Saturday, December 21, 2024
Gypsy has been called the best musical of all time. Audra McDonald is starring in a new Broadway revival, and the race-conscious casting gives the production a new frame.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:42AMWednesday, December 18, 2024
Lionel trains turns 125, celebrating more than a century of holiday magic. From historic models to smartphone-controlled locomotives, these iconic toy trains continue to captivate kids and c…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:42AMA Lionel toy train around the Christmas tree continues to be a fixture of holiday tradition in some families. The iconic American company is about to roll into its 125th anniversary.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:12AMTuesday, November 26, 2024
Lloyd's Carrot Cake has been a New York institution for nearly 40 years. Every Thanksgiving customers from near and far flock to the shop to purchase the moist cakes, topped with cream chees…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:06AMMonday, October 21, 2024
To the list of bike sharing, car sharing, and house sharing, you can now add umbrella-sharing. New York is among the world cities where you might find a kiosk that allows you to rent an umbr…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:31PMSaturday, July 13, 2024
Behind every major league ball team are a set of fast-moving men and women who make sure the game runs smoothly.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:48AMTuesday, July 2, 2024
Riders who participate in InTandem Cycling in New York find out it's more than just riding a bike and more than just exercise. It's socialization, good for your mental health and its teamwor…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:42AMThursday, June 20, 2024
Wynton Marsalis, Bryan Stevenson and a host of musicians release a record that captures the rhythm of life
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:12AMMonday, June 17, 2024
Stereophonic, which had 13 nominations, won five awards, including best play. The Outsiders and Merrily We Roll Along picked up four awards each. Hell's Kitchen, nominated for 13 awards, won…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:48AMSunday, June 16, 2024
They sit behind a console that looks like the bridge of a spaceship and use complicated technology to bring words from the actors mouth to the audience's ears.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:36AMSunday, May 26, 2024
Sherman and his brother Robert became Disney Studios' first ever in-house songwriters. They won two Oscars for their songs and score to Mary Poppins and composed the classic "It's a Small Wo…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:24AMSunday, May 12, 2024
Playwright Paula Vogel is known not just for her work on Broadway — but for the generations of famous playwrights whose careers she has nurtured. Mother Play is about her own mother.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:36AMFriday, 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 10:42AM 
