Fifth Avenue event site We assemble in the lovely … Continue reading
The Legacy Project: Pioneering Women Producers Presented by the League of Professional Theatre Women & CUNY Grad Center Monday, May 14, 2012 Martin E. Segal Theatre Center, The CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue event site The women who precede us mark the lives we lead in ways we sometimes never discern. In politics and … Continue reading
92YTribeca: Judy: A Legendary Film Career John Fricke presents clips and history Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 12 noon 92YTribeca, 2000 Hudson Street (at Canal) event site “People always expect me to be funny. I was never funny; the writers were funny! Do you know who was really funny? Judy Garland. Judy Garland was naturally … Continue reading
Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein (2011) by Julie Salamon weaves and wanders and quotes and alludes and does all the superficial things a biography is meant to do. It is well-organized, cited and indexed. People are quoted, apparently many years were spent in reading and interviewing, and the outlines of … Continue reading
When: Thursday, August 11, about 8pm Where: The Paley Center for Media, 25 West 52nd Street What: Elliot Tiber meets fellow Judy Garland fans And on August 11 at a screening of television appearances ranging from Jack Paar show visits from 1964 and 1967 to a 1968 visit to the Philadelphia-based Mike Douglas show to show … Continue reading
Over the Rainbow and How They Got There: Special Effects in The Wizard of Oz Sun, December 5. 2010 3pm Children’s Museum of Manhattan, Tisch Building, 212 West 83rd Street exhibit web page: http://www.cmom.org/explore/exhibits/wizard_oz special programs: http://www.cmom.org/explore/programs/wizard_oz World renowned Oz historian, John Fricke takes you behind the scenes with movie clips and Ozzy facts; how they melted a witch, … Continue reading
When: Wednesday, November 10, Reading at 7 p.m. Where: The Barclay Bar & Grill, 111 East 48th Street Harvardwood, the Harvard alumni arts organization with branches in Hollywood and New York City, hosted author Sallie Bingham at the Barclay / Intercontinental Hotel in midtown Manhattan. An intimate and enthusiastic gathering enjoyed pampered service (the bar … Continue reading
Kay Thompson: From Funny Face to Eloise (and many additional ports of call). I shall indulge in some ruminations about this amazing woman, this memoir published November 2010, and an event to celebrate all of it. Monday, November 8, 2010, 9:30 pm “Jim Caruso’s Cast Party” to focus on Thompson Birdland, 315 West 44th Street (between … Continue reading
[Repost of an entry in my dramaturgy blog on the Philadelphia Dramatists Center web site. Original: http://www.pdc1.org/viewthisblog.php?post=72] “Serendipitous Acts of Fate and Community”: A report of an event, a publication, a state of the state, and a call to action. By Martha Steketee On Tuesday, February 16, 2010, in the historic Plays & Players main stage … Continue reading
