A recent Princeton University student's study confirmed what many playwrights and producers have often suspected. Women have a harder time getting their plays produced than men. Emerson Stage's compilation Coming of Age: An Evening of Short Plays by Women Playwrights, which runs Feb.
After an exciting year in film, the 82nd Academy Awards are approaching fast. Hosted by Steve Martin and Alec Baldwin on Sunday, March 7, audiences are in for a comedic treat along with an unpredictable array of potential winners. People all over the country will crowd around the TV anxiously waiting to see if The Hurt Locker can defeat Avatar for best picture, or if newcomer Carey Mulligan can win best actress over veteran Meryl Streep.
Lee Daniels, Oscar nominated director and producer of Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire, sat at the front of the Kevin Bright Family Screening Room last Tuesday, a big smile situated under his well defined handlebar mustache. "I've never done this sort of thing before," said the 51-year-old director, not giving away the slightest hint of anxiety in his enthusiastic demeanor.
It's official. Emerson is going to the Oscars. In December, sophomores Terry Stackhouse and Zach Cusson sent in a two-minute video showcasing their reporting talents for mtvU's "Oscar Red Carpet Correspondent Contest." Stackhouse served as the on-camera reporter, and his roommate Cusson as the cameraman.
Long jackets and short skirts flap over flailing limbs to the tempo of the hippest swing and jazz. It's 1940s France, and these Parisien shakers dance at the collision of subculture and counterculture under the foot of the Nazi regime. They were the Zazous.