When actor Zahra Newman saw Audra McDonald play Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill on Broadway in 2014, she immediately had two thoughts. “One, that I definitely wanted to try and do it,” she recalls, “and the second that I was terrified! I felt that I…
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“I have put my genius into my life and only my talent into my works,” Oscar Wilde fibbed, having liberally sprinkled his genius over the likes of Salome, The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Importance of Being Earnest. More truthfully, he acknowledged his stories contained scant action, saying, “My…