Wednesday, January 7, 2026
The 18-time Grammy Award winner is the latest musician to cancel an show at the Kennedy Center. Béla Fleck says he cannot currently perform there because it "has become charged and politica…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:42PMTuesday, December 23, 2025
Nearly half of the revenue for large American ballet companies each year comes from the cozy seasonal favorite The Nutcracker. Since COVID, they have become even more dependent on those suga…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:02AMMonday, December 22, 2025
About half of the revenue for American ballet companies each year comes from the cozy seasonal favorite "The Nutcracker." Since COVID, they have become even more dependent on those sugarplum…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:32AMFriday, December 19, 2025
Washington, D.C.'s performing arts center was named for President Kennedy after his assassination. But his vision for the arts as a cornerstone of democracy was shared by Eisenhower and John…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:42PMThursday, September 18, 2025
Artists from abroad are worried that the current climate is making American tours not worth the time and effort.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:02PMMonday, August 25, 2025
Stephen Nakagawa, a former Washington Ballet dancer, will be the new director of dance programming. The announcement comes five days after the Kennedy Center's previous chief was dismissed.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:32PMThursday, July 24, 2025
Michael Abels writes scores for Jordan Peele. He won a Pulitzer Prize for the opera “Omar.” Now, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center shows off his classical side.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMSaturday, January 27, 2024
H. Sinno, former lead singer of the pioneering Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila, pairs their own history with that of the Metropolitan Museum's Temple of Dendur in their new opera.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:02AMMonday, January 22, 2024
“The Chevalier,” an intriguing music-theater hybrid, unwraps the still little-known life and work of this 18th-century composer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMMonday, January 8, 2024
Plans are still coming together, but two up-and-coming names on Broadway are already attached to the Prince project: playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and director Lileana Blain-Cruz.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:18PMTuesday, December 12, 2023
But the Broadway League said — in its first full demographics report since before the pandemic — that New York City's celebrated tourism draw has still not fully rebounded to pre-COVID l…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:18AMWednesday, November 22, 2023
William Ivey Long, a six-time Tony Award winner and past chairman of the American Theatre Wing, is one of the defendants in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by Court Watson, a set and costume desig…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:36PMTuesday, October 17, 2023
A new live stage show features actor John Malkovich transformed into some of the meanest music critics ever — in real reviews skewering the work of great composers like Beethoven, Brahms a…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:49PMTuesday, August 15, 2023
Clarence Avant, who boosted the careers of generations of musicians, entertainers, sports stars and politicians, has died. He was 92.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:37PMMonday, July 10, 2023
There's been a disturbing trend at concerts this summer: performers like Harry Styles, Drake and Bebe Rexha being hit — and sometimes hurt — by audience members throwing things at them d…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:25PMThursday, May 4, 2023
In the festival “Archive of Desire,” artists and musicians thoughtfully engage with the writing of Constantine P. Cavafy, a self-assessed “ultramodern poet.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:11PMMonday, March 27, 2023
Travel to the U.S. for performing artists could get more expensive after U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has proposed doubling the cost of visa applications.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:42PMFriday, February 10, 2023
Multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes has explored mass incarceration for the last eight years. With this sizeable grant, he hopes to sustain "The Healing Project" for decades to come.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:01AMMonday, December 19, 2022
After VAN magazine published accusations against Robert Beaser, a former head of The Juilliard School's composition department, hundreds of composers, educators and presenters are demanding …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:42PMTuesday, December 13, 2022
Three people have accused two teachers at the world-renowned music school — composers Robert Beaser and the late Christopher Rouse — of sexual misconduct dating back to the 1990s and 200…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:32PMThursday, November 24, 2022
A Mexican cumbia-punk band called Son Rompe Pera, a traditional singer from West Bengal named Rina Das Baul and a group from near Timbuktu called Al Bilali Soudan: three global acts on the r…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:54AMFriday, October 7, 2022
In New York City, the area dominated by Lincoln Center was formerly home to Black and Puerto Rican communities. Etienne Charles' new musical work addresses that difficult past.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:43PMMonday, June 20, 2022
A new project conceived by Lebanese American tenor Karim Sulayman recasts baroque music that by turns demonizes and exoticizes Arabs and Muslims.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:07PMThursday, March 3, 2022
A number of Russian stars from the performing arts world are using their voices and international platforms to denounce the invasion of Ukraine and speak up against Russian President Vladimi…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:18PMWhile Russian artists and institutions grapple with how they are viewed internationally, American cultural organizations make what amounts to foreign policy decisions.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:18PMSunday, February 20, 2022
A New York City opera company created an updated version of Fidelio for the Black Lives Matter era. The performance features singers who are incarcerated in real life.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:03PMTuesday, November 16, 2021
William Ivey Long is an iconic presence on Broadway, designing costumes for shows such as Diana: The Musical and Chicago. Now two men have accused the former Tony Awards chairman of sexual a…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:54AMSaturday, October 23, 2021
The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink had a six-decade career leading major orchestras across Europe, the U.S. and the U.K. He was hailed as a musician's musician, prizing the art well above g…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:12AMThursday, July 1, 2021
The actor agreed to a settlement in a class-action suit led by two of his former students, Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal, at his now-shuttered Studio 4 school.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:48AMTuesday, June 15, 2021
In a Twitter message, the co-creator of In The Heights wrote: "In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short. I'm truly sorry."
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:12PMWednesday, May 26, 2021
The university announced Wednesday that it is naming its newly reestablished college for performing and visual arts after the late, beloved actor and Howard alumnus.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:48PM 
