Leslie Odom, Jr. (actor/singer/composer) has accomplished a lot in the first 25 years of a diversified career spanning many performance genres. He has appeared in leading roles on film and s…
Aretha Franklin (composer-singer-pianist), the "Queen of Soul," had an astonishing six-decade career (1954-2017) during which she received 18 Grammy Awards and 44 nominations. She was the fi…
John Dunton was the first known advice columnist. He answered questions sent to his British periodical "The Athenian Mercury" in 1690, with the assistance of experts in science, history, and…
"The Sound Inside" by Adam Rapp (novelist, playwright, screenwriter, musician, and film director) is directed by Everyman Theatre's founder and artistic director, Vincent M. Lancisi, and fea…
 Composer Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) and lyricist Lorenz (Larry) Hart (1895-1943) collaborated on 28 musical shows during the period 1919-1943. Upon Hart's death in 1943, Rodgers formed…
Gustav Mahler (1860-1911), an Austro-Bohemian conductor-composer, once said, "As soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial banishes without a tra…
Oscar Wilde once said, "The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic." My experience of the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) and his music began by m…
An interviewer once asked John Lennon how the Beatles named their songs. John said he was getting a haircut at a salon when he heard one of the stylists ask a customer how she liked her hair…
"My Fair Lady," with music by Frederick Loewe and book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner, is based on the 1913 play "Pygmalion" by George Bernard Shaw. Shaw refused to give permission for a musi…