A rare color photograph of the Center Theater during the run of Pinocchio in the winter of 1940.
Photo: Deja View/Driving for Deco
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Rarig Center, University of Minnesota - Minneapolis. Ralph Rapson.
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What I think they’re up to 😂 (I love your art btw!)
HAHAHAHAHDDKFSG GOD I LOVE THISSS
i love the berry besties hc. they are indeed a bundle. a fruit basket
and thank u so much lovely ;3; im glad my art can bring yall sm joy LOL
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Christopher Lloyd and Christopher Walken in the stage production Macbeth at Lincoln Center
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Oh shit I totally forgot to tell yall I saw Beetlejuice! My mom surprised me with last-minute tickets, and we got to go! I loved every bit of it
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a while back, a youtuber I like posted a video about "the oldest joke in the world" which referenced several times the play "the frogs" by Aristophanes, so recently I picked it at the library because why not
I'm so glad I did, this shit is way, way funnier than I expected.
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Break a leg Corruption Company! This play gives me life, it’s just such good theatre!
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The Center Theater, NYC, 1948
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Interesting thing about Lincoln.
As a person and a politician, he was defined by his way with words. He was a lawyer, which involves speaking in courtrooms and appealing to audiences. He rose to national prominence because of how well he did in a series of public debates. He wrote speeches that have lasted through the ages because of their concise yet vivid phrasing.
He understood the world through the lens of storytelling. He had anecdotes for every situation, and constantly used them to provide metaphors explaining his stances or his strategy or his view of an issue.
As president during a Civil War, a huge part of his job was crafting the narrative explaining what they were fighting for. The Gettysburg Address reframed the national narrative so the founding moment of the country wasn't the ratification of the Constitution--as the South claimed--but the Declaration of Independence that listed the ideals that all the states should be held to. Of course, the South was doing the same thing, so that the conflict was not only a battle of muskets and cannons--it was a war of stories.
And he was killed by an actor.
In a theater.
He was struck down by an opposing storyteller in a palace of artifice. An actress made a point of cradling his dying head in her lap so she could have a part in the drama. He lived by stories and died as the center of one, in a place made for telling such stories.
It's poetic and tragic and so shockingly fitting that the war of stories claimed him as its central victim.
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We have the first rehearsal photos for Corruption at @ LCTheater!!! Yesterday Lincoln Center Theater began rehearsals. The play is written by J.T. Rogers and directed by Bartlett Sher and will begin previews on Thursday, February 15! Tickets go on sale on Friday!
Photos: Chasi Annexy
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