Wednesday, March 26, 2025
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., has dissolved its Social Impact division, which partnered with local organizations to bring in diverse artists and aud…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:24AMFriday, April 5, 2024
A recent disruption at An Enemy of the People on Broadway by Extinction Rebellion shows a new approach to climate change activism.
SOURCE: npr.org at 07:06AMFriday, March 15, 2024
The upcoming immersive "Elvis Evolution" experience in London employs everything from cutting edge AI to a 200-year-old magic trick.
SOURCE: npr.org at 05:48AMSaturday, January 27, 2024
The TV personality will join judges Allison Holker and Maksim Chmerkovskiy following sexual assault allegations against Lythgoe.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:18PMSaturday, January 6, 2024
The 74-year-old TV personality, producer and choreographer is facing a lawsuit launched by high-profile co-host Paula Abdul.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:32PMSunday, December 31, 2023
Maurice Hines, who started tap dancing at the age of five, starred alongside his late brother Gregory Hines in the 1984 Francis Ford Coppola movie The Cotton Club.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:48AMSunday, September 3, 2023
The festival organizers said access to and from Nevada's Black Rock Desert where the annual event takes place is closed, after nearly an inch of rainfall created mud-bath-like conditions.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:04AMWednesday, August 16, 2023
Balancing sadness for the losses with hope about what's been saved, heritage workers are in the early stages of planning recovery and restoration efforts.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:43AMWednesday, June 14, 2023
As anti-drag and anti-LGBTQ policies become more common, San Francisco recently appointed the country's first "drag laureate." (Story aired on All Things Considered on June 12, 2023.)
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:25AMMonday, June 12, 2023
A nightclub owner, artist and newly elected government official is joining Pride festivities as other U.S. cities consider appointing drag laureates.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:43AMSaturday, March 11, 2023
Kristina Wong is a Los Angeles-based satirical artist with a history of taking on surprising leadership positions in real life and on stage. Her latest solo show is Kristina Wong, Sweatshop …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:01AMMonday, February 6, 2023
With ticket sales way down and government relief mostly at an end, business as usual is not an option for nonprofit performing arts groups.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:00AMSunday, January 22, 2023
The Grant Avenue Follies are steeped in tap dance and the songs of the 1950s and '60s. But they are no strangers to hip-hop, as the track "That Lunar Cheer" shows.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:00AMSaturday, January 7, 2023
The internationally-renowned show exploring the percussive possibilities of the human body and everyday objects ends Jan. 8.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:01AMThursday, October 27, 2022
NPR broke the news about artistic director Nataki Garrett hiring a private security detail for her personal safety.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:19PMWednesday, September 14, 2022
One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams, has a new opera, and the prompter keeps 'Anthony and Cleopatra' from flying off the rails.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:07PMTuesday, September 13, 2022
Since the 1970s, the UK's punk, alternative and hip-hop artists have used music to share their feelings about the late monarch and what she represents.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:33AMThursday, May 6, 2021
A new mask for singers has been developed and tested by the San Francisco Opera in collaboration with medics and researchers. The company is testing it in rehearsals for its first post-pande…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:03PMSunday, May 17, 2020
Theaters across the country have commissioned playwrights to create short plays that anyone can download and perform at home or online with friends and family. The initiative is called Play …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:36PMMonday, December 23, 2019
After 45 years, a staple of kitsch in San Francisco is closing. The show Beach Blanket Babylon ends Dec. 31.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:06AMMonday, May 25, 2015
SF Playhouse is a small, young company in downtown San Francisco, with big ambitions and a good start on achieving them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThursday, January 10, 2013
Reading about the British Government's poetry recitation initiative for school children, Poetry By Heart, in The Guardian over the past few days brings to mind another recent attem…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 02:54PMWednesday, January 9, 2013
I hate iTunes. It's official.Organizing my digital music collection has always been tricky. Many of the recordings I own aren't commercially available so the data often fails to correspond t…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 05:00PMMonday, January 7, 2013
It's no surprise that Mario Testino's photographs, some of the most iconic of which are currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, are attracting thundering hoards.&nbs…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 11:33AMThursday, December 27, 2012
People in this country can't get enough of old world traditions at this time of year.Events like The Bracebridge Dinner, a high-end yuletide feast based on Olde Englishe customs which takes …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 09:12AMWednesday, December 26, 2012
One fascinating outlet for the analysis of visual art in today's pop culture landscape is Ink Master. I caught an episode of the reality television series, which puts professional tatt…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 11:49AMSaturday, December 22, 2012
Blue Heron is a high-endy early music-oriented vocal ensemble based in Boston whose members have sung with the likes of Sequentia and Chanticleer and whose work has been written up by Alex R…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 10:01AMFriday, December 21, 2012
I can't imagine a more wonderful place to experience the "musical theatre" of John Cage than in the new concert space at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, which opened less than a ye…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 09:56AMMonday, December 17, 2012
Last weekend in Davis, CA, I had the pleasure of interviewing Aaron Humble and Adam Reinwald of the Cantus men's chorus based in the Twin Cities.One of the things the singers said which stru…
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 03:26PMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Of all the arts, the cinema has traditionally been the most passive from the audience's perspective. We stare at the screen, and any reactions we have (burying our faces in pillows, crying, …
SOURCE: Chloe Veltman at 11:59AM 
