Tuesday, May 10, 2022
The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes in fiction, poetry, drama and other categories in arts and letters were announced in New York along with awards for journalism.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:54AMWednesday, April 13, 2022
The Library of Congress adds 25 new recordings to a national registry every year to be preserved for posterity. The 2022 list includes an album by Alicia Keys and historical broadcasts from …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:03PMThursday, March 3, 2022
The Shubert Organization has renamed Broadway's Cort Theatre in honor of the eminent actor who has won many accolades over the course of a career that spans more than six decades.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:18PMFriday, January 14, 2022
Teachout has died at the age of 65. He wrote acclaimed biographies of such arts figures as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and George Balanchine.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:42PMWednesday, January 5, 2022
David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Stevie Nicks and Shakira all recently sold off all or part of their back catalogs. Why forgo future royalties and creative control?
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:03AMFriday, December 24, 2021
Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, Stevie Nicks and Shakira all recently sold off all or part of their back catalogs. Why forgo future royalties and creative control over their songs?
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:03PMSunday, December 12, 2021
Michael R. Jackson put 20 years into polishing his audacious, autobiographical musical, and then theaters went dark. Now, 'A Strange Loop' is building buzz on its way to New York City.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:36PMTuesday, November 16, 2021
A new Apple TV+ show, The Shrink Next Door, seems to reflect a trend of non-Jewish actors playing emphatically Jewish characters, which recently caught the ire of comedian Sarah Silverman.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:06PMFriday, November 12, 2021
A new Apple+ TV show that is premiering Friday seems to reflect a trend of non-Jewish actors playing emphatically Jewish characters, which recently caught the ire of of comedian Sara Silverm…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:24AMThursday, July 22, 2021
The 44th Kennedy Center Honorees announced today include Motown founder Berry Gordy, folk icon Joni Mitchell, entertainer Bette Midler, TV impresario Lorne Michaels and opera star Justino DĂ…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:06AMTuesday, July 6, 2021
The beloved entertainer is often credited with having sparked a sexual revolution in Italy with her spangled midriff-baring costumes and frank lyrics about initiating sex â and falling for…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:54PMThursday, April 1, 2021
The new data show the drop in ticket sales at theaters, arts centers and orchestras in the United States, U.K. and Canada has been "catastrophic" for the performing arts.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:12PMWednesday, July 1, 2020
Nearly a thousand arts organizations across the country are receiving funds from the CARES Act. But the National Endowment for the Arts says the $44 million in grants it announced today is n…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:18PMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Kramer was a writer with an Oscar-nominated screenplay when his friends started dying mysteriously â galvanizing him to found the Gay Men's Health Crisis, and later ACT UP, to combat AIDS.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:03PMSunday, October 20, 2019
Alicia Alonso, one of the finest ballet dancers of the 20th century, died Thursday in Havana. The dancer helped start the American Ballet Theatre, then built the Cuban state ballet program.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:48AMSaturday, June 15, 2019
The Italian director staged sumptuously visualized operas, which often resembled Renaissance paintings brought to life. On film, he brought Shakespearean and biblical tales to the big screen.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:42AMThursday, October 12, 2017
The Siege is one of a number of plays depicting a Palestinian point of view that has been cancelled after pressure from American Jewish groups. One esteemed theater in New York reportedly pl…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:48PMTuesday, June 7, 2016
A new play about Harry Potter, written by J.K. Rowling, begins previews this week with Harry as a grown up. Grown, too, is the "Potter Generation," the kids who were the first to read the bo…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:30PMSaturday, April 23, 2016
The actor is now starring on Broadway in Eclipsed, a searing story of young women held captive in Liberia. After that and 12 Years a Slave, Nyong'o says she's ready for some lighter material.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:42PMMonday, November 9, 2015
Inspired by Takei's own childhood experiences, the musical spotlights a dark era in American history: The internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:34PMTuesday, October 13, 2015
The hit musical only closed six years ago, and now it's back, in a well-reviewed revival featuring hearing and deaf actors, who sing and sign during the performance.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:42PMTuesday, September 22, 2015
"Black girls playing; black girl joy" â that's what choreographer Camille Brown says her new show is all about. She's taking Black Girl: Linguistic Play to stages, schools and prisons arou…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:31PMMonday, April 20, 2015
The winners of this year's Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, fiction, poetry, drama, music, biography, history and nonfiction were announced Monday at Columbia University in New York.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:35PMThursday, April 16, 2015
Alison Bechdel's bestselling graphic novel memoir about growing up gay with a closeted father doesn't seem like an obvious choice for a musical, but it's coming to Broadway. NPR's Neda Ulaby…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:17PMSaturday, January 10, 2015
Ninth-century satirist al-Jahiz remains a beloved figure in Islamic literature, but his modern-day counterparts â including comedian Bassem Youssef and cartoonist Ali Farzat â don't have…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:54AM 
