Broadway theaters will dim their marquee lights on Nov. 7 in honor of Dame Maggie Smith, who died in September. Smith began her acting career on stage and took theater roles well into her 80…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:24PMWith three shows running currently in NY and two more on tour, the late composer/lyricist Stephen Sondheim is as present in contemporary theater as he was when he was alive.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:06PMThe late composer/lyricist was once considered an acquired taste — but with three shows running in New York and another on tour, he's a hit.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:24PMGinger Rogers would have turned 112 this week. We remember her and her collaboration with her most famous partner, Fred Astaire.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:19PMMarcel Marceau, who spent more than half the 20th century re-popularizing the ancient art of pantomime for a modern age, was born 100 years ago this month.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:18PMWith four nominations, more Asian performers were recognized by the Academy in 2023 than in any single year in its history. In other respects, this year was a step back from diversity at the…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:35PMYou're at the theater, the last scene ends, and the cast comes out for applause. It's pretty standard today. But curtain calls once were eccentric, revealing, funny and just plain effective.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:12PMAt this time of year, people travel to be with their families. And Broadway and Hollywood have been giving them something to sing about: Traveling-song show tunes.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:12PMBroadway-legend-in-training Stephen Sondheim was a college sophomore in 1948 when his musical Phinney's Rainbow was produced — and recorded — at Williams College in Massachusetts.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:24PMIn the first of our six-part series, NPR's Bob Mondello explains how the theater that most Americans see is being transformed.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:19AMOn the eve of the 2022 election, Arena Stage presents monologues on the theme of choice by eight female playwrights. The show runs for 18 performances and tickets are $18, a nod to the US vo…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:55PMBrook's work ranged from classical star-studded productions to radical experiments in theater. He reinvented King Lear and explored the fragility of civilization in the film Lord of the Flie…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:42PMA thousand pages of correspondence by Oscar Hammerstein II, the lyricist for such musicals as Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel and The Sound of Music are available to a wide public for the fir…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:07PMNPR's Bob Mondello looks at a show-stopping theatrical phenomenon that's fallen out of fashion — the encore.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:24PMWhy should Americans care about Ukraine? An answer from 1960s Broadway.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:18AMTwo new books about a legendary silent film comic — Dana Stevens' Camera Man and James Curtis' Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life — give fans new reason to revisit Keaton's work.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:24PMTony and Maria, Sharks and Jets — Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner take a fresh look at the musical theater classic West Side Story.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:18PMComposer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, one of the most influential figures in the American musical theater, has died. He was 91.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:54PMDev Patel as a knight of the Round Table, Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn, the mostly nonwhite casts of Bridgerton and Hamilton — all belong to a tradition that has its roots in live the…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:12PMFred Astaire and Ginger Rogers gave Americans a much-needed on-screen escape in the 1930s. You can find their dance numbers online, but critic Bob Mondello recommends you watch their films i…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:18PMA precise performance from young Victor Polster grounds this closely observed tale of Lara, a trans girl impatient with the process of transition.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:18PMBob Mondello says the musical looked — and sounded — much different from anything Broadway had ever seen and helped secure a place for rock music on the Great White Way.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:48PMAuthors Isaac Butler and Dan Kois celebrate Angels in a new book, The World Only Spins Forward, that collects the memories of everyone from playwright Tony Kushner to Congressman Barney Fran…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:09PMWhen the co-founder of Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., made her theater a nonprofit, hundreds of small regional stages followed suit. Fichandler died July 29 at the age of 91.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:27PMPlaywright Peter Shaffer has died. He was best known for Equus and Amadeus, both of which became movies.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:09PMAfter NPR's Bob Mondello used The Music Man to help explain the Iowa caucuses, he wished there was a musical of Our Town so he could do the same for New Hampshire. It turns out there is one.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:44PMArgentina's newest tourist attraction is housed in a repurposed century-old Beaux Arts Central Post Office building. The Centro Cultural Kirchner is one of the largest cultural centers in th…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:28AMBob Mondello looks at the most-produced shows at high schools through seven decades, and ponders what the choices made by drama teachers tell us.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:04PMThe creative team for Broadway's Spider-Man: Turn Off The Dark is climbing the walls this week. After four opening-night delays and 80 full-price preview performances, a lot of critics decid…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:58PMThe musical has some of the best-known songs in Broadway history, but it originally had other tunes that almost no one knows. Some of those songs were recently performed for the first time i…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:05PMAs an African-American Annie arrives on movie screens, critic Bob Mondello looks at other cross-cultural reinventions, from Pearl Bailey's Dolly to the Americanization of Carmen as Carmen Jo…
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