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Working: A Musical
It's a brave choice to pull together a fully-realised musical, exclusively for a mere two-night stint at any festival – let alone one staged in Launceston, but with Tyran Parke's contacts, resources and passion, this kind of outrageousness has become de rigueur for the Australian Musical Theatre Festival, now in its 6th year. Additionally, it's a (relatively) little known and oft-revised Broadway show at that.
Sarah Smarsh on Capturing the Richness of Working-Class America
The journalist Sarah Smarsh grew up on a farm in rural Kansas, in “the sort of poverty that qualifies for welfare, though my proud family didn’t apply.” Her writing career, encompassing reporting, memoir, and opinion essays, has focussed on the experiences of working-class and rural poor Americans, illuminating the beauty, toil, and humor that defines communities like the one in which she grew up.
“I Enjoy It Somethin’ Terrible.” Studs Terkel Talks to Babe Secoli About Her Work as a Supermarket Checker
The following is from Working, Studs Terkel’s the classic oral history of Americans’ working lives. * Babe Secoli She’s a checker at a supermarket. She’s been at it for almost thirty years. “I started at twelve—a little, privately owned grocery store across the street from the house. They didn’t have no cash registers. I used to mark the prices down on a paper bag.” “When I got out of high school, I didn’t want no secretary job. I wanted the grocery job. It was so interesting for a young girl.
Chicago: City on the Make
Sixtieth Anniversary Edition “Once you’ve become a part of this particular patch, you’ll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real.” Ernest Hemingway once said of Nelson Algren’s writing that “you should not read it if you cannot take a punch.” The prose poem, Chicago: City on the Make, filled with language that swings and jabs and stuns, lives up to those words.
Patricia Arquette in ‘High Desert,’ Unmasking a Winner, ‘The Family Stallone,’ Last ‘Lies’ Original
Patricia Arquette stars as an unconventional private eye in Apple’s comedic High Desert. Who will win The Masked Singer this season, Medusa or Macaw? Sylvester Stallone follows his streaming hit Tulsa King by starring in a reality show about his family life. CBS’s series version of True Lies ends its short run with back-to-back episodes.
Working Localised
From the book by Studs Terkel, adapted by Stephen Schwartz and Nina Faso, Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University, Cremorne Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC), Brisbane, 27–29 April 2023 The third-year Bachelor of Musical Theatre students at Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University have found a new home at QPAC, and the intimate Cremorne Theatre was the perfect space to meet this year’s up-and-coming stage stars in their own version of Working.
My Favorite Graywolf Press Books
My column this week is a tribute to Graywolf Press, which just announced the planned departure of their Director and Publisher, Fiona McCrae, next year. One of the motivating impulses behind establishing this newsletter was a frustration that sometimes I needed more than my 600 word Tribune allotment. It seemed like occasionally using this space for a kind of expansion and commentary version of the column might be nice. This is one of those times.
Welcome to America, Shohei Ohtani - Baseball Prospectus
Image credit: © Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Welcome to Ohtani Week: a celebration of, well, Shohei Ohtani. There’s been no player more fascinating or exhilarating since Ohtani graced our shores in 2018. Over time, the initial curiosity and excitement surrounding MLB’s first true two-way player in a century morphed into something more: Pure, uncut awe derived a superstar breaking barriers previously thought unreachable.
Duke University Press - The Black Jacobins Reader
Share Book Pages: 464 Illustrations: 3 illustrations Published: January 2017 Editor(s): Charles Forsdick, Christian Høgsbjerg Contributor: Studs Terkel Subjects Caribbean Studies, History > World History, Postcolonial and Colonial Studies Containing a wealth of new scholarship and rare primary documents, The Black Jacobins Reader provides a comprehensive analysis of C. L. R. James's classic history of the Haitian Revolution.
Porchlight Shares Free And Premium Events In December
Porchlight Music Theatre announces its latest virtual offerings including the extension of New Faces Sing Broadway 1987 through Sunday, Dec. 13, the extension of L.A. Theatre Works' Working through Sunday, Dec. 6 and the Porchlight premieres of L.A. Theatre Works' Zoot Suit, an audio recording available Friday, Nov. 27 - Sunday, Dec. 20; the holiday streaming premiere of The Ruffians' Burning Bluebeard, available Friday, Dec. 4 - Sunday, Jan.
