What was to have been the second new Broadway musical of the 2005-2006 season, The Mambo Kings, which folded in San Francisco after discouraging reviews, was based on Oscar Hijuelos' 1989 Pulitzer ...

Imagine that F. Scott Fitzgerald, 20 years after the publication of "The Great Gatsby," had written a sequel told from Daisy Buchanan's point of view. In it, young Jay Gatsby, an Army lieutenant from ...

Pentimenti are the shadows of images covered over by later brushwork that sometimes emerge in old paintings. As all good Lillian Hellman fans know, the word derives from the Italian “pentirsi” — to ...

Robert Kraft, the president of Fox Music, is the only studio music chief who can boast Oscar, Grammy and Golden Globe nominations as a songwriter (for “Beautiful Maria of My Soul” from 1992’s “The ...

For years, Ray Santos has been one Latin Music’s best kept secrets. Not anymore. His arrangement of Beautiful Maria of My Soul for the Hollywood movie, “The Mambo Kings,” was nominated for an Academy ...

What was to have been the second new Broadway musical of the 2005-2006 season, The Mambo Kings, which folded in San Francisco after discouraging reviews, was based on Oscar Hijuelos' 1989 Pulitzer ...