The sun is out and we’ve all got Monday off thanks to the unfathomable wonder of the British Bank Holiday system. So why not put your inevitable domination of the acting world aside for a moment and have some fun in the greatest city in the world? Pop into the park.One-day pop festival, the Mighty Hoopla returns to Hackney’s Victoria Park on June 4. Topping the bill are Years & Years, All Saints, and Will Young, but this is really a chance for you live a little and party. Organisers promise “you’ll be picking glitter out of your hair for weeks”. (Tickets: £39) Act up.Blackadder’s Queenie aka the brilliant Miranda Richardson reads the poetry and letters of Pulitzer Prize winners Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell at The Coronet on June 4. The BAFTA-winning actress will perform Dead Poets Live for one night only and all proceeds go to charity.
- 5/29/2017
- backstage.com
★★★☆☆Bruno Barreto's handsome, English-language biopic Reaching for the Moon (2013) follows the passionate relationship between Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (The Lord of the Rings star Miranda Otto) and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares (Glória Pires). It's 1951 and Elizabeth, suffering from writers' block, is encouraged by fellow poet Robert Lowell (Treat Williams) to try a change of scene. Elizabeth embarks on a journey around South American and stops off to visit Mary (Tracy Middendorf), an old college friend now settled in Brazil. Mary lives with Lota on her beautiful landscaped country estate, where they regularly entertain fellow urbanites with similar pursuits.
- 4/17/2014
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney died Friday. The Irish-born author, playwright and translator was 74. Heaney, who had been called the greatest Irish poet since Yeats by no less an authority than Robert Lowell, died in a Dublin hospital, according to the New York Times. In poetry collections like "Stations" (1975), "Field Work" (1979) and "Electric Light"(2001), as well as plays like "The Burial at Thebes" (2004), Heaney used literature to examine myriad moral and ethical quandaries. His subject ranged from the sectarian "troubles" in his native country to the foreign policy...
- 8/30/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
Lauryn Hill may have started a three-month prison sentence for tax evasion yesterday, but she did so in a national institution: the Federal Correction Facility in Danbury, Connecticut. In its time, the 62-year-old complex has graduated more famous Americans than some colleges -- from Leona Helmsley to the poet Robert Lowell to the acerbic screenwriter Ring Lardner, and even the congressman who charged Lardner with contempt in the first place. Its premises have been referenced on The Sopranos, and Weeds, and starting this Thursday, will be the setting of a new Netflix show, Orange Is The New Black, based on the memoirs of former inmate Piper Kerner.
But it’s still jail. Below, Kerner, a Smith College graduate, tells HuffPost about life inside Danbury, and why Hill would do best to shed any pretensions and make friends with her peers.
The Huffington Post: Danbury seems to be the prison of...
But it’s still jail. Below, Kerner, a Smith College graduate, tells HuffPost about life inside Danbury, and why Hill would do best to shed any pretensions and make friends with her peers.
The Huffington Post: Danbury seems to be the prison of...
- 7/9/2013
- by Mallika Rao
- Huffington Post
Yale Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere of Sarah Ruhls Dear Elizabeth, a play in letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and back again, directed by Les Waters, at Yale Repertory Theatre 1120 Chapel Street, November 30-December 22. Opening Night is tonight, December 6. The cast of Dear Elizabeth is Mary Beth Fisher and Jefferson Mays. Click below to go backstage with the stars, plus watch highlights from the show...
- 12/6/2012
- by Stage Tube
- BroadwayWorld.com
Yale Repertory Theatre presents the world premiere of Sarah Ruhls Dear Elizabeth, a play in letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and back again, directed by Les Waters, at Yale Repertory Theatre 1120 Chapel Street, November 30-December 22. Opening Night is tonight, December 6. The cast of Dear Elizabeth is Mary Beth Fisher and Jefferson Mays. BroadwayWorld has a first look at the pair onstage in the photos below...
- 12/6/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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Rita Dove is a Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate, and she’s also a competitive ballroom dancer. A professor at the University of Virginia, Dove now has another credit to her name: editor of the new Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry.
