Posted in exhibition, Theater Portraits on May 3rd, 2006
It has been a good spring for Solowey admirers. Ben’s work has been on view in a number of museums and galleries. Close to the Solowey Studio, one can go to the Sabine Rose Gallery in Doylestown, Pennsylvania to see four still lifes in their colorful still life show on right now. The Metropolitan Opera […]
Read Full Post »
Posted in Rae, Theater Portraits on May 3rd, 2006
More than twenty years ago, the writer Helen Papashvilly, a long time friend of Rae’s, tried to coax an autobiography from Rae by asking her questions about her life in the voluminous correspondence they shared. What follows are lightly edited selections from those letters. In this fragment, Rae writes about her arrival in New York […]
Read Full Post »
Posted in exhibition, Theater Portraits on Sep 1st, 2005
On the east side of Broadway between 50th and 51st Street stands the Winter Garden Theatre, the home of many theater milestones: West Side Story, Funny Girl, Mame, and the longest running musical in Broadway history, Cats. Currently it houses the jukebox musical, Mamma Mia! The property first entered the history books as the American […]
Read Full Post »