Porchlight Music Theatre Announces Fall 2020 Virtual Programming
The fall season kicks off with BROADWAY BY THE DECADE, NEW FACES SING BROADWAY 1987 and a holiday celebration. Porchlight Music Theatre has announced its schedule for fall 2020, offering a variety of free and pay-to-view options for virtual experiences. The new programs include original Porchlight productions of Broadway by the Decade, New Faces Sing Broadway 1987 and Happy Holidays from Porchlight! and musical audio broadcasts, with Chicago roots, from L.A. Theatre Works: Working and Zoot Suit.
Who Do You Think You Are?
Ira talks to Rev. Donald Sharp, of Faith Tabernacle Church in Chicago. Reverend Sharp, who is black, served in the segregated armed forces during World War II. Now, he sees Obama’s election very differently than his children and grandchildren do. They're ecstatic, while he can't shake his suspicion that racism will persist in this country. (6 minutes)
Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do (Paperback)
Search form Search $18.95 Description Perhaps Studs Terkel's best-known book, Working is a compelling, fascinating look at jobs and the people who do them. Consisting of over one hundred interviews conducted with everyone from gravediggers to studio heads, this book provides a timeless snapshot of people's feelings about their working lives, as well as a relevant and lasting look at how work fits into American life.
One More Time
Acknowledgments Foreword by Studs Terkel Part One - The Sixties September 6, 1963 - Tavern Gets Taken for a Ride, and a Taxi Driver Mourns March 15, 1966 - Complete Apology for Overrating the Irish Thirst August 8, 1966 - T-Shirted Punks Slay a Dragon August 16, 1967 - Picasso and the Cultural Rebirth of Chicago September 14, 1967 - It Wasn’t Our "Clout" She Stole, But a Counterfeit October 27, 1967 - Let’s Update City’s Image December 19, 1967 - Mary and Joe Chicago-Style March 19, 1968 -...
Alex Kotlowitz discusses his book "There Are No Children Here"
Studs Terkel Now and then you come across a book and you say, that's it. There's nothing more to be said, simply to read it. And I'm talking about a book called, the title is, "There Are No Children Here." And the subtitle, "The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America," and the author is Alex Kotlowitz.
DownBeat Archives
Mahalia Jackson (1911–1972) (Photo: DownBeat Archives/Columbia Records) “Mahalia, she was a girl in the slave days. She was dreaming of jubilee all the time. Of better days to come. My people gave me her name.” The big, handsome woman with the gentle face was weary as she stared out of the window of her Southside Chicago home at the Indian summer afternoon. She was looking out toward the setting sun, miles away and years ago. Her hands were clasped in her lap.
For Studs Terkel, Chicago Was a City Called Heaven
Editor's Note, May 16, 2012: Studs Terkel, the Pulitzer-Prize winning author and historian, reflected on the character of the city of Chicago for us in 2006. He died in 2008 at the age of 96. Today would have been his 100th birthday. Hog Butcher for the World, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler; Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders... Carl Sandburg, the white-haired old Swede with the wild cowlick, drawled out that brag in 1914.
Reading to Cope with Tragedy at Tree of Life
by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Heather Butts wrote in a review this posthumous book that psychiatrist Kubler-Ross “contributed immensely to the public’s understanding of how we die, how we prepare ourselves for death but, ultimately, how we live.” This book weaves together theory and practical advice to help people understand how they move through stages of grief.
Boss
Paul Douglas, gray eminence of local libertarians, describes Richard Joseph Daly as "the greatest Mayor Chicago has ever had." The New Republic, in a lead piece, pays tribute to Our Leader's progressivism: its author, a University of Chicago academic. On social occasions, Distinguished Citizens still shoulder one another aside for the tough of His hand. Their piety equals that of The Hawk and Sam, a couple of precinct captains, who provide crude oil for The Machine.
