Thursday, May 15, 2025
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John Adams has been called America's greatest living composer. His adaptation of Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra" opens at the Metropolitan Opera, in New York, next week.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 1, 2025
While Broadway's box office is approaching pre-pandemic levels, fewer shows are making money, so the showcase of the national Tony broadcast is an invaluable marketing tool.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Kitty lovers started a petition to reclassify cats as necessary to tackle rodents at New York City bodegas.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:54AM[SHARE]Monday, April 28, 2025
Two new original musical comedies based on true historical events are the toast of Broadway this spring -- and both feature corpses as a major plot point.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:36AM[SHARE]Friday, April 25, 2025
Many of New York's bodegas (convenience stores) feature popular residents -- cats. They help keep vermin out and invite customers in. They are popular on Instagram, but they are not legal.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:48PM[SHARE]Saturday, April 12, 2025
The award-winning composer and lyricist William Finn died this week. He's best known for "Falsettos" and "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee."
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Indonesian residents of Queens, N.Y., gather once a month to celebrate the culture and food of their homeland. The emphasis is on the food.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:54AM[SHARE]Monday, March 31, 2025
Sunday, March 16, 2025
Jasmine Amy Rogers is starring in her first Broadway musical. Eight years ago, NPR talked with her when she was still in high school.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:18AM[SHARE]Monday, March 10, 2025
Prolific South African playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, has died at the age of 92.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:32AM[SHARE]The celebrated South African playwright was known for Blood Knot, The Road to Mecca and "Master Harold"...and the Boys. He said his job was to make "leaps out of my reality and into other re…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 14, 2025
On Broadway and national tours, the performers who substitute for various chorus members at the drop of a hat are known as "swings." Wednesday is designated "National Swing Day" in their hon…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 7, 2025
Yarrow wrote or co-wrote some of the group's biggest 1960s hits, including "Puff, the Magic Dragon" and "Day Is Done."
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:06PM[SHARE]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 07:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 06:42AM[SHARE]A 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 12:12AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 12:06AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 10:31PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 08:48AM[SHARE]Tuesday, 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 10:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, 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 01:12AM[SHARE]Monday, 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 04:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 10:36AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 03:24AM[SHARE]Sunday, 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 09:36AM[SHARE]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 01:36PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 04:18PM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 08:02PM[SHARE]Saturday, 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 10:06AM[SHARE]Wednesday, 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 01:54PM[SHARE] 
