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.”

By Gabrielle Bellot

What the Paris Review Staff Read in 2022

By The Paris Review

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.

By Billboard Staff

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

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