TEARING IT DOWN TO THE STUDS
Editor’s note: Here at The Sheet, we occasionally assign books for young staffers to review in order to broaden their horizons (and yours). Years back, Devon Frederickson was famously assigned War and Peace during a period of unusual orneriness. By comparison, Ben Trefry lucked out with his assignment: Studs Terkel. “Working” is a near 600-page book by famed journalist Studs Terkel. As the title suggests, it’s all about how ordinary Americans feel about their jobs.
MONTERREY: Talking About Race--It's Supposed To Be Uncomfortable
by Debbie Monterrey, [email protected]"Race. Our national obsession..." A line from the one-act play, "Race," put on by the Civic Arts Company at the Missouri History Museum. It's written by Jamie Pachino, based on the book of the same name by Studs Terkel. I took my children to see it Sunday afternoon during our surprise March blizzard.During the discussion period after the performance, one of the actors said, "Talking about race is uncomfortable. It's supposed to be uncomfortable.
Paper Pushers, by Studs Terkel, Daniel Ellsberg
studs terkel: Your name is known to quite a few Americans these days. You let the country and the world know about a series of documents called the Pentagon Papers.
I Hate Dogs | Chicago magazine | October 1973
I hate dogs. I hate cats, too. But not as much as I hate dogs. That’s saying a lot. Cats infuriated me, as at three o’clock in the morning, they hunched up on the back fence, meowing out their needs. My older brother, having had no luck at the Aragon, bawled out through the open window: “Shut up, you damn tabby! I don’t want to hear about your sex problems. I got my own troubles." Her wayward Tom was in God-knows-whose alley; but my brother showed little sympathy.
C.P. Ellis / Studs Terkel
C.P. Ellis was born in 1927 and was 53-years-old at the time of this interview with Studs Terkel.
Trauma, Death, and Forgiveness on the Front Lines of American Life | The Nation
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Studs Terkel, “’You Got Into My Heart Violently, But You’re There,’ Trauma, Death, and Forgiveness on the Frontlines of American Life,”
Studs Terkel, “’You Got Into My Heart Violently, But You’re There,’ Trauma, Death, and Forgiveness on the Frontlines of American Life,” To stay on top of important articles like these, sign up to receive the latest updates from TomDispatch.com here. Studs Terkel, who put oral history on the American map with one spectacular book after another, was a small man who had a knack for making everyone around him feel larger than life.
Working | The New Press
People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do In celebration of his 2003 Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Book Critics Circle, one of three of Studs Terkel’s classics in handsome new paperback editions “I cannot find words to express sufficiently my admiration for Studs Terkel’s Working. . . .
Hope Dies Last | The New Press
Hope Dies Last is Studs Terkel’s inspiring new oral history of social action in America. An alternative, more personal history of the “American century,” Hope Dies Last forms a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an inheritance for those who, by taking a stand, are making concrete the dreams of today. For Terkel, these interviews represent a change that has taken place in the last few years of uncertainty in America.
“The Good War” | The New Press
An Oral History of World War II The Pulitzer Prize–winning classic, with a new preface by the author “Tremendously compelling, somehow dramatic and intimate at the same time.” —The New York Times Book Review “The Good War”, for which Studs Terkel won the Pulitzer Prize, is a testament not only to the experience of war but to the extraordinary skill of Terkel as interviewer.
Pete Haywood And Studs Terkel On Forgiveness
As we reported in “Forced Relocation and Democratic Representation,” public housing residents convicted of certain felonies and misdemeanors within the last ten years are barred from running in the CHA elections being held today. Lloyd (“Pete”) Haywood, a lifetime resident of Stateway Gardens, has served for the last three years on the Stateway resident council. He is the only male on the council. And he contributes in a variety of ways to the life of the community.
AMERICAN THEATRE
When A Raisin in the Sun opened at the Barrymore Theatre on March 11, 1959, the late Lorraine Hansberry became Broadway’s first black woman playwright—and, in short order, the chronicler of the black experience and struggle for a generation of Americans.
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