Now on PBS NewsHour's Art Beat blog: Jeffrey Brown talks with actor and playwright Tracy Letts and director Pam MacKinnon about their rendition of “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.̶…
Now on PBS NewsHour's Art Beat blog: Jeffrey Brown talks with actor and playwright Tracy Letts and director Pam MacKinnon about their rendition of “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.̶…
Since West Side Story, Stephen Sondheim has been rhyming his way into theater history. Today, he's widely seen as the most important writer of musicals in the past half century.
With the government sequestration now a fact of life, we've been looking on the program at how cuts are affecting or might affect various sectors. Today, we look at the arts and arts organiz…
With its elements of music, singing, theater, dance and video, "Elsewhere" is described by its creator, cellist extraordinaire Maya Beiser, as a "CelloOpera." It's a collaboration of Beiser …
I recently had a chance to see a performance of Mark Morris' "L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato" at Washington's Kennedy Center, a piece he first presented in 1988 and that is widely co…
Last month, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation announced a major new program to assist artists. The Doris Duke Performing Artists Initiative will provide $50 million in grants to 200 artis…