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*It was a night of nights at the Mark Taper Forum last night when the stars came out for the opening of the August Wilson classic “Joe Turner’s Come and Gone,” directed by Phylicia Rashad. Stars in attendance included Angela Bassett, Dawn Lewis, Debbie Allen, Norm Nixon, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Harry Lennix, Lamman Rucker, Lynn [...]
*Newsweek and the Daily Beast had to do some downsizing. Instead of simply chopping from the bottom up, the execs at the publications decided to cut one of the company’s most influential journalists. Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion journalist Robin Givhan was laid off, but will continue her term until the end of the year, according to [...]
*The Library of Congress has announced that the next poet laureate is Natasha Trethewey, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of three collections and a professor of creative writing at Emory University in Atlanta. [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] Trethewey, 46, was born in Gulfport, Miss., and is the first Southerner to hold the post since Robert [...]
*Playwright Lynn Nottage is writing a teleplay of her Pulitzer Prize-winning drama Ruined, to be produced by HBO Films and Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Productions, reports the Los Angeles Times. The story follows a tough brothel/bar-keeper named Mama Nadi, who is trying to make a buck in the chaos of civil war in the Democratic Republic [...]
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