“The most talked-about painting in the 1913 Armory Show deconstructed a human figure in abstract brown panels in overlapping motion. Marcel Duchamp’s Cubist-inspired Nude Descending a Staircase was famously described by one critic as ‘an explosion in a shingle factory.'”
Tag: 02.17.13
Being Ann Richards
Actress Holland Taylor talks about spending four years researching, writing and starring in a one-woman show about the late Texas governor. Says Cecile Richards of Taylor, “And now she is practically part of the family. I think she knows more about my mother than I do.”
Persistence (And A Little Chutzpah) Earn Young Playwright His Off-Broadway Debut
How did Paul Downs Colaizzo do it? By, among other things, cold-calling a marketing firm for a job, lobbying erstwhile colleagues to get his script into a play-reading festival, and befriending one of American theater’s hottest directors by walking up to him on the sidewalk.