Monday, January 29, 2024
The classic 1962 movie tells the story of a relationship buckling under the weight of addiction. The new Broadway adaptation stars Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:48AMTuesday, December 5, 2023
The musical is an adaptation of a Peabody award-winning HBO documentary — it follows seven young people at a group counseling center in Columbus as they get ready for a big dance.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:32AMSaturday, November 25, 2023
Long before The Backstreet Boys, a vocal sextet in Weimar Germany was silenced because three memebrs were Jewish. A new Broadway musical with a score by Barry Manilow tells their story.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:36AMMonday, October 23, 2023
When the composer/lyricist died in 2021 at age 91, he left behind a partly finished show called Here We Are. But his collaborators say Sondheim loved a puzzle — and he left them all the pi…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:49AMWednesday, September 27, 2023
In 1961, actor and Civil Rights activist Ossie Davis wrote the blistering play Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch. Now, Leslie Odom Jr. stars in the revival.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:33PMWednesday, August 30, 2023
The star of the Back to the Future: The Musical may be the car. The show's design team created a DeLorean that flies over the audience.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:55PMFriday, August 25, 2023
It flies over the audience and flips over — but that's not all that it does.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:55AMSaturday, July 22, 2023
Is "Here Lies Love" the future of Broadway? The immersive musical about Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos is a $22 million gamble. (Story first aired on Morning Edition on Julu 18, 2023.)
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:33AMTuesday, July 18, 2023
Here Lies Love tells the story of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos' rise and fall in the Philippines. The $22 million immersive musical production is a big Broadway gamble.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:13AMFriday, June 23, 2023
The Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist was one of the last masters of Broadway's Golden Age. His career extended over 60 years.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:25AMThursday, June 15, 2023
Glenda Jackson has died. One of the finest British actresses of her generation, Jackson won Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Awards. Fiercely political, she also served as a member of Parliament for de…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:19AMSunday, June 11, 2023
Only a handful of theater photographers work on Broadway and their challenge is to capture the essence of live performance. Ahead of the Tony Awards, we ask three about their craft.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:33AMSaturday, June 3, 2023
Producers have been saying for years that large Broadway orchestras are not financially feasible. In fact, the issue led to a strike 20 years ago. So why are some shows bringing them back?
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:42AMThursday, June 1, 2023
"We don't gender other people's professions," says actor Alex Newell. "You say ... I'm going to my dentist and I need to hire a plumber." But Broadway's highest honors have male/female disti…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:12AMSunday, April 30, 2023
Playwright Lorraine Hansberry's show, "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," opened last week on Broadway, almost 59 years ago since it first opened.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:24AMSaturday, April 15, 2023
On Sunday night the curtain will fall on the longest-running show in Broadway history: Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega hit ran for more than 35 years. "I got the gig of a lifetime," says one cast…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:36AMWednesday, March 29, 2023
Josh Groban, Michael Cerveris, Norm Lewis and Len Cariou all agree: It's exhausting playing a murderous sociopath, while dealing with stage blood, a mechanical barber chair and singing compl…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:24AMThursday, March 9, 2023
Topol — the actor who went by a single name and who appeared on stage as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof hundreds of times — has died.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:53PMThursday, March 2, 2023
The central character of “Becomes a Woman,” a play that just opened at Mint Theater Company in Manhattan, is named Francie Nolan – the same name as the protagonist of “A Tree Grows i…
SOURCE: gothamist.com at 05:08PMSaturday, February 11, 2023
Hansberry is best known for A Raisin in the Sun — but as she lay dying, she wrote this play about the haplessness of white liberals. Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:16PMWednesday, January 25, 2023
For every sports team, there are fans and there are super fans. For the Brooklyn Nets, that's 86-year-old Mr. Whammy — who tries to hex the opposing basketball team into missing their foul…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:14PMSaturday, January 21, 2023
Super fan Bruce Reznick, 86, has been a fixture at Nets games since before the team moved to Brooklyn.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:01AMSunday, January 8, 2023
The PROTOTYPE festival, now in its 10th year, presents new operas and music-theater works in smaller settings. "We were trying to create a black box opera movement," says co-founder Beth Mor…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:00AMMonday, January 2, 2023
You never know what'll hit or miss — but you can look at who wrote the script and score, and who's directing and starring. Here's what Jeff Lunden is keeping his eye on, both on and off-Br…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:01AMTuesday, December 6, 2022
Kelli O'Hara, Renée Fleming, and Joyce DiDonato star in a new opera based on Michael Cunningham's book.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:18PMFriday, December 2, 2022
The Museum of Broadway in New York has lots of history and is also an interactive attraction where you can step inside a set or learn what it takes to make a show.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:06PMSaturday, November 26, 2022
A new museum celebrating the history of Broadway is now in New York's theater district.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:42PMMonday, November 21, 2022
The South Korean cultural phenomenon is now a new musical, starring actual K-pop idols.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:36AMSunday, November 20, 2022
A new Broadway musical follows how global K-Pop superstars put everything on the line when one singer tries to dismantle one of the largest record labels in the industry.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:18AMSaturday, October 15, 2022
This production uses a cast of multi-racial actors who are female, nonbinary and trans — people who weren't even considered in the Declaration of Independence.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:07AMTuesday, October 11, 2022
Kalfin co-founded the Chelsea Theater Center, which was known for provocative off-Broadway shows.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:55PM 
