Monday, March 16, 2020
A Norwegian knitting marathon. America's Next Top Model. British crime dramas. Real-time strategy games. Peanut soup. These are some things that help us feel better — maybe they'll work fo…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:12AMSunday, February 12, 2017
Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber hit a milestone this past week. He's the first since Rodgers and Hammerstein to have four musicals running simultaneously on Broadway.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:06AMSunday, February 5, 2017
Actress Anika Noni Rose discusses her new show The Quad. The series follows success and scandal on the campus of a fictional historically black university.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:12AMSaturday, December 31, 2016
The Grey's Anatomy co-star tells NPR's Michel Martin he's seen the effects of his actions in the public consciousness and discourse. He says he's inspired by black women and the black LGBTQ …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:42PMTuesday, November 22, 2016
Stephen Agyei is a Denver-based comedian who's ready to quit his day job and take his comedy full time. The Daily Show's Roy Wood Jr.'s advice? Move to a coast.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:48PMMonday, November 7, 2016
Nancherla is riding high with a new TV special, a tour and a new album, Just Putting It Out There — all while dealing with some difficult personal issues, like depression and anxiety, on s…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:48PMSunday, October 30, 2016
Director, actor and choreographer Debbie Allen's multimedia musical Freeze Frame examines the lives of young people living in cities with the backdrop of violence and police shootings.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:36PMSunday, July 31, 2016
The actress, who won a Tony in 1997 for her role in Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida, returns to Broadway after 15 years, to play nightclub singer Shug Avery in a revival of The Color Purple.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:38PMFriday, July 29, 2016
Actor Jonathan Pryce is playing the Jewish moneylender in a new touring production of The Merchant of Venice that reimagines Shakespeare's supposedly-comic villain as a tragic and universal …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:04PMSaturday, April 9, 2016
When the Broadway musical's creator said the life of Alexander Hamilton embodied hip-hop, people laughed. Now, he's written a book about the national phenomenon with former critic Jeremy McC…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:18PMTuesday, March 1, 2016
Adam Grant, author of Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, tells us what makes an original, how parents can nurture originality in their children, and its potential downside.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:36AMMonday, February 15, 2016
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the late Justice Antonin Scalia were ideologically at the opposite ends of the Supreme Court bench. Despite their dissenting opinions, they were also great fr…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:26PMTuesday, January 12, 2016
"It must be lovely to be beautiful, but that's a really difficult thing to lose," says Smith, now 81. Best known in the U.S. for her role in Downton Abbey, she's now starring in The Lady in …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:19AMTuesday, December 22, 2015
Kliph Nesteroff's book digs into the origins of modern comedy, from the segregated Chitlin' Circuit to the vaudeville refugees who found a new home in the Catskills, to the very first female…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:55AMTuesday, December 8, 2015
This week on Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam looks at what we find funny and what, well, crosses the line. Comedian Bill Burr joins us to talk about why race, gender and Caitlin Jenner can be…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:44AMSaturday, November 14, 2015
Since she was in her 20s, the dancer and choreographer has been rewriting the rules for what dance can be. Now she's on her 50th anniversary tour, premiering new works with longtime collabor…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:40PMSaturday, November 7, 2015
Tony Award winner Lea Salonga has long been a star on stage and screen. But she learned her grit and confidence years earlier — when she overcame allergy (and dog) attacks to win the role …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:51PMSaturday, October 31, 2015
"My ability to see what's going on in a room or analyze what's going on inside a person comes from my own doubts about what's going on inside myself," he says. Hare's memoir is The Blue Touc…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:50AMWednesday, September 30, 2015
Dorrance was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship on Tuesday. For her, tap dance is the ultimate art form; "To be able to be a dancer and a musician at the same time — there's nothing like it," …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:20AMSunday, August 2, 2015
When comics tell jokes about the news, they're bound to come up with similar punch lines. But comedy writer Larry Getlen says that, while joke theft does happen, it's still rare.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:03PMSaturday, August 1, 2015
The duo Penn Jillette and Raymond Teller are back on Broadway. They both talk — yes, even Teller — with NPR's Scott Simon about magic, danger and the remarkable endurance of their 40-yea…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:26PMSaturday, March 7, 2015
The housewife and superstar — a creation of Australian comedian Barry Humphries — says it's not entirely clear what her retirement will look like. "I'm a restless spirit," she says.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:29AMSaturday, February 7, 2015
Hedwig and the Angry Inch's hero is once again being played by the man who created every punk and glam-rock inch of her. "I feel like I'm doing this to find out what's next in my life," Mitc…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:45AMFriday, February 6, 2015
"I like to interject, and there's no interjections here," says the comedian behind Curb Your Enthusiasm. It's "very unnatural for an interrupter." David makes his Broadway debut in Fish in t…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:10PMSaturday, December 27, 2014
Now in her late 60s, Martin says she's still "excited and enthusiastic" about her work and doesn't have any intention of retiring. She published a memoir in September called Lady Parts.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:45PMThursday, December 11, 2014
Close stars as a suburban matron in a revival of Edward Albee's 1966 play. She tells NPR about the timelessness of Albee's play and getting a nosebleed in the middle of a recent matinee.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:23PMSaturday, November 1, 2014
Adam Driver is famous for his role in HBO's Girls and his major (and mysterious) part in the next Star Wars film. Less famous: The former Marine's nonprofit organization, Arts in the Armed F…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:21PMTuesday, September 9, 2014
In her new children's book, Firebird, Copeland seeks to inspire other young African-American dancers. "It's hard to be the one that stands out," she says.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:30AMMonday, August 4, 2014
As the son of a preacher, Kenrick "ICE" McDonald often had to practice his magic tricks in secret while he was growing up. Now he's the first black president of the Society of American Magic…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:19AMAs the son of a preacher, McDonald often had to practice his magic tricks in secret while he was growing up. Now he's the first black president of the Society of American Magicians.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:19AMMonday, August 26, 2013
Patina Miller first got noticed on the theater scene in 2009 as the star of Sister Act: A Divine Musical Comedy. She earned rave reviews for playing the accidental nun who led a choir to sta…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:57PM 
