Icons10 Stars Who Defined Broadway’s Golden Age
Ten performers who filled the theaters of the 1940s to 1960s with unaided voice and turned the American musical into Broadway's golden age.
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A wide-ranging exploration of human creativity across the visual, performing, literary, and applied disciplines. From painting and sculpture to dance, poetry, and design, we celebrate the craft, ideas, and stories behind every art form and the people who bring them to life.
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Icons10 Storytellers Who Kept Traditions Alive
Ten voices, from a Blasket Island seanchaí to a Harlem street poet, who carried the world's stories through a century that kept trying to silence them.
Icons10 Puppeteers Who Defined the Art Form
Ten pairs of hands, from the bunraku stage to the television studio, that taught the modern world how to believe in a puppet again.
Circus Arts10 Circus Legends of the Big Top Century
Ten performers and showmen who turned the traveling circus, from the 1870s to the 1970s, into the greatest show on earth, one impossible feat at a time.
Film & Cinema10 Comedians Who Defined Silent Comedy
Ten comedians who taught the movies how to be funny, from the pratfalls of the silent screen to the first wisecracks of sound.
Film & Cinema10 Playwrights Who Defined the Modern Stage
Ten writers, from a Norwegian parlor to a Lagos courtyard, who taught the modern stage what a play could carry.
Film & Cinema10 Directors Who Defined World Cinema
Ten directors who, between the 1940s and the 1980s, made cinema a language the whole world could speak.