OTTAWA — Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds is the recipient of the 2021 National Arts Centre Award. The award, part of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards, recognizes work of an extraordinary nature and significance in the performing arts by an individual artist and/or company in the past performance year. Recipients […]
Month: November 2021
By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer NEW YORK (AP) — In 2010, the year he turned 80, Stephen Sondheim had to endure a public fuss when a Broadway theater was being renamed in his honor. At a ceremony outside the 1,055-seat auditorium on West 43rd Street, the composer looked sheepish […]
Fred Behmer was born in 1886 in Columbus, and at an early age he gained access to a camera and quickly developed an eye for photography. At 16 years old he started taking photographs for money, and at 17 he began working at Jeffrey Manufacturing doing corporate photography. He married in […]
Interviewing Hanna Cormick requires one to embrace an elastic relationship with time. The performance artist has what she describes as a “trifecta of conditions” — Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome, Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome — that affects her joints, organs and ability to stand. She also has severe […]
This holiday season the State Theater has movies featuring Griswolds, golden bells, a grouchy Grinch, guardian angels and the golden age of Hollywood. “We think there is a Christmas movie for everyone in our lineup,” said Beth Pyles, State Theater operations manager. The lineup includes “Christmas Vacation,” “The Polar Express,” […]
Some of my earliest memories involve repeatedly slamming a sticky forefinger onto the Rewind and Play buttons of a two-tone Fisher-Price cassette player. Long before I was able to respond to music as anything other than a sensory stimulus, I was an obsessive listener. I don’t mean “obsessive” in a […]