Friday, July 22, 2022
Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Hurricane Season, A Strange Loop, and more.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:12PMSaturday, July 16, 2022
Beanie Feldstein's departure from the role of Fanny Brice has caused waves on Broadway. But she wasn't the only source of Funny Girl's problems.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:07PMSunday, March 13, 2022
Russia's growing isolation in the cultural world is poignant for those who remember optimistic outreach of the 80s and 90s.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:03AMThursday, December 30, 2021
NPR pop culture critic Linda Holmes lists highlights from the year, including Ted Lasso, a TikTok dog, a twisty mystery, some great performances, and a moment in a mall.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:12AMFriday, November 26, 2021
Stephen Sondheim has died at 91. Pop Culture Happy Hour's Linda Holmes looks back on her favorite Sondheim tunes.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:54PMFriday, August 20, 2021
Ted Lasso, which is always a bunch of love stories, salutes romantic comedy in an episode that brings out a new side of Nathan and a new professional aspiration in Roy.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:42AMSaturday, July 24, 2021
In the season 2 premiere, Ted Lasso struggles to help a star player, Rebecca double dates with Keeley and Roy, and Jamie Tartt is a man on an island.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:54AMThursday, July 15, 2021
The new musical comedy series Schmigadoon! brings a delightful cast to a parody of 1940s Broadway musicals, with good musical results, if things are a little mixed otherwise.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:12PMFriday, April 23, 2021
A cleverly made Romeo & Juliet, adapted from a planned theatrical run to a filmed version, embraces the promise and the romance of a large and empty theater as a place to situate a class…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:32AMSaturday, January 23, 2021
Derek DelGaudio's successful off-Broadway show has been given a marvelous film adaptation that captures the stage production's delicate and humane tone.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:24PMTuesday, June 30, 2020
The very good movie version of Hamilton, filmed with the original cast at the height of the show's popularity, will perk up faithful cast album fans — and new viewers, too.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:12PMTuesday, December 31, 2019
From J. Lo to Keanu, baseball GIFs to Phoebe Waller-Bridge's masterpiece, here are 50 great cultural moments — from TV, movies, theater, books, podcasts and more — from the year that was.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:18AMWednesday, July 17, 2019
A recent Pop Culture Happy Hour trip to New York took the team to see Rigoletto at the Metropolitan Opera. A jester in a rat pack? We saw it.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:48AMMonday, June 10, 2019
Anaïs Mitchell's long-developing musical won eight awards, including best musical, while The Ferryman won best play.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 03:06AMTuesday, April 9, 2019
The FX series is deeply interested in Bob Fosse as an awful genius, but much less invested in Gwen Verdon as an overlooked collaborator.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:01AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
The IFC series Documentary Now!, which has been in fine parody form for three seasons, plays around with Stephen Sondheim's Company and Broadway conventions in a new episode.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:00AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
The Tony Awards paid off for The Band's Visit, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the Angels in America revival and a scrappy theater kid named Bruce Springsteen.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:54PMMonday, June 11, 2018
The Tony Awards paid off for The Band's Visit, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the Angels in America revival, and a scrappy theater kid named Bruce Springsteen.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:48AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Broadway's original Aaron Burr sits down to talk about his new book, how it feels to hear ugly things about your career, and what he wants to do now that he couldn't before.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:06PMTuesday, September 26, 2017
Is it a good idea to make a musical adapted from Pretty Woman? Or is it, just possibly ... a "big mistake — huge!" We have a few details about the new show, coming to Broadway in 2018.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:18PMFriday, June 16, 2017
This week, we talk about the superhero smash Wonder Woman, and we talk about Dear Evan Hansen, Oslo and some of the other big winners from Sunday night's Tonys.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:04PMTuesday, May 2, 2017
The Tony nominations are out, and unlike last year, there's no founding-fathers-shaped giant absorbing the oxygen.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:02PMTuesday, April 18, 2017
While musicals have good pop-culture presence in many cases, plays tend not to. But in an environment that has embraced idiosyncratic and complicated TV, there's no better time to change tha…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:24PMFriday, March 18, 2016
It's Broadway's current phenomenon, so we went to see it and report back on what it is, how it works, and whether we loved it as much as we wanted to. It's our Hamilton show.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:09PMWednesday, November 18, 2015
A new stage play finds Bruce Willis and Laurie Metcalf at the controls of an oddly horror-free version of the Stephen King novel.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:26PMMonday, June 8, 2015
If you haven't yet seen the most memorable performance from Sunday night's Tony Awards, from the musical Fun Home, now's the time.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:40PMSaturday, April 25, 2015
Pitch Perfect may have made the International Championship of Collegiate A Cappella look like a personality contest, but the real competition takes long hours and exacting musicianship.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:21AMWednesday, March 11, 2015
Ovation's American Canvas has a lot of fun in San Francisco, starting with the art installation at Alcatraz.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:33PMThursday, November 20, 2014
We consider the work of writer-director-performer Mike Nichols, who died Wednesday.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:35PMWednesday, October 8, 2014
In a new comedy album, Cameron Esposito covers strip clubs, her attraction to "women in crisis," her awkward youth, and her bone-deep comfort in her own skin.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 10:58AM 
