This story originally ran in Issue 632, published on June 11th, 1992.
As a storyteller, every journalist strives for wholeness and symmetry, for a narrative that after all its circumnavigation returns to the beginning, as if to say, “Here, enclosed, is an entire world.” In both the subject and the assignment itself, my profile of Johnny Clegg — the pop star and political activist in South Africa — afforded a remarkable sense of coming full circle.
It was in the late Seventies, in the years immediately after the Soweto uprising, that I became fully...
As a storyteller, every journalist strives for wholeness and symmetry, for a narrative that after all its circumnavigation returns to the beginning, as if to say, “Here, enclosed, is an entire world.” In both the subject and the assignment itself, my profile of Johnny Clegg — the pop star and political activist in South Africa — afforded a remarkable sense of coming full circle.
It was in the late Seventies, in the years immediately after the Soweto uprising, that I became fully...
- 7/18/2019
- by Samuel G. Freedman
- Rollingstone.com
With The Suit, theater director Peter Brookwhose 1987 production of The Mahabharata inaugurated the Bam Majestic Theater now the Bam Harvey Theaterreturns to Bam with Thtre des Bouffes du Nord to showcase his signature approach of innovative stage design and the integration of live music. Written by Can Themba, The Suit was adapted for the stage by Mothobi Mutloatse, and Barney Simon.
- 1/17/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
With The Suit, theater director Peter Brookwhose 1987 production of The Mahabharata inaugurated the Bam Majestic Theater now the Bam Harvey Theaterreturns to Bam with Thtre des Bouffes du Nord to showcase his signature approach of innovative stage design and the integration of live music. Written by Can Themba, The Suit was adapted for the stage by Mothobi Mutloatse, and Barney Simon.
- 12/12/2012
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
People across the nation have been asking me why I have embarked on my 50-state Arts in Crisis speaking tour. I always answer, truthfully, that I am concerned that so many arts organizations are making poor decisions as they attempt to cope with the current economic crisis. They are cutting programming first, rather than last, and sacrificing long-term revenue for short-term expense savings. But there is a second, equally truthful, motivation for this tour, and for all of my national and international efforts to educate arts managers: Barney Simon. Barney Simon was the founder and artistic director of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg, South Africa. He made the Market a place where white artists and black artists could work together. In a South Africa brutalized by apartheid, this was not simply a noble mission, it was...
- 8/31/2009
- by Michael Kaiser
- Huffington Post
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