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Broadway Tunes a Source of Samples for Pop and Hip-Hop Artists 

When hip-hop began crashing pop culture’s party in the 1980s, Broadway didn’t seem like one of its potential destinations. Hip-hop’s South Bronx birthplace was 11 miles and a cultural world away from the theater district. https://youtu.be/10C-Q3NIlzU?si=_qkxFl8rrFT9cffY However, as hip-hop began infiltrating the mainstream, and eventually becoming the mainstream, it was perhaps inevitable that beats and rhymes would reach the Broadway stage.  By the time Hamilton blew... Continue Reading →

Theatrical Event Immerses Audiences in Magic

Straz Center is bringing you an evening of illusion and sleight-of-hand, one where a magician might just lay their cards on the table. Your table. Your table, one of 12 at The Magicians Table, will seat a dozen guests at a celebration of life. The honoree is Dieter Roterberg, famed carnival owner and magician. Jaeb... Continue Reading →

Rock Has a Home on Broadway

An Exclusive from INSIDE Magazine Do you know the first-time rock ’n’ roll was on Broadway?  Easy. Mott the Hoople played six shows in the Uris (now The Gershwin) Theatre May 7-11, 1974. Queen opened. The first time rock ’n’ roll was on Broadway? As a musical style considered wholly legit by theater audiences and professionals?... Continue Reading →

Small Instrument, Big Sound

That buzz of anticipation you’ve been feeling recently will peak Saturday, April 18. We’re speaking, of course, about National Harmonica Day, a day set aside for us to celebrate, contemplate and participate with this small instrument and its big sound. Unlike most musical instruments, the harmonica is small. In fact, it’s compact enough to fit... Continue Reading →

High School Musical Still Resonates With Its Audience

Congratulations, millennials. Your past has become nostalgia. Case in point: High School Musical turns 20 this year. Those fictional East High students now are in their mid-30s with careers, mortgages and kids of their own, as are many of the Disney Channel movie’s real-life fans. Case in point: Natasha Herrera Brown, Straz’s media relations manager,... Continue Reading →

Finding the Magic in ‘Hot Cross Buns’

There is something inherently beautiful about human beings making music together. Differences and divisions dissolve in the warm glow of musical camaraderie. It follows then that gathering 15 grown-ups to play an instrument most people haven’t touched since elementary school is a noble effort. Further, getting that group to play the beloved traditional folk number,... Continue Reading →

BEHIND THE PERSONA: DARCI LYNNE

AN EXCLUSIVE FROM INSIDE MAGAZINE Darci Lynne has forever shattered ventriloquism’s glass ceiling. Beginning with an astounding turn on America’s Got Talent when she was 12, Darci has become a nationally-known entertainer and has introduced ventriloquism to a new generation. Performing with a puppet helped Darci overcome her shyness and express her love of performing.... Continue Reading →

Eddie Izzard Is Comedy’s Marathon Woman

What can you say about a performer who willingly takes on 23 roles in a one-person show? If you replied, “probably the same sort of performer who would run a marathon followed with a stand-up comedy set, every day for a month” that would be oddly specific. But you’d be correct. Eddie Izzard ’s acclaimed... Continue Reading →

ARTISTS WE LOVE: ALICIA KEYS

Bob Dylan’s 2006 album, Modern Times, kicked off with a track called “Thunder on the Mountain” which contains these lines: I was thinkin’ ‘bout Alicia Keys, couldn't keep from cryingWhen she was born in Hell's Kitchen, I was living down the lineI'm wondering where in the world Alicia Keys could beI been looking for her... Continue Reading →

Resilience Through Storytelling: How The Outsiders Gives Voice to Marginalized Youth and Inspires Across Generations

In 1967, a 16-year-old from Tulsa, OK., quietly shifted the landscape of American literature. Susan Eloise Hinton, known more publicly as S.E. Hinton wrote The Outsiders from her bedroom while still in high-school. What began as a response to the fractures she observed among her peers—the invisible line between those with privilege and those without—became... Continue Reading →

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