West Side Story on Broadway. Seeing West Side Story with my parents as a teenager was one of the most stimulating experiences of my childhood. A seemingly organic interweaving of Stephen Sondheim's brilliant lyrics, Leonard Bernstein's ...
Mark K. Shriver is the vice president and managing director of U.S. Programs at Save the Children. He leads programs and advocacy efforts for children living in impoverished rural communities across the U.S. He also served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates and was Maryland’s first chair of the Joint Committee on Children, Youth, and Families.
Hair Dazzles Broadway
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
Acid redux! The Hair revival opened on Broadway last night, and is newly relevant in a post-Obama America. Lee Siegel reports on the protest musical, and how we are still in the Age of Aquarius.
The Movie That's Stealing Harry Potter Fans
John Constantine is a journalist, author, and associate editor at Nerve.com. His ravings, meditations, and criticism about the artistic power of videogames can be found at 61 Frames Per Second, Nerve’s rgaming blog.
Award-winning novelist Neil Gaiman, whose children's book Coraline hits the big screen next week, on how to appeal to children after Harry Potter and what it takes to work on the same project for over a decade.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
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Peter Beinart, senior political writer for The Daily Beast, is a professor of journalism and political science at City University of New York and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
Gerald Posner is The Daily Beast's Chief Investigative Reporter. He's the award-winning author of 10 investigative nonfiction bestsellers, ranging from political assassinations, to Nazi war criminals, to 9/11, to terrorism. His latest book, Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth and Power—A Dispatch from the Beach, was published in October. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife, the author Trisha Posner.
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