Thursday, May 18, 2017
For his role as Pierre, Groban had to be able to play the accordion while navigating multiple sets of stairs. His replacement, Okieriete Onaodowan, has about two months to master the instrum…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:05AMFriday, April 21, 2017
Hawkins auditioned for his first acting gig at the Kennedy Center when he was 9 years old. Now he's the star of the action drama series 24: Legacy, and he's also appearing in a Broadway play.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:31AMSaturday, March 18, 2017
New York artist Jo Lampert just landed her first major role: Joan in David Byrne's new rock opera based on Joan of Arc. With her androgynous appearance and bluesy voice, Lampert seems like a…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:18AMFriday, January 27, 2017
Roe tells the stories of "Jane Roe" and the lawyer who argued her side of the case. Playwright Lisa Loomer says it may be a history play, but so much of what happens in it still happens toda…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:33AMThursday, June 30, 2016
In District Merchants, Shylock is still Jewish, but half of the other characters are freed slaves. The playwright says he was inspired but a reference to slavery in Shakespeare's original te…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:10PMThursday, January 21, 2016
Pulitzer Prize winner Lynn Nottage spent two years visiting Reading, Pa., to research her new play. Sweat explores how industrial decline affected workers in the former steel and textile tow…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:48PMMonday, December 21, 2015
Russia's Bolshoi Ballet was rocked following the 2013 acid attack on the company's artistic director. A new documentary airing Monday on HBO, Bolshoi Babylon, looks at the culture of the com…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:26PMWednesday, October 14, 2015
Comedian's absorbing tale as a first generation American and the NBA (New Brown America).
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:03PMTuesday, October 6, 2015
The South Carolina flood has left the Columbia Classical Ballet Company without not just its costumes and scores but its building.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:20PMMonday, September 28, 2015
You'd think the sign in front of dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov's arts center would have his name in lights — but actually, you can barely see it. He says what happens inside is way more impor…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:01AMFriday, August 14, 2015
A new musical by Tony nominated songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Dear Evan Hansen is a comedic drama that deals with teen suicide in the age of social media.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:12PMFriday, July 24, 2015
Just For Laughs, the biggest and oldest comedy festival in the world, is underway in Montreal. We'll find out who's new, who's returned and learn about some surprise hits.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:54AMThursday, July 23, 2015
Ortega is one of the most sought after choreographers in showbiz. He's worked with everyone from Michael Jackson to Zac Efron and is responsible for some of Hollywood's most memorable dance …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:46AMFriday, June 12, 2015
Moody was defined by the role of Fagin in Oliver!. He played it on stage in London and New York and in the Oscar-winning film version of the Dickens story. Moody died Thursday at 91.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:20PMThursday, June 11, 2015
Throughout his career, Moody played a variety of parts on stage and screen. But in the villainous Fagin, he found the role of a lifetime.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:48PMThursday, April 9, 2015
For the first time, two black dancers will star in a major American production of Swan Lake. NPR's Elizabeth Blair peeks behind the curtain to see why it has been so hard for ballet to diver…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:51PMSaturday, February 14, 2015
Whether they find Valentine's Day "icky," or the "Christmas of love," stand-up comics Jim Gaffigan, Marina Franklin and Ted Alexandro all find plenty of funny material in romance — or the …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:12AMMonday, January 19, 2015
Despite being long, convoluted and sometimes sleep-inducing, Swan Lake is a reliable ticket-seller for dance companies. The version most often performed today premiered in Russia in 1895.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:09PMTuesday, October 28, 2014
De Lavallade's husband of 59 years, dancer Geoffrey Holder, died on Oct. 5. "He was my biggest fan and I was the same way with him," she says. De Lavallade's one-woman show is called As I Re…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:38PMThursday, October 9, 2014
In the new play Colossal, a former football player, paralyzed after taking a bad hit during a game, reflects on his glory days and his struggles as a gay man in the macho culture of football.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:14PMTuesday, October 7, 2014
A legend of the dance world has died. The multi-talented Geoffrey Holder was also an actor and a visual artist. He died Sunday of complications from pneumonia. He was 84.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:36AMSaturday, March 24, 2012
Basil Twist has been called a genius. The art he's a genius at? Puppetry — which he knows can be a hard sell.
"It's not of this time," he says. "It's not of the world we live in now."
But …
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:00AMFriday, March 16, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
This is a big week for goodbyes on TV. And to mark the occasion, two major broadcast events will be using the same song. Tomorrow both Oprah and the season finale of Glee will feature the so…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:04PM 
