Theatrical Outfit stages a winning comedy by Lauren Gunderson imagining a French Revolution gathering of four women, ...

The polka-dotted phenomenon land their spaceship in Leeds for an ecstatic show that balances supremely complex musicianship with ridiculous good fun The proud tradition of bands performing in barmy ...

Cinco de Mayo is known for festive dances and margaritas celebrating Mexican culture, but the holiday's roots actually trace back to a battlefield milestone. Contrary to popular misconceptions, Cinco ...

“Why her?” the journalist Mark Oppenheimer writes toward the end of his first biography, “Judy Blume: A Life.” “What is it about Judy and her work that won her so many millions of fans?” Partly talent ...

Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie Antoinette, and Haitian rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, and try to beat back the ...

Dutch drummer Sebastiaan de Krom (Dordrecht, 1970) plays drums with jazz artists like Geoff Gascoyne and Jamie Cullum. He started playing drums at age three. Sebastiaan de Krom received his frst ...

ABSTRACT: This paper examines the role of women in shaping discourses of gender equality during the French Revolution (1789-1794), situating their activism within the intellectual framework of the ...

Olympe de Gouges is a name you might remember from your history classes as another casualty of the French Revolution’s bloody Reign of Terror. It’s names like ...

In 1950, James Baldwin and his lover, the painter Lucien Happersberger, set out from Paris for the mountains of Switzerland, where Baldwin, then around 25, hoped to climb his way out of a creative ...

Synopsis: Locked up in her cell at the Conciergerie shortly before her trial, Olympe de Gouges confided in Fabien, her jailer, before being taken before the Revolutionary Tribunal presided over by ...