The anthology, a sienna clothbound release, looks like something that would be kept in a walnut bookshelf in the library of some British manor house. But this is a distinctly American book,...
Rita Dove is a Pulitzer Prize winner and former Poet Laureate, and she’s also a competitive ballroom dancer. A professor at the University of Virginia, Dove now has another credit to her name: editor of the new Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry.
The anthology, a sienna clothbound release, looks like something that would be kept in a walnut bookshelf in the library of some British manor house. But this is a distinctly American book,...
- 10/26/2011
- by Barbara Chai
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
"Death disports with writers more cruelly than with the rest of humankind," Cynthia Ozick wrote in a recent issue of The New Republic.
"The grave can hardly make more mute those who were voiceless when alive--dust to dust, muteness to muteness. But the silence that dogs the established writer's noisy obituary, with its boisterous shock and busy regret, is more profound than any other.
"Oblivion comes more cuttingly to the writer whose presence has been felt, argued over, championed, disparaged--the writer who is seen to be what Lionel Trilling calls a Figure. Lionel Trilling?
"Consider: who at this hour (apart from some professorial specialist currying his "field") is reading Mary McCarthy, James T. Farrell, John Berryman, Allan Bloom, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Edmund Wilson, Anne Sexton, Alice Adams, Robert Lowell, Grace Paley, Owen Barfield, Stanley Elkin, Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Leslie Fiedler, R.P. Blackmur, Paul Goodman, Susan Sontag,...
"The grave can hardly make more mute those who were voiceless when alive--dust to dust, muteness to muteness. But the silence that dogs the established writer's noisy obituary, with its boisterous shock and busy regret, is more profound than any other.
"Oblivion comes more cuttingly to the writer whose presence has been felt, argued over, championed, disparaged--the writer who is seen to be what Lionel Trilling calls a Figure. Lionel Trilling?
"Consider: who at this hour (apart from some professorial specialist currying his "field") is reading Mary McCarthy, James T. Farrell, John Berryman, Allan Bloom, Irving Howe, Alfred Kazin, Edmund Wilson, Anne Sexton, Alice Adams, Robert Lowell, Grace Paley, Owen Barfield, Stanley Elkin, Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Leslie Fiedler, R.P. Blackmur, Paul Goodman, Susan Sontag,...
- 4/24/2011
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
In her first book, Why Not Say What Happened? (Knopf, October 19), Guinness heiress Ivana Lowell gives a frank and, at times, comic account of growing up amid extreme privilege and eccentric personalities such as her grandmother (Maureen the Marchioness of Dufferin) and her complicated mother (writer Lady Caroline Blackwood). The memoir follows Lowell’s upbringing, from the grand, unfurnished English country houses of her youth to her days working in Manhattan at Miramax Books for Harvey Weinstein. A central, underlying question suffuses the book: Who, among her mother’s many companions, is actually her father? Below, Ivana recalls her close relationship with the poet Robert Lowell, her paterfamilias from age 5 to 13—and her mother’s third husband. Listen to the podcast after the jump.
- 10/1/2010
- Vanity Fair
Three-time Tony Award winner Frank Langella is among the American theater world's greatest living actors. Though he gained recognition as a film star in the 1970s, the stage has always been his first love. He spoke candidly with CBS Sunday Morning's Tracy Smith about his career, the work of an actor and the price of fame. His career off-Broadway was launched with an Obie Award in 1965 for his performance in poet-playwright Robert Lowell's The Old Glory: Benito Cereno. His other major off-Broadway productions include Edmond Rostand's Cyrano, Arthur Miller's After the Fall, John Webster's The White Devil, Heinrich von Kleist's The Prince of Homburg, Andre Gide's The Immortalist and Shakespeare's The Tempest. Langella's triumphs on Broadway include Tony Awards for Edward Albee's Seascape, for Turgeneve's Fortune's Fool and last year for his role as President Richard Nixon in the New York production of Frost/Nixon.
- 1/25/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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