The New York Times bestselling memoir of Anthony Rapp, star of Broadway's Pulitzer Prize–winning musical Rent.Anthony Rapp had a special feeling about Jonathan Larson's rock musical Rent as early as his first audition, which won him a starring role as the video artist Mark Cohen. The Pulitzer Prize-winning Rent opened to thunderous acclaim off-Broadway—but even as friends and family were celebrating the show's fi...

Anthony Rapp captures the passion and grit unique to the theater world as he recounts his life-changing experience in the original cast of the Pulitzer Prize–winning musical Rent.Anthony Rapp had a special feeling about Jonathan Larson's rock musical Rent as early as his first audition, which won him a starring role as the video artist Mark Cohen. And when the show opened to thunderous acclaim off Broadway, Rapp knew that something truly extraordinary had taken sh...

By turns funny, moving, romantic and surreal, and filled with unexpected twists and turns, each of the tales on this lineup has a magical element.Andrew Lam's "The Palmist", performed by James Naughton. A chance encounter on a bus between a fortune-teller and a teenage boy.W. W. Jacobs' "The Monkey's Paw", performed by John Lithgow. A wonderful ghost story about a trinket with terrible powers.Saki's "The Occasional Garden", performed by Daniel Gerroll. If ...

From the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table, comes an anthology of gender-bent, race-bent, LGBTQIA+ inclusive retellings. Featuring stories by:Alexander Chee • Preeti Chhibber • Roshani Chokshi • Sive Doyle • Maria Dahvana Headley • Ausma Zehanat Khan • Daniel M. Lavery • Ken Liu • Sarah MacLean • Silvia Moreno-Garcia • Jessica Plummer • Anthony Rapp • Waubgeshig Rice • Alex Segura • Nisi Shawl • ...

A jury in New York on Thursday found that actor Kevin Spacey did not molest fellow actor Anthony Rapp when he was 14 years old. Rapp, 50, had brought a $40 million lawsuit against Spacey, 63, claiming that Spacey had preyed on him during the 1980s when both were relatively unknown actors on Broadway. The jury is case used less than an hour to give his verdict on this matter.This book is an excellent read if you're looking for complete, accurate answers and a detailed account of Kevi...

"Die spinnen" - die Zeitschrift für Ideengeschichte widmet sich in der Winterausgabe einer alten Idee: dem Kult des Netzes und der ständigen Vernetzung. Schon lange vor Big Data und der Digitalisierung unserer Lebenswelt beschrieben Vernetzungen und gedankliche Verknüpfungen die Praxis des Polyhistors. Gerade die Frühe Neuzeit war geprägt von Gruppenkulturen mit ihren Verflechtungen von Regeln, Normen und Werten. Überall waren Netze, und über Kontinente wurde sie gesponnen. Von den Gelehrt...

The iPod has become a full-blown cultural phenomenon, giving us a new vocabulary (we shuffle our iTunes on our nanos), revolutionizing the way we experience music and radio through the invention of podcasting, opening up new outlets for video, and challenging the traditional music industry as never before. The design itself has become iconic: there is even a shade of white now called iPod White.Steven Levy has had rare access to everyone at Apple who was involved i...