BOOKS
ASTRO
POETS:
YOUR
GUIDES
TO THE
ZODIAC
By Alex Dimitrov
and Dorothea
Lasky
4
Celine
Dion
MUSIC
S TA G E THE INHERITANCE
5
→ It’s sure to be the big-
gest play of the Broadway
season—in buzz, in length,
and in the sheer number
of times your New Yorker
friends will ask, “Oh, have
you seen The Inheritance
yet?” Royally revered
stage director Stephen
Daldry (Billy Elliot and
the upcoming Wicked
movie, if it ever happens)
helms this ambitious
two-part epic (opening
Nov. 17) in which E.M.
Forster’s classic Howards
End is movingly reimag-
ined as a saga tracking the
interlinking lives of three
generations of gay men
in modern-day NYC.
Try to avoid the spoilers
in the rave reviews from
London; instead, settle
in for a snuggly six hours
of ethos, emotion, and
whatever snacks got you
through Angels in America.
Who is the Celine Dion
of the 2010s? On her first
English-language album
in six years (and soon
her first official tour in
more than 10), she’s a
woman dragged through
tragedy but reemerged
like a French-Canadian
phoenix, with style that
made her a fashion icon,
personality that made
her a social media darling,
and new music that
now caps the magnifi-
cent reascension of the
power-ballad beltress.
Courage (out Nov. 15)
overflows with anthems,
dancethems, and the
kind of freewheeling
symphonies that let her
wail at will and deliver the
stunning vocals no other
pop queen can. Who is
the new Celine Dion? The
same Celine f---ing Dion
she’s always been.
WRITERS
DIMITROV AND
LASKY—KNOWN
ON TWITTER
AS THE ASTRO
POETS—GAINED
FAME BY BLEND-
ING ASTROLOGY
WITH SOCIAL
MEDIA SAVVY.
NOW THE PAIR
(A SAGITTARIUS
AND AN ARIES,
RESPECTIVELY)
HAVE WRITTEN
A WITTY BOOK
FILLED WITH
POETRY, POP
CULTURE REFER-
ENCES, AND
COSMIC ADVICE
THAT MIGHT
JUST LEAVE
YOU WITH REAL
INSIGHTS INTO
FRIENDSHIP,
ROMANCE,
AND YOURSELF.
EW●COM NOVEMBER 2019 11
DION: IAN WEST/PA IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES;
THE INHERITANCE
: MARC BRENNER/WEST END PRODUCTION
