Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Josh Groban, Michael Cerveris, Norm Lewis and Len Cariou all agree: It's exhausting playing a murderous sociopath, while dealing with stage blood, a mechanical barber chair and singing compl…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:24AMThursday, March 9, 2023
Topol — the actor who went by a single name and who appeared on stage as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof hundreds of times — has died.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:53PMThursday, March 2, 2023
The central character of “Becomes a Woman,” a play that just opened at Mint Theater Company in Manhattan, is named Francie Nolan – the same name as the protagonist of “A Tree Grows i…
SOURCE: gothamist.com at 05:08PMSaturday, February 11, 2023
Hansberry is best known for A Raisin in the Sun — but as she lay dying, she wrote this play about the haplessness of white liberals. Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:16PMWednesday, January 25, 2023
For every sports team, there are fans and there are super fans. For the Brooklyn Nets, that's 86-year-old Mr. Whammy — who tries to hex the opposing basketball team into missing their foul…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:14PMSaturday, January 21, 2023
Super fan Bruce Reznick, 86, has been a fixture at Nets games since before the team moved to Brooklyn.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:01AMSunday, January 8, 2023
The PROTOTYPE festival, now in its 10th year, presents new operas and music-theater works in smaller settings. "We were trying to create a black box opera movement," says co-founder Beth Mor…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:00AMMonday, January 2, 2023
You never know what'll hit or miss — but you can look at who wrote the script and score, and who's directing and starring. Here's what Jeff Lunden is keeping his eye on, both on and off-Br…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:01AMTuesday, December 6, 2022
Kelli O'Hara, Renée Fleming, and Joyce DiDonato star in a new opera based on Michael Cunningham's book.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:18PMFriday, December 2, 2022
The Museum of Broadway in New York has lots of history and is also an interactive attraction where you can step inside a set or learn what it takes to make a show.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:06PMSaturday, November 26, 2022
A new museum celebrating the history of Broadway is now in New York's theater district.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:42PMMonday, November 21, 2022
The South Korean cultural phenomenon is now a new musical, starring actual K-pop idols.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:36AMSunday, November 20, 2022
A new Broadway musical follows how global K-Pop superstars put everything on the line when one singer tries to dismantle one of the largest record labels in the industry.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:18AMSaturday, October 15, 2022
This production uses a cast of multi-racial actors who are female, nonbinary and trans — people who weren't even considered in the Declaration of Independence.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:07AMTuesday, October 11, 2022
Kalfin co-founded the Chelsea Theater Center, which was known for provocative off-Broadway shows.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:55PMLansbury's acting career extended over an extraordinary seven decades. She says she knew early on that she'd never be "groomed to be a glamorous movie star" and thus sought out nontraditiona…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:55PMFriday, October 7, 2022
The new David Geffen Hall in Lincoln Center, home of the New York Philharmonic, opens this week. And while the outside is the same, everything inside has changed.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:13AMWednesday, October 5, 2022
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Charles Fuller died on Monday in Toronto. He was 83. Fuller was best known for A Soldier's Play – which was turned into an Oscar nominated film, A Soldie…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:37PMMonday, October 3, 2022
All four of the playwright's grandparents died in the Holocaust, but Stoppard only learned he was Jewish in middle age. Now, at 85, he engages with his family history in the play Leopoldstad…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:49PMSaturday, October 1, 2022
Tom Stoppard's new play, "Leopoldstadt," grew from a midlife realization concerning how many of his relatives died in the Holocaust.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:03AMThursday, September 29, 2022
In 2014, a study found that only 1.4% of orchestra musicians were Black. In 2022, it's hard to know if that number is better or worse.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:25AMWednesday, September 14, 2022
It's been a year since Broadway started back up again - and there've been a lot of ups and downs. COVID still had the power to shut down shows, but performers and audiences persisted.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:43AMThursday, August 11, 2022
Rodgers, the daughter of theatrical legend Richard Rogers, was a songwriter, children's book author and philanthropist. Her memoir, Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers, is …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:07PMWednesday, July 27, 2022
The concert version of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods moves to Broadway, with Sara Bareilles, Brian D'Arcy James and others.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:33PMFriday, July 22, 2022
A concert version of Stephen Sondheim's Into the Woods stars Sara Bareilles, Brian d'Arcy James, Joshua Henry and others.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:33AMWednesday, July 20, 2022
The play is based on Khaled Hosseini's 2003 best-selling novel, set in Afghanistan and among Afghan migrants in the United States.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:54PMSunday, July 10, 2022
Casting a female actor in the lead role of "Richard III" is just one twist New York's Shakespeare in the Park has given the classic this summer.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:18AMGuirira said it was interesting to explore "toxic masculinity" as a perpetrator instead of an object - and that the role brought up a lot of questions.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:18AMMonday, June 13, 2022
Sunday's 75th annual Tony Awards celebrated Broadway's first full season since the pandemic shutdown. A theme of the night was deep gratitude for the uncelebrated people who keep the shows r…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:24PMSunday, June 12, 2022
Music directors aren't eligible for awards at tonight's Tonys. We hear from three from Tony-nominated shows, talking about their craft and the challenges of conducting eight performances a w…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:24PMFriday, May 13, 2022
Sanaz Toossi is having a moment – her first production ever, English, just won a Lucille Lortel award for outstanding new off-Broadway play, and Wish You Were Here opened last week.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:33PM 
