September 10, 2009, Filed Under: Theatre + Performing ArtsPlaywright Terrence McNally’s connections Four-time Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally is a frequent focus of theater news these days.
September 8, 2009, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsFrom the Galleries: Poe in popular culture Poe’s influence on varied and broad swaths of popular culture—hard-boiled detective fiction, horror and suspense films, song lyrics, crime-scene-analysis dramas, graphic novels—seems to prove Allen Ginsberg’s claim that “everything leads to Poe.” Immortalized in the minds of readers and fans—as well as in television, film, t-shirts, and collectibles—Poe continues to… read more
September 8, 2009, Filed Under: Exhibitions + EventsNew exhibitions open today Two new exhibitions, From Out That Shadow: The Life and Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe and Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works, open today at the Ransom Center. In conjunction with the International Year of Astronomy in 2009, the exhibition Other Worlds: Rare Astronomical Works, drawn exclusively from the Center’s collections,… read more
