Saturday, February 13, 2021
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to fimmaker Iram Parveen Bilal about her new movie, set in a Pakistani Muslim community in Chicago.
Linked From National Public Radio at 02:18PMNPR's Scott Simon speaks to writer Howard Sherman about his new book, "Another Day's Begun: Thornton Wilder's Our Town in the 21st Century," which interviews participants from an array of pr…
Linked From National Public Radio at 02:18PMSaturday, July 18, 2020
A new documentary catalogs the rise of Lin-Manuel Miranda, Christopher Jackson and other members of the hip-hop group Freestyle Love Supreme in the mid-2000s before they became famous on Bro…
Linked From National Public Radio at 03:32PMSaturday, November 16, 2019
The actor discusses her "arduous" role as a 53-year-old Yale professor in the dark play, The Sound Inside. "It requires a lot of technique," she said. "Because I don't want you to see the te…
Linked From National Public Radio at 09:48AMSaturday, October 19, 2019
The prolific dancer and company director has written Out Loud -- a memoir of hits and flops, childhood trauma and a lifetime at the forefront of modern dance.
Linked From National Public Radio at 11:06PMSunday, August 4, 2019
NPR's Scott Simon honors the legacy of theatrical producer and director Hal Prince, who died this week at the age of 91.
Linked From National Public Radio at 05:12AMSaturday, April 27, 2019
A wife and then a mother to Canadian prime ministers, she addresses her time in the public eye and her battles with mental illness in an upcoming one-woman show called Certain Woman Of An Ag…
Linked From National Public Radio at 08:41AMSaturday, December 22, 2018
Barack Obama appears on the new song, "One Last Time (44 Remix)." Originally from the Broadway hit "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel Miranda reworked the number and included the former president.
Linked From National Public Radio at 01:18PMSaturday, October 20, 2018
In Mother of the Maid, Glenn Close returns to the New York stage to portray a 15th-century peasant woman with a remarkable adolescent daughter she loves — and can't protect.
Linked From National Public Radio at 01:18PMSaturday, March 31, 2018
The Academy Award-winning actress (and former member of British Parliament) returns to Broadway after a 30-year absence in Edward Albee's Three Tall Women.
Linked From National Public Radio at 07:33AMSaturday, March 3, 2018
Barbra Streisand's story