“Kate Shindle is compiling quite the résumé. Once she was Miss America. Now she’s a labor leader, the president of Actors’ Equity. And this week she began playing the nation’s most famous lesbian cartoonist, Alison Bechdel, in the touring production of the Tony-winning Fun Home.”
First-Ever ‘Nobel Of Philosophy’, $1M Berggruen Prize, To Charles Taylor
“The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor has been named the winner of the first Berggruen Prize, which is to be awarded annually for ‘a thinker whose ideas are of broad significance for shaping human self-understanding and the advancement of humanity.'”
Philadelphia Orchestra Board Approves New Contract; Musicians Do Pop-Up Concerts All Over Town To Celebrate
“Musicians of the Philadelphia Orchestra fanned out across the region Tuesday, chatting up fans, playing in string quartets and wind quintets, and doing a little damage control.”