Friday, April 19, 2024
Stereophonic, a new play on Broadway with music by Arcade Fire's Will Butler, tracks the volatile creation of a rock and roll album over the course of a year in the 1970s.
SOURCE: npr.org at 01:36PMSaturday, April 13, 2024
Once the toast of 1920s Paris, Tamara de Lempicka's story is now on Broadway. She was a modernist art deco artist who's better known in Europe than in the U.S.
SOURCE: npr.org at 04:18PMWednesday, April 3, 2024
American playwright Christopher Durang has died at 75. He won a Tony Award for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with "Miss Witherspoon."
SOURCE: npr.org at 08:02PMSaturday, February 24, 2024
The improv and comedy organization that famously shuns New York City has just opened in Brooklyn — with a 200-seat mainstage, a 60-seat second stage, classrooms and a restaurant.
SOURCE: npr.org at 10:06AMWednesday, February 14, 2024
Jackson was one of the finest British actors of her generation, winning Oscar, Emmy and Tony Awards. Fiercely political, she also served as a member of Parliament for decades.
SOURCE: npr.org at 01:54PMTuesday, January 30, 2024
The three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway legend created indelible roles: Anita in West Side Story, Rose in Bye Bye Birdie and Velma Kelly in Chicago.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:18PMMonday, 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 07:55PMLansbury'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 05:37PM 
