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Friday, April 2, 2021

Hanif Abdurraqib Celebrates Black Performance by Lauretta Charlton

In "A Little Devil in America," Abdurraqib moves from Master Juba to Josephine Baker to Sun Ra to Patti LaBelle to "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."

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Friday, January 15, 2016

An Exclusive Guided Look Inside the Upcoming Hamilton Book by Lauretta Charlton

In 2007, Jeremy McCarter, at the time a theater critic for New York, wrote a glowing review of Lin-Manuel Miranda's Off Broadway production In the Heights, praising it as "a musical that owe…

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Wednesday, October 21, 2015

Is Hamilton Technically Impressive Rap? Talib Kweli Analyzes the Broadway Smash by Lauretta Charlton

Rap and show tunes don't make the most obvious of bedfellows. Fans of, say, Eric B & Rakim seem to have little in common with those of Rodgers and Hammerstein " and vice versa. But the o…

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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Kelly Clarkson on Television, Broadway, and (Maybe) Returning to American Idol by Lauretta Charlton

What's not to love about Kelly Clarkson? She was American Idol's first winner " and arguably the most successful one. But that was 13 years ago, when bleach-blonde highlights were still…

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