Trumpet and drums—a truly primal combination—are joined by the delicately trilling, archaic and arcane sounds of the Chinese lute or pipa on Dark Lady of the Sonnets, Wadada Leo Smith 's musical ...

Actors who played the role of Paradise: Edward Crowley [Off-Broadway] ...

These have been called the "Dark Lady" sonnets for quite a while now because of their focus, in contrast to the preceding 126, which Shakespeare addressed for the most part to a Fair Youth, on a ...

I just really liked those sonnets. The fact that people call her “the Dark Lady”, although Shakespeare calls her “Black” over and over again, is fascinating to me. We don’t know who she was.

In her book, “Lucy Negro, Redux,” Williams takes on — and takes inspiration from — Shakespeare’s Dark Lady sonnets. Her poems embrace, reimagine and throw caution to the wind with great ...

The real-life character is Smith's mother, whose radiant personality loomed larger-than-life in her hometown in the Mississippi Delta. Smith celebrates her in a long, elegiac chart on Dark Lady of the ...

Actors who played the role of Lucian: Thomas Barbour [Off-Broadway] ...