In the lawsuit that she filed this week over the custody of their daughters, Sophie Turner listed August 15 as a pivotal day in the deterioration of her relationship with Joe Jonas.
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Monumental Travesties, written by playwright-in-residence Psalmayene 24.“My thought was we would go to the rehearsal room, show you that,” he says, leading me through a maze of hallways, and up a stairway to the second floor. “And then meet Psalm and everybody, and then we could sneak peek into the theater.”Douglas is directing Monumental Travesties, a sharp, D.C.-set comedy centered around a Black performance artist’s radical response to the Emancipation Memorial, that statue of Lincoln lording over a formerly enslaved man on his knees erected nearly 150 years ago in Capitol Hill’s Lincoln Park.Featuring Renee Elizabeth Wilson, Jonathan Feuer, and Louis E.
Davis, as the artist, Chance, who removes Lincoln’s head and leaves it in his neighbor’s bushes, the play marks the beginning of Douglas’ second full season helming Mosaic alongside managing director and co-founder Serge Seiden.One of the few Black gay artistic directors in the nation stewarding a professional regional company, Douglas admits he isn’t immune to pressure, but his overriding sense of excitement and enthusiasm permeates the building.“Produce from a place of peace,” he says. “I find us theater people, sometimes it’s like, it always has to be crazy and frantic.
I was like, actually we can just be organized and efficient and kind. So that’s our spirit.”In that spirit, Douglas has been producing and directing since he was a third-grader staging an originally devised puppet production of Winnie the Pooh with a cast of Beanie Babies.“I was a theater kid, arts kid my whole life and I went to Sister Circle, a theater camp with Miss Elaine,” he recalls.
In the lawsuit that she filed this week over the custody of their daughters, Sophie Turner listed August 15 as a pivotal day in the deterioration of her relationship with Joe Jonas.
[claiming she was] partying and doing this,” she said.‘This is a person who is a mom to young kids, but also a very successful person.
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When Davina McCall tells OK! she’s “having the time of her life”, we don’t doubt it for a second. As we catch up with the radiant presenter, it’s obvious from the get-go that she’s happier than ever. She has another exciting new TV show on her hands with pet project My Mum, Your Dad, and has been working on her own fashion collection.
“Just Because,” and got busy instead promoting his skills as an expert foot finagler when he decided to give co-host Joy Behar some love, affection and a hilarious foot rub. “This is my dad’s trick,” the 53-year-old Texan explained while pampering Behar, 80.
sold her production company, Hello Sunshine, which she co-founded in 2012, for $900 million, a number that likely prompted rumors of a 10-digit net worth.In June, Forbes released a list of the wealthiest self-made women in various industries. Witherspoon slotted in at #59, just after singer Dolly Parton, with a net-worth of $440 million – while other women who reportedly had higher net worths have acted, she was the first woman on the list whose primary occupation was acting.Speaking of the success she has generated throughout her career, Witherspoon says the opinions of others are not valuable to her.“I think I started so young, and rejection was such an early piece of my life that I learned a long time ago that other people’s opinions of me are none of my business,” she shared.“I really don’t care what anybody thinks.
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Charter CEO Chris Winfrey indicated that little progress has been made in the week-long carriage fight with Disney and he said a leaner, ESPN-free TV bundle “could stick” with price-sensitive Spectrum customers.
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