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"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 09:12AMPlaywright 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 10:24AMOn 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 11:36AMJosh 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 05:24AMTopol — 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 04:53PMThe 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 05:08PMHansberry 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 04:16PMFor 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 06:14PMSuper fan Bruce Reznick, 86, has been a fixture at Nets games since before the team moved to Brooklyn.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:01AMThe 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 05:00AMYou 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 07:01AMKelli O'Hara, Renée Fleming, and Joyce DiDonato star in a new opera based on Michael Cunningham's book.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:18PMThe 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 10:06PMA new museum celebrating the history of Broadway is now in New York's theater district.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:42PMThe South Korean cultural phenomenon is now a new musical, starring actual K-pop idols.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:36AMA 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 11:18AMThis 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 09:07AMKalfin 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 07:55PMThe 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 06:13AMPulitzer 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 05:37PMAll 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 04:49PMTom 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 10:03AMIn 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 09:25AMIt'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 09:43AMRodgers, 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 09:07PMThe 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 09:33PMA 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 07:33AMThe 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 06:54PMCasting 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.
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