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1 day ago · Leonard Bernstein’s Candide is a whimsical odyssey through the absurdities and contradictions of life, wrapped in a delightful musical package. With a libretto by luminaries such as Lillian Hellman, Richard Wilbur, and Stephen Sondheim, this operatic adaptation of Voltaire’s satirical novella is a tour de force of wit, comedy, and poignant reflection. From the opening notes of the overture ...
5 days ago · David Kornhaber, associate professor of English and comparative literature at The University of Texas at Austin, presented this lecture examining Arthur Miller's place in twentieth-century American drama. Arthur Miller stamp, 1999. John Reed Club demonstrators in a May Day Parade in Madison Square, New York City.
4 days ago · He’d been at Bobbs-Merrill, then Little, Brown, where he published J. D. Salinger, Lillian Hellman, and Evelyn Waugh. He became Little, Brown’s editor in chief in 1943. Cameron was known for ...
1 day ago · DEADLINE: OK, I’m picturing the movie Julia with Jane Fonda as Lillian Hellman when she walked into Sardi’s and everybody stands up and claps and she looks around like, Who are they clapping for.
2 days ago · Originally, St. Nicholas also did one classic per season, and these included Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge, Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest, and You Can't Take It With You by George Kaufman and Moss Hart.
2 days ago · The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, near New York City, the novel depicts first-person narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Daisy Buchanan.
1 day ago · The culture of fear and the power of public shaming make this piece startlingly relevant today. Inspired by a 19th-century legal case, Lillian Hellman’s landmark drama premiered in 1934 to great acclaim amid tremendous controversy — the play was initially banned in several major cities and the Pulitzer committee refused to attend.
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