From Describe the Night. Watching the deliberate, origami-like unfolding of Rajiv Joseph’s dense and fascinating new play Describe the Night, directed by Giovanna Sardelli at Atlantic Theater Company, I found myself thinking of a tiger. Not the tiger you might expect, meaning the one at the center of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, which earned Joseph wide acclaim and a finalist nod for the 2010 Pulitzer. No — I was thinking of the tiger in The Life of Pi, Yann Martel’s novel about a young Indian boy who survives for 227 days on a raft after a shipwreck, with that great striped beast as his only companion … or does he? Read More...
A woman who started weightlifting to make maneuvering her son's wheelchair easier has become a bodybuilding sensation at 63 years old.
Tammy Kearn's son Daniel was born in 1978 with a form of muscular dystrophy which is 'a condition that causes congenital muscle weakness throughout the body and progressive deterioration of the muscles.'
The youngster needed to use a wheelchair by the time he was five years old and, as he got heavier with age and height, Tammy hit the gym in order to be able to push it for more freely. Read More...
Chip and Joanna Gaines cordially invite fans to watch them tackle their largest, most complicated project. Ever. And ET has a first look at the couple's upcoming new series, Fixer Upper: The Hotel, that documents the gargantuan effort.
In the trailer for the series slated to premiere Nov. 8 on Magnolia Network, Chip and Jo are cognizant of the fact that transforming a 100-year-old building into a boutique hotel in downtown Waco, Texas, back to its former glory will require a ton of manpower, long nights and strategic planning. Read More...