Film: In 1981, composer-lyricist Stephen Sondheim and director Harold Prince adapted a Depression-era play on the ironies of show business success, Merrily We Roll Along, and opened it on Broadway to such critical and popular indifference that it destroyed their much-acclaimed string of musical collaborations. Now, 35 years later, original cast member Lonny Price looks at the … [Read more...]
At the Flagler, an astonishing look at a vanishing civilization
Imagine you are a daunting century-old sepia image holding the secrets of a lost civilization. What more could you possibly want? A little credit for your creator, perhaps. When, at age 32, American photographer Edward S. Curtis set out to urgently document the many rituals and faces of the Native Americans up close and personal, languages had already vanished and most of … [Read more...]