Sunday, September 17, 2017
The opera, presented by Opera Philadelphia with the Apollo Theater, had its world premiere Sept. 16. It revisits the house at the center of the bombing and its impact on Philadelphia's youth…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:54PMTuesday, September 12, 2017
Hall ran two of the most important theater companies in England — the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. He directed Waiting for Godot and Amadeus, among dozens of plays, …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:54AMHall ran two of the most important theater companies in England — the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. He directed Waiting for Godot and Amadeus, among dozens of plays, …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:59AMMonday, September 4, 2017
Broadway casting directors are seeking to unionize like their colleagues in Hollywood, who are already represented. But Broadway producers are resisting and have even threatened to sue, desp…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:18PMBroadway casting directors are seeking to unionize like their colleagues in Hollywood, who are already represented. But Broadway producers are resisting and have even threatened to sue, desp…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:50PMThursday, August 24, 2017
Harold Prince began his career on Broadway as an unpaid assistant in his 20s. Now, at 89, the producer and director has 21 Tony awards and a long list of hit musicals to his name.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:36PMHarold Prince began his career on Broadway as an unpaid assistant in his 20s. Now, at 89, the producer and director has 21 Tony awards and a long list of hit musicals to his name.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:52PMTuesday, August 8, 2017
Cook became famous for her parts in Leonard Bernstein's Candide and Meredith Willson's The Music Man. Then, when Broadway roles became scarce, she reinvented herself as a concert and cabaret…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:42PMCook became famous for her parts in Leonard Bernstein's Candide and Meredith Willson's The Music Man. Then, when Broadway roles became scarce, she reinvented herself as a concert and cabaret…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:34AMSunday, July 23, 2017
The Canadian theater company Soulpepper performs dramas, cabarets, concerts. Some actors perform in multiple shows on the same day. We followed one actor during a grueling, but satisfying da…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:18PMThe Canadian theater company Soulpepper performs dramas, cabarets, concerts. Some actors perform in multiple shows on the same day. We followed one actor during a grueling, but satisfying da…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:05AMThursday, July 20, 2017
George Balanchine's modernist masterpiece was the first full-length, nonnarrative ballet. Russian, American and French ballet dancers have gathered to perform it together in New York City.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:48PMGeorge Balanchine's modernist masterpiece was the first full-length, nonnarrative ballet. Russian, American and French ballet dancers have gathered to perform it together in New York City.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:00PMTuesday, July 11, 2017
The 6-year-old children's book character struck a chord when she debuted in the 1950s. Now a new exhibition shines a light on how Eloise came to be.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:31PMWednesday, July 5, 2017
Albee died in 2016, and in his will he asked that all his incomplete manuscripts be destroyed — including a play that was supposed to open off-Broadway.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:04PMAlbee died in 2016, and in his will he asked that all his incomplete manuscripts be destroyed — including a play that was supposed to open off-Broadway.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:51PMSaturday, July 1, 2017
Seventy-four high school singers, actors and dancers, selected from a pool of 50,000 students across America, recently came to New York City for a Broadway boot camp.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:04PMSeventy-four high school singers, actors and dancers, selected from a pool of 50,000 students across America, recently came to New York City for a Broadway boot camp.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:52AMSaturday, June 17, 2017
George Orwell's dystopia returned to bestseller lists after the inauguration. "It's quite something to bring it to New York now, in this political climate," says adaptation co-author Duncan …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:04PMGeorge Orwell's dystopia returned to bestseller lists after the inauguration. "It's quite something to bring it to New York now, in this political climate," says adaptation co-author Duncan …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:15AMMonday, June 12, 2017
Delta pulled its sponsorship of New York City's Public Theater over a production of Julius Caesar that seems to depict an assassination of President Trump.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:33PMDelta pulled its sponsorship of New York City's Public Theater over a production of Julius Caesar that seems to depict an assassination of President Trump.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:38PMSunday, June 11, 2017
Off in the wings, stage managers coordinate cast and crew, calling hundreds of cues during Broadway performances. They may not win Tony Awards, but without them, not even the curtain would g…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:33AMOff in the wings, stage managers coordinate cast and crew, calling hundreds of cues during Broadway performances. They may not win Tony Awards, but without them, not even the curtain would g…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:12AMWednesday, May 31, 2017
A small theater in Portland, Ore., cast an African-American actor in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? But the Albee estate wouldn't grant the rights to produce the 1962 play.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:24PMA small theater in Portland, Ore., cast an African-American actor in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? But the Albee estate wouldn't grant the rights to produce the 1962 play.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:58PMSunday, May 7, 2017
Normally, critical reviews can kill a Broadway show, but not so for kid-focused musicals. Anastasia and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are currently on Broadway, vying for the kid seal of…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:12PMNormally, critical reviews can kill a Broadway show, but not so for kid-focused musicals. Anastasia and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory are currently on Broadway, vying for the kid seal of…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:31PMMonday, May 1, 2017
A new Broadway production takes audiences through the history of Sholem Asch's 1907 Yiddish play God of Vengeance, about a Jewish brothel owner whose daughter falls in love with a woman.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:12PMSaturday, April 29, 2017
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel is using a controversial Yiddish play more than a hundred years old as the basis for her first Broadway production.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:48PMPulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel is using a controversial Yiddish play more than a hundred years old as the basis for her first Broadway production.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:57AM 
