Iconic jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter has completed a long-held dream, an opera based on the mythic Greek character Iphigenia, with help from singer and bassist Esperanza Spalding.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:18PMThe Gramophone Classical Music Awards recognized the group known as BMOP for its extraordinary service to overlooked American composers of the 20th and 21st centuries.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:03AMRadio interview on WBUR with playwright Paul Lucas and trans actresses Bianca Leigh and Mj Rodriguez.
SOURCE: www.wbur.org at 10:42AMAn award-winning London stage adaptation of 1984 has just transferred to the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. The actors say Orwell's dystopian novel remains ominously relevant…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:37AMBlack Mountain College was only open for 24 years, but it helped foment the work of several artists, musicians, dancers and filmmakers, including John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Cy Twombly. …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:45PMThe musical was adapted from a 2007 indie film starring Keri Russell. It follows a diner waitress who pours her churning emotions about her abusive marriage into creatively named pies.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:01PMDirector John Tiffany agreed to return to the A.R.T. to lead their first-ever Tennessee Williams production under one condition: Cherry Jones would have to play Amanda Wingfield.
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