12.18.22
Hello…here is part two of our Ticker Tape.
Credit sources: Literary Hub, The Paris Review, Billboard, Playbill, The Hollywood Reporter, Entertainment Weekly
LITERATURE
The Kindred Adaptation Reclaims Octavia Butler’s “Grim Fantasy” for a New Era
Gabrielle Bellot: “No matter how long ago slavery might seem, it is always disquietingly close to us, both in time and memory.”
What the Paris Review Staff Read in 2022

Edgar Allan Poe Tours
The American Writers Museum is located in Chicago, Illinois. The dates: December 1-31, 2022. To get more information, please click here.
MUSIC
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour on Track to Sell $590M in Tickets. Here’s Where That Money Goes
Swift’s poised to become Billboard Boxscore’s highest-grossing female act, but her strategy to keep seats off the secondary market cost her ticket partners money.
BY DAVE BROOKS
The 20 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2022: Staff Picks
Billboard’s staff breaks down the year’s finest rap full-lengths.
THEATER
Queen Latifah Buys Out Performance of Ain’t No Mo’
The Chicago film star is the latest in a roster of stage and screen favorites buying out performances in support of the Broadway show.
BY LEAH PUTNAM

Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez in Merrily We Roll Along (Joan Marcus)
Merrily We Roll Along Revival Will Hit Broadway in 2023
Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff, and Lindsay Mendez star in the sold-out Sondheim revival, currently playing New York Theatre Workshop Off-Broadway.
BY LOGAN CULWELL-BLOCK
Classic Stage’s A Man of No Importance Plays Final Performance December 18
Boys in the Band star Jim Parsons is joined by Mare Winningham, Nathaniel Stampley, Shereen Ahmed, and more in the Ahrens and Flaherty musical.
BY LOGAN CULWELL-BLOCK
TV
How Jessica Chastain and Michael Shannon Changed a ‘George & Tammy’ Scene That Initially “Disturbed” Her
The co-stars transformed the debut episode interaction between the limited series’ title characters, including shifting a line of dialogue Shannon said sounded “a little neanderthal.”
BY ABBEY WHITE

Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain JON KOPALOFF/GETTY IMAGES
Until next time! Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, be safe, healthy, happy, and blessed.
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