diva

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The pop diva attracted more than 144,000 visitors, almost half of them foreigners.

From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026

Pair that winning team with Williams’ tremendously campy performance as a fur-trimmed-leopard-print-wearing, her-way-or-the-highway, Capital-D diva, and you’ve got the ultimate reason why “A Christmas Carol” and Ebenezer Scrooge have maintained their relevance for 182 years.

From Salon • Dec. 24, 2025

That’s as fantastical of a demand as Sidney Lumet’s 1978 “The Wiz” insisting that the great diva Diana Ross’s Dorothy was a nervous nelly who’d never been south of Harlem’s 125th Street.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

This technological fossil produced rich portraits of the “Bugonia” characters for the big screen, but behaved like a diva behind the scenes.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 12, 2025

After settling the issue of the pear with Zach, he turns to Britney Harron, who fully inhabits her role as Truman Drama’s designated diva.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove