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Mary-Mitchell Campbell to Receive 2026 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award

Mary-Mitchell Campbell to Receive 2026 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award

Published by Daniella Wilson

Broadway music director and philanthropist Mary-Mitchell Campbell will receive the 2026 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award for her advocacy work through the arts.  Campbell, a Grammy and Drama Desk Award-winning music director, conductor, orchestrator, composer and arranger, has led the music department for more than a dozen Broadway shows including Death Becomes Her, Once Upon A Mattress and Some Like it Hot. As of 2022, Campbell also took on the role of music director for the ENCORES! series at New York City Center.  Her advocacy work includes working as a founding member of Musicians United for Social Equity and on the advisory board of MAESTRA, which advocates for the hiring of women and other underrepresented musicians. She has music directed as well as supervised numerous events for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, the Serious Fun Children’s Network and Kristin Chenoweth’s Broadway Bootcamp. In 2006, Mary-Mitchell Campbell joined forces with a group of Juilliard students to found Artists Striving to End Poverty, which helps young artists find their voice, which has since been rebranded as Arts Ignite. She …

Bryan Stevenson says facing the past isn’t a punishment; it’s a path : NPR

Bryan Stevenson says facing the past isn’t a punishment; it’s a path : NPR

Published by Sam Flores

Bryan Stevenson stands beside jars that hold dirt collected from sites where Black people were lynched. He is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative and the author of Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. Equal Justice Initiative hide caption toggle caption Equal Justice Initiative In his second term, President Trump has ordered the removal of monuments, plaques and exhibitions related to slavery, and the history of racial injustice in the U.S. Meanwhile, human rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson has been working to ensure evidence of America’s painful past is not erased. Stevenson’s nonprofit, the Equal Justice Initiative, opened the Legacy Museum in Montgomery, Ala., in 2018, to chronicle slavery and racism in America. A new exhibit, which is both located in and called Montgomery Square, begins in 1955 with the boycott of Montgomery’s segregated buses and ends 10 years later with the marches from Selma to Montgomery for voting rights. Stevenson describes Montgomery’s buses as “places of real peril” during Jim Crow. Black people were prohibited from sitting in the first 10 seats …

Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson

Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson

Published by José Betancourt

Benjamin Stevenson has quietly assembled one of the most entertaining mystery series in contemporary crime fiction. Beginning with Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone, he introduced readers to Ernest Cunningham — a Golden Age mystery devotee who keeps blundering into real ones — and each instalment has sharpened the formula. Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect gave Ernest a moving locked room. Everyone This Christmas Has a Secret put him in a festive gathering that turned murderous. Now, with Everyone in This Bank Is a Thief by Benjamin Stevenson, the series takes its most structurally ambitious swing yet: a bank heist where nearly everyone in the building has arrived with something to steal — and only one of them is after money. Ernest and his fiancée Juliette have driven seven hours into rural Queensland to pitch their last-chance loan application to Huxley’s Bank, a sandstone behemoth of a building in a gold-rush town still running largely on heritage and stubbornness. Before the meeting ends, a figure in a fencer’s sabre mask fires a …

Colby Stevenson nearly died in a car accident. Now he’s on the verge of a second Olympic medal.

Colby Stevenson nearly died in a car accident. Now he’s on the verge of a second Olympic medal.

Published by Sam Flores

Early on, Stevenson was mostly aided by his mother, though she eventually needed to return to work. His grandmother then stepped in to help — and that’s when his perspective started to change. She stayed with him for a few months and the two would play cards and go on short walks together around the neighborhood. “Those things brought me so much joy when I was in my darkest times,” Stevenson said. “I realized you don’t need a lot to be happy.” After five months of rehab, feeling better both physically and mentally, he put skis back on for the first time. Even though he was supposed to take it easy, he did a double cork 1080, which involves two full flips and a spin, “to prove to myself that it was going to be all good.” Even at his lowest, Stevenson said, he never gave up the dream of being a competitive skier. That was most evident at a FIS World Cup slopestyle event in the Italian Alps in 2017. All the anxiety he …