The 19th-century actress Sarah Bernhardt is feted at The Jewish Museum in New York City. Co-creators Carol Ockman of Williams College and Kenneth Silver of New York University tell Scott Simon about ...

(JNS) Carol Ockman, art history professor emerita at Williams College, wrote her first book proposal in the 1990s, years before she knew she would co-curate an exhibit on the same topic at New York’s ...

They were pioneers in the business of superstardom more than a century ago. Behind the scenes, legendary actors Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse were also entrepreneurs who ran their own companies ...

Tony Award winner Janet McTeer steps into the slippers of legendary French stage performer Sarah Bernhardt as she shrugs off gender constraints to claim Shakespeare's gloomy prince as her own in ...

As actress Sarah Bernhardt reveled in her late-19th century fame, her unconventional offstage behavior — from sleeping in a coffin to riding in a hot air balloon — both intrigued and scandalized ...

PARIS – The pioneering French stage star Sarah Bernhardt was one of the world’s most famous women by the time of her death in 1923 — a status she owed not just to acting talent but her modern instinct ...

Mark Twain once identified five kinds of actresses: "bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses -- and then there is Sarah Bernhardt." Bernhardt was, indeed, one of a kind. From ...

Nineteenth-century theater legend Sarah Bernhardt was worshiped in her native France, and later became a global superstar — the ultimate diva of her time. A compelling musical biography, “The Divine ...

Janet McTeer and Brittany Bradford in Bernhardt/Hamlet. Photo: Joan Marcus Rebeck clearly wants to free Bernhardt from this barrage of male analysis, to give her the space to speak anew and for ...

Of all desserts, I love cookies the most. I'd rather have a good cookie than a fancy-schmancy dessert. Not counting my Mexican recipe collection, the biggest file I have contains all the cookies I'd ...