Thursday, April 11, 2013
Roald Dahl's beloved children's novel is set to hit the stage as a Broadway musical. The musical's creators say the show skews closer to the beloved book than to Danny DeVito's 1996 movie, l…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:40PMSaturday, April 6, 2013
These days, a hit show can run not just for years but for decades. So how do you keep it fresh for new audiences? Reporter Jeff Lunden talks to people who work on three of Broadway's biggest…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:31AMSunday, July 15, 2012
Academy Award-winning actress Celeste Holm has died. A star on both stage and screen, Holm was best known for roles in Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve and Oklahoma! She was 95.
Holm die…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:00PMThursday, June 21, 2012
On Monday evening, one of New York's most cherished cultural institutions celebrated an anniversary. The Delacorte Theater, home of the free annual Shakespeare in the Park, turned 50, and Me…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:00AMSunday, June 10, 2012
The box office was bigger than ever, but serious cash didn't necessarily translate to Tony nominations. Writer Jeff Lunden looks back at the Broadway season, and offers predictions about who…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:00AMSunday, April 29, 2012
In the 1920s, it wasn't uncommon for the Gershwin Brothers — composer George and lyricist Ira — to have two shows running on Broadway at the same time. What's surprising is that this sea…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:17AMWednesday, April 18, 2012
If you weren't a college theater major, you can be forgiven for not knowing much about commedia dell'arte, the 500-year-old theatrical tradition that Carlo Goldoni used for his comedy The Se…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:00PMSunday, March 11, 2012
A year ago, Japan suffered a shinsai — an earthquake disaster. And on the anniversary of that disaster, theater artists across the United States and around the globe are coming together to…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:00AMThursday, March 1, 2012
Broadway history is littered with flop musicals — but if some shows are bombs, then Carrie, based on Stephen King's best-selling 1974 novel, was kind of a nuclear bomb.
The story of a teen…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:00AMFriday, February 10, 2012
Actor and writer Danai Gurira sometimes refers to herself as a "Zimerican": She was born in Iowa, but spent most of her childhood in Harare, Zimbabwe — where her new play, The Convert, is …
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:00AMThursday, January 26, 2012
In her dressing room at the Friedman Theatre, Sex and the City star Cynthia Nixon has a nightly ritual: She rubs Nivea cream all over her scalp to soothe the razor burns.
Being completely ba…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:00PMSaturday, December 31, 2011
Saturday, December 24, 2011
Australian actress Rachel Griffiths, best known in the U.S. for her work on HBO's Six Feet Under and ABC's Brothers and Sisters, has made an acclaimed Broadway debut in the new play Other De…
SOURCE: WNYC at 08:00AMTuesday, December 6, 2011
Once, the much-loved 2007 Irish indie, was kind of the little movie musical that could. Made on a shoestring budget in Dublin, it starred songwriters Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova as thin…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:00AMFriday, November 25, 2011
Every year at this time, families in search of child-friendly holiday entertainment buy their tickets for productions of A Christmas Carol and The Nutcracker. It's a lucrative market, and co…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:00PMFriday, November 11, 2011
Hugh Jackman has had one of the most bifurcated showbiz careers imaginable. He leapt to superstardom as the mutton-chopped mutant Wolverine in the X-Men movies and won a Tony Award as the ga…
SOURCE: WNYC at 03:00PMMonday, November 7, 2011
A reporter once asked the late playwright Robert Anderson, author of I Never Sang for My Father, if he could make a living writing for the theater. His reply: "You can make a killing, but no…
SOURCE: WNYC at 04:00AMThursday, October 27, 2011
Thursday, October 13, 2011
