With his wavy white hair, his dapper blue-gray suit and gold-rimmed eyeglasses, the nonagenarian did not look a day over 80. Standing at a podium at a 2019 Ted Talk, 99-year-old Eddie Jaku looked out at the audience before he began recounting his experiences of Kristallnacht and the five concentration camps he survived. “My dear […]
Tennessee Williams might not be the biggest daddy in American theater — there is Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, August Wilson — but the Mississippi-born playwright comes awfully close. His early plays became a string of Broadway hits: The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, and Night […]
Okay, he gushed. Ryan Fitzgerald had just seen Shucked at the invitation of the show’s writer, Robert Horn — or as the actor says only half-jokingly, “The man. The myth. The legend” — and, yup, now he was gushing. Fitzgerald, who is in the ensemble of the first national tour of Shucked, met the writer […]
On the cusp of retiring, Deborah Jordy sits on her patio at her Cherry Creek home speaking with devotion and no small amount of poetry about a favorite topic. The executive director of the SCFD, one of the nation’s most innovative and consequential local sources of arts and culture funding —the seven-county Scientific and Cultural […]