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The insider turmoil looming over the Grammy Awards was summed up pretty succinctly early in the ceremony on Sunday night. “Let me be honest with y’all,” Alicia Keys, the ceremony’s host, said in a pre-song spiel from behind the piano. “It’s been a hell of a week. Damn.” The longer version: A battle within the Recording Academy, the organization behind the awards show, came to a head 10 days before the ceremony when the academy’s new chief executive, Deborah Dugan, was removed from her position. Dugan, in a complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said the organization retaliated against her for exposing sexual harassment, corruption in the awards’ nominations process and conflicts of interest. The academy in turn said Dugan fostered a toxic work environment. Dugan’s tenure, as brief as it was — she joined in August — signaled what could have been a step forward for an institution criticized for a gender imbalance and lack of diversity. For a … [Read more...] about Alicia Keys Seems to Reference Grammys Turmoil in Speech

What books are on your night stand? “The Black Guy Dies First,” by Robin R. Means Coleman and Mark H. Harris; “The Survivalists,” by Kashana Cauley; “Mott Street,” by Ava Chin. What’s the last great book you read? “The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination From Harry Potter to the Hunger Games,” by Ebony Elizabeth Thomas. Describe your ideal reading experience (when, where, what, how). My wife and I have our kids read for a half-hour before we put them to bed. Sometimes all four of us will be crowded into Mom and Dad’s bed, each of us reading to ourselves, and I am blissful. Sometimes our old cat even jumps up there. Then it’s perfect. What’s your favorite book no one else has heard of? I will say not enough people have heard of it: “Corregidora,” by Gayl Jones. A masterpiece. Which writers — novelists, playwrights, critics, journalists, poets — working today do you admire most? My wife, Emily Raboteau, writes a great deal about climate these days so I’ve … [Read more...] about Victor LaValle Likes to Stare Directly at His Deepest Fears

Cyndi Lauper knows how to work a crowd. Making her Broadway debut as a composer with “Kinky Boots ,” the new musical that opened on Thursday night at the Al Hirschfeld Theater, this storied singer has created a love- and heat-seeking score that performs like a pop star on Ecstasy. Try to resist if you must. But for at least the first act of this tale of lost souls in the shoe business, you might as well just give it up to the audience-hugging charisma of her songs. “Kinky Boots,” with a book by Harvey Fierstein and directed by Jerry Mitchell, is a reminder that you don’t always have to be a masochist to enjoy being smashed by a steamroller. From the outset, this show comes rushing at you head-on, all but screaming: “Love me! Love me!” It’s a shameless emotional button pusher, presided over — be warned — by that most weary of latter-day Broadway archetypes, a strong and sassy drag queen who dispenses life lessons like an automated fortune cookie. Yet, for a good while, … [Read more...] about High Spirits, Higher Heels