Lloyd's Carrot Cake has been a New York institution for nearly 40 years. Every Thanksgiving customers from near and far flock to the shop to purchase the moist cakes, topped with cream chees…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:06AMTo the list of bike sharing, car sharing, and house sharing, you can now add umbrella-sharing. New York is among the world cities where you might find a kiosk that allows you to rent an umbr…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:31PMBehind every major league ball team are a set of fast-moving men and women who make sure the game runs smoothly.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:48AMRiders who participate in InTandem Cycling in New York find out it's more than just riding a bike and more than just exercise. It's socialization, good for your mental health and its teamwor…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:42AMWynton Marsalis, Bryan Stevenson and a host of musicians release a record that captures the rhythm of life
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:12AMStereophonic, which had 13 nominations, won five awards, including best play. The Outsiders and Merrily We Roll Along picked up four awards each. Hell's Kitchen, nominated for 13 awards, won…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:48AMThey sit behind a console that looks like the bridge of a spaceship and use complicated technology to bring words from the actors mouth to the audience's ears.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:36AMSherman and his brother Robert became Disney Studios' first ever in-house songwriters. They won two Oscars for their songs and score to Mary Poppins and composed the classic "It's a Small Wo…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:24AMPlaywright Paula Vogel is known not just for her work on Broadway — but for the generations of famous playwrights whose careers she has nurtured. Mother Play is about her own mother.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:36AMStereophonic, a new play on Broadway with music by Arcade Fire's Will Butler, tracks the volatile creation of a rock and roll album over the course of a year in the 1970s.
SOURCE: npr.org at 01:36PMOnce the toast of 1920s Paris, Tamara de Lempicka's story is now on Broadway. She was a modernist art deco artist who's better known in Europe than in the U.S.
SOURCE: npr.org at 04:18PMAmerican playwright Christopher Durang has died at 75. He won a Tony Award for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with "Miss Witherspoon."
SOURCE: npr.org at 08:02PMThe improv and comedy organization that famously shuns New York City has just opened in Brooklyn — with a 200-seat mainstage, a 60-seat second stage, classrooms and a restaurant.
SOURCE: npr.org at 10:06AMJackson was one of the finest British actors of her generation, winning Oscar, Emmy and Tony Awards. Fiercely political, she also served as a member of Parliament for decades.
SOURCE: npr.org at 01:54PMThe three-time Tony Award-winning Broadway legend created indelible roles: Anita in West Side Story, Rose in Bye Bye Birdie and Velma Kelly in Chicago.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:18PMThe classic 1962 movie tells the story of a relationship buckling under the weight of addiction. The new Broadway adaptation stars Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:48AMThe musical is an adaptation of a Peabody award-winning HBO documentary — it follows seven young people at a group counseling center in Columbus as they get ready for a big dance.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:32AMLong before The Backstreet Boys, a vocal sextet in Weimar Germany was silenced because three memebrs were Jewish. A new Broadway musical with a score by Barry Manilow tells their story.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:36AMWhen the composer/lyricist died in 2021 at age 91, he left behind a partly finished show called Here We Are. But his collaborators say Sondheim loved a puzzle — and he left them all the pi…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:49AMIn 1961, actor and Civil Rights activist Ossie Davis wrote the blistering play Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch. Now, Leslie Odom Jr. stars in the revival.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:33PMThe star of the Back to the Future: The Musical may be the car. The show's design team created a DeLorean that flies over the audience.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:55PMIt flies over the audience and flips over — but that's not all that it does.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:55AMIs "Here Lies Love" the future of Broadway? The immersive musical about Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos is a $22 million gamble. (Story first aired on Morning Edition on Julu 18, 2023.)
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:33AMHere Lies Love tells the story of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos' rise and fall in the Philippines. The $22 million immersive musical production is a big Broadway gamble.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:13AMThe Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist was one of the last masters of Broadway's Golden Age. His career extended over 60 years.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:25AMGlenda Jackson has died. One of the finest British actresses of her generation, Jackson won Oscar, Emmy, and Tony Awards. Fiercely political, she also served as a member of Parliament for de…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:19AMOnly a handful of theater photographers work on Broadway and their challenge is to capture the essence of live performance. Ahead of the Tony Awards, we ask three about their craft.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:33AMProducers have been saying for years that large Broadway orchestras are not financially feasible. In fact, the issue led to a strike 20 years ago. So why are some shows bringing them back?
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:42AM"We don't gender other people's professions," says actor Alex Newell. "You say ... I'm going to my dentist and I need to hire a plumber." But Broadway's highest honors have male/female disti…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:12AMPlaywright Lorraine Hansberry's show, "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," opened last week on Broadway, almost 59 years ago since it first opened.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:24AMOn Sunday night the curtain will fall on the longest-running show in Broadway history: Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega hit ran for more than 35 years. "I got the gig of a lifetime," says one cast…
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