Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Kalfin co-founded the Chelsea Theater Center, which was known for provocative off-Broadway shows.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:55PMLansbury's acting career extended over an extraordinary seven decades. She says she knew early on that she'd never be "groomed to be a glamorous movie star" and thus sought out nontraditiona…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:55PMFriday, October 7, 2022
The new David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center, home of the New York Philharmonic, opens this week. And while the outside is the same, everything inside has changed.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:13AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Charles Fuller died on Monday in Toronto. He was 83. Fuller was best known for A Soldier's Play – which was turned into an Oscar nominated film, A Soldie…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:37PMMonday, October 3, 2022
All four of the playwright's grandparents died in the Holocaust, but Stoppard only learned he was Jewish in middle age. Now, at 85, he engages with his family history in the play Leopoldstad…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:49PMSaturday, October 1, 2022
Tom Stoppard's new play, "Leopoldstadt," grew from a midlife realization concerning how many of his relatives died in the Holocaust.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:03AMThursday, September 29, 2022
In 2014, a study found that only 1.4% of orchestra musicians were Black. In 2022, it's hard to know if that number is better or worse.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:25AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
It's been a year since Broadway started back up again - and there've been a lot of ups and downs. COVID still had the power to shut down shows, but performers and audiences persisted.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:43AMThursday, August 11, 2022
Rodgers, the daughter of theatrical legend Richard Rogers, was a songwriter, children's book author and philanthropist. Her memoir, Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers, is …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:07PMWednesday, July 27, 2022
The concert version of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods moves to Broadway, with Sara Bareilles, Brian D'Arcy James and others.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:33PMFriday, July 22, 2022
A concert version of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods stars Sara Bareilles, Brian d'Arcy James, Joshua Henry and others.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:33AMWednesday, July 20, 2022
The play is based on Khaled Hosseini's 2003 best-selling novel, set in Afghanistan and among Afghan migrants in the United States.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:54PMSunday, July 10, 2022
Casting a female actor in the lead role of "Richard III" is just one twist New York's Shakespeare in the Park has given the classic this summer.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:18AMGuirira said it was interesting to explore "toxic masculinity" as a perpetrator instead of an object - and that the role brought up a lot of questions.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:18AMMonday, June 13, 2022
Sunday's 75th annual Tony Awards celebrated Broadway's first full season since the pandemic shutdown. A theme of the night was deep gratitude for the uncelebrated people who keep the shows r…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:24PMSunday, June 12, 2022
Music directors aren't eligible for awards at tonight's Tonys. We hear from three from Tony-nominated shows, talking about their craft and the challenges of conducting eight performances a w…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:24PMFriday, May 13, 2022
Sanaz Toossi is having a moment – her first production ever, English, just won a Lucille Lortel award for outstanding new off-Broadway play, and Wish You Were Here opened last week.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:33PMMonday, May 9, 2022
These nominations are for Broadway's first season after the 2020 COVID shutdown.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:12PMSaturday, May 7, 2022
A new virtual art exhibition celebrates theater, movies and television with original sketches by Broadway set and costume designers.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:18PMWednesday, April 27, 2022
Seven comic actresses star in a new play by a 28-year-old up-and-coming playwright.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:24AMFriday, April 22, 2022
In 1964, the musical made a star out of 21-year-old Barbra Streisand. Now a new version features Beanie Feldstein.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:42AMSunday, April 17, 2022
Across the country, theaters and civic organizations commemorate the 23rd anniversary of the Columbine school shootings by presenting readings of eight short plays by teenagers.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:54PMYoung playwrights highlight the damage done by gun violence after winning a competition called #enough. Their performances are scheduled to occur on the date of the 1999 Columbine school sho…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:54PMThursday, April 14, 2022
James McAvoy stars in this Olivier-winning production that includes beatboxing — but no prosthetic nose.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:37AMSunday, March 20, 2022
A pop-up shop in a New York subway station is home to all things Broadway: memorabilia, live performances and handmade goods created by fans. Now, the shop's owners hope to find a permanent …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:18PMMonday, March 14, 2022
Lise Davidsen is in her mid-thirties, and she didn't even hear an opera live until she was in her twenties. Now, she's a sought-after opera singer.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:18AMMonday, February 14, 2022
An off-Broadway show, based on a 1931 novel, explores the results when a scientist charges Black people $50 each to change their race with his new invention.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:33AMSaturday, January 29, 2022
A few years ago, a children's book called A is for Audra celebrated musical theater divas. Its creators have written a new book, B is for Broadway, celebrating theater from auditions to Zieg…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:42PMSunday, January 23, 2022
Tickets may be easier and cheaper to get for the plays that are still open. Some producers reopened until the virus raced through the cast and crew. Future productions are hard to see on th…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:06AMFriday, January 14, 2022
Nottage, the only woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice, has a new play on Broadway, an opera at Lincoln Center and a Michael Jackson musical opening soon.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:12AMTuesday, January 11, 2022
The 'Saturday Night Live' cast member and 'Schmigadoon!' star performs in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe," a one-woman show made famous by Lily Tomlin.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:42PM 
