Awakening won eight Tony Awards, including best musical, and just this week, it won another best musical trophy — this time at the Olivier Awards, London’s equivalent to the Tony. This week also saw the national tour open at the Winspear Opera House. But is it the landmark rock ‘n’ roll musical people have been hailing? Jerome Weeks reviews.
She helped get the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library built. She expanded the entire library system and built up its notable collections in first editions. She fought city council members who wanted to ban books. Yep, Lillian Moore Bradshaw was one smart, tough librarian. Feel free to leave your own memories of the first American woman to run a big-city library system.
From a distance, the Wyly Theater can look like a modern, metal box – just another medium-rise office tower. But upon inspection, the surface of the Wyly turns out to be rippled – covered with 466 aluminum tubes.
1650 French Map …………………………………………………… Dragoon saber & scabbard The KERA radio story: The expanded online story: The Dallas Historical Society has been in the news recently because of the discovery of a famous Civil War letter. The letter — known as the Bixby letter and possibly written by Abraham Lincoln — was sent to experts [...]
Victor Goines KERA radio: Audio excerpts from the interview with Victor Goines: Why he teaches/ What students get out of it/ Building an audience Audio: Paschal student Travis Taback on taking Goines’ master classes Victor Goines, first director of Jazz Studies at Juilliard Tavis Smiley interview on NPR with Victor Goines Expanded online story: Destinee: [...]
