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Saturday, October 3, 2015

In Argentina, Where Culture Is 'A Right,' A Free New Arts Center Opens by Bob Mondello

Argentina'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 07:28AM
Friday, July 31, 2015

The Play's The Thing — High School Productions Down The Decades by Bob Mondello

Bob 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 06:04PM
Monday, May 25, 2015

'Spider-Man': Don't Be So Quick To Write Off The Dark by Bob Mondello

The 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 05:58PM
Wednesday, May 20, 2015

'My Fair Lady' Couldn't Actually Dance All Night, So These Songs Had To Go by Bob Mondello

The 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 05:05PM
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

An Updated 'Annie' And The Tradition Of Nontraditional Casting by Bob Mondello

As 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…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:11PM
Thursday, November 20, 2014

Renowned Theater And Film Director Mike Nichols Dies by Bob Mondello

Nichols, perhaps best known for his 1967 classic film, The Graduate, won Emmy, Oscar, Tony and Grammy awards. He died Wednesday at age 83.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:12AM
Monday, June 16, 2014

Private Lives at Shakespeare Theatre Company, Reviewed by Bob Mondello

A star vehicle without stars, Shakespeare Theatre Company’s revival of Noel Coward’s Private Lives is more airily amusing than D.C. audiences might be inclined to expect. This comedy of …

SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 09:53AM
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Are D.C. Theaters Playing It Too Safe? by Bob Mondello

In March, the Washington Post's chief theater critic, Peter Marks, lamented that the 2012-2013 seasons of several large D.C.-area companies—among them Signature Theatre, the Kennedy Ce…

SOURCE: Washington City Paper at 02:06PM
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The Theatrical Curtain Call: More Than Just Bows by Bob Mondello

My first grown-up show: Oliver! Mom and me way up high in the upper balcony, watching all those kids down below. One older character, Nancy, who looked a little like my mom, died in the seco…

SOURCE: WNYC at 03:00PM
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