Wednesday, June 12, 2019
Musicals get Tony Awards. Scores get Tony Awards. Orchestrators get Tony Awards. But this year, a number of Broadway musicians are stepping out of the pit and onto the stage.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:07AMSunday, June 9, 2019
Musicals get Tony Awards. Scores get Tony Awards. Orchestrators get Tony Awards. But this year, a number of Broadway musicians are stepping out of the pit and onto the stage.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:12PMFriday, May 31, 2019
The American Federation of Musicians' fund will reduce benefits for an estimated 20,000 of its 80,000 members due to stresses caused by the 2008 financial crisis — and a steadily aging mem…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:00AMWednesday, May 1, 2019
Tootsie, Beetlejuice and The Prom round up the Tony category for best musical, while The Ferryman, Gary, Ink, Choir Boy and What the Constitution Means to Me are all up for best play.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:17AMSunday, April 28, 2019
The play chronicles Rupert Murdoch's attempts to upend the insular world of British newspaper publishing — how he bought a struggling paper called The Sun and turned it into a widely read …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:54AMSaturday, April 20, 2019
To celebrate the centennial of the modern-dance pioneer's birth, dancers at theaters in London, New York and Los Angeles performed a total of 100 solos that the master choreographed.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:10AMTo celebrate the centennial of the modern-dance pioneer's birth, dancers at theaters in London, New York and Los Angeles performed a total of 100 solos that the master choreographed.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:10AMSaturday, March 30, 2019
The play is a personal memoir and a civics town hall. It recreates the debate contests Heidi Schreck attended in high school and explores how the Constitution hasn't protected all Americans …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:49AMFriday, February 22, 2019
Argento began his career in earnest in the '60s, before rising to international prominence in the '70s for works that often mined the written word for inspiration.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:20PMSunday, January 27, 2019
Belfast-born Oliver Jeffers paints, writes and illustrates children's books. He recently premiered a new art installation on the High Line in New York City called "The Moon, The Earth and Us…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:53AMSaturday, December 8, 2018
In the latest Broadway play by Jez Butterworth, the body of a man who was violently "disappeared" 10 years ago has been found in a bog. It augurs bad things for the dead man's family.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:36PMIn the latest Broadway play by Jez Butterworth, the body of a man who was violently "disappeared" 10 years ago has been found in a bog. It augurs bad things for the dead man's family.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:54AMWednesday, November 7, 2018
In a new $35 million musical, the star attraction is 20 feet tall and requires 15 people to operate. He's an engineering marvel — and also basically a giant monkey puppet.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:54PMIn a new $35 million musical, the star attraction is 20 feet tall and requires 15 people to operate. He's an engineering marvel — and also basically a giant monkey puppet.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:12AMTuesday, September 25, 2018
The New York Philharmonic launches its season with a new music director and executive director. The Metropolitan Opera's season starts with a young music director.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:04PMMonday, September 24, 2018
The Philharmonic launches its season with a new music director and executive director. The Metropolitan Opera's season starts with a young music director.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:32AMThe New York Philharmonic launches its season with a new music director and executive director. The Metropolitan Opera's season starts with a young music director.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:04AMThe Philharmonic launches its season with a new music director and executive director. The Metropolitan Opera's season starts with a young music director.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:04AMFriday, September 14, 2018
Actress Marin Mazzie has died of ovarian cancer at age 57. Mazzie had a three-decade career, with her breakout role playing Clara in Stephen Sondheim's Passion in 1994. She was in Ragtime, K…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:04PMActress Marin Mazzie has died of ovarian cancer at age 57. Mazzie had a three-decade career, with her breakout role playing Clara in Stephen Sondheim's Passion in 1994. She was in Ragtime, K…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:54PMSunday, September 9, 2018
Be More Chill got middling reviews when it premiered, but social media propelled it to new heights. Now it's headed to Broadway.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:36PMBe More Chill got middling reviews when it premiered, but social media propelled it to new heights. Now it's headed to Broadway.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:48AMFriday, August 24, 2018
Born 100 years ago on Aug. 25, 1918, Bernstein was a larger-than-life character — on stage as a conductor, at the piano as a composer, on TV as an educator and in a sometimes tangled perso…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:45AMThursday, August 23, 2018
Plays are often so intense that actors fall in love. It was 35 years ago, Nance Williamson and Kurt Rhoads were cast opposite each other in Shakespeare's As You Like It and their showmance c…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:54AMPlays are often so intense that actors fall in love. It was 35 years ago, Nance Williamson and Kurt Rhoads were cast opposite each other in Shakespeare's As You Like It and their showmance c…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:03AMMonday, July 9, 2018
Knussen, who wrote symphonies, chamber music and operas, is likely best known for his collaborations with children's author Maurice Sendak on adaptions like 1979's Where The Wild Things Are.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:34PMWednesday, July 4, 2018
Ever since Mart Crowley's play about a gay male life premiered off-Broadway in 1968, much of the original cast and crew has died of AIDS. A new, star-studded production acknowledges that his…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:54PMEver since Mart Crowley's play about a gay male life premiered off-Broadway in 1968, much of the original cast and crew has died of AIDS. A new, star-studded production acknowledges that his…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:03PMSunday, June 10, 2018
Broadway chorus members won't be recognized in their own categories as part of tonight's Tony Awards. But they might be in the future, thanks to an effort from the Actors Equity union.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:32AMBroadway chorus members won't be recognized in their own categories as part of tonight's Tony Awards. But they might be in the future, thanks to an effort from the Actors Equity union.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:54AMTuesday, May 29, 2018
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Nilo Cruz has written a play specifically for the anniversary of the Spanish language theater.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:12PM 
