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Mmysterymarple.bsky.social

Sure, I'll put on full dress and gloves if it'll get me a #readingbreak#vintage#momlife#writerslife#histfic#mystery#mysterywriter

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Mmysterymarple.bsky.social

Break over...back to work! I'll be the one digging out from emails and social media posts... #vintage#momlife#writerslife#histfic#historicalmystery#historicalromance#socialmedia#holidaybreak

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Mmaximinalist.bsky.social

Reviewed the David Henry Hwang's Broadway play YELLOW FACE, starring Daniel Dae Kim. Incidentally before I was assigned, I saw a NYPL-recording of a much earlier off-Broadway production where the casting was of a white-Asian binary, unlike the more multiracism of the Broadway production.

'Yellow Face' review — Daniel Dae Kim leads a thoughtful comedy about identity | New York Theatre Guide
'Yellow Face' review — Daniel Dae Kim leads a thoughtful comedy about identity | New York Theatre Guide

Read our review of *Yellow Face* on Broadway, an acclaimed comedy play written by David Henry Hwang and starring *Lost* and *Hawaii Five-0*'s Daniel Dae Kim. Read all our theatre reviews at NewYorkTh...

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DFdean.bsky.social

#RIP John Amos Man that was some cast in 1989’s NY Shakespeare Festival Central Park production of "Twelfth Night". Here’s Director Harold Gaskin working with Michelle Pfeiffer & Amos. 📷 Martha Swope, 1989 NYPL digital collections

Michelle Pfeiffer in boots & a long coat. <swoon>
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DFdean.bsky.social

#RIP John Amos With Dick O'Neill, Billie Lou Watt and Lillian Hayman in Steve Gordon’s Tough to Get Help, 1972 Directed by Carl Reiner 📷 Friedman-Abeles NYPL digital collection

A pleased John Amos is poured a glass of wine
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DFdean.bsky.social

#RIP John Amos With Jeff Goldblum in the New York Shakespeare Festival production of the play "Twelfth Night" at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park 📷 Martha Swope, 1989 NYPL digital collections

Goldblum in a nightcap & nightgown, & John Amos in a three-piece suit, onstage
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DFdean.bsky.social

#RIP John Amos With Gregory Hines in a rehearsal shot from the New York Shakespeare Festival production of the play "Twelfth Night" at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park 📷 Martha Swope, 1989 NYPL digital collections

Hines & Amos in a large rehearsal space. Hines, on his back with his arms & legs in the air, is breaking up Amos, who wears a Mickey Mouse t-shirt.
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DFdean.bsky.social

October Century, 1896 NYPL digital collection This is lovely.

Magazine poster:

October Century.

A sailing ship in silhouette against a red setting sun, on stylized waves. Above, stylized clouds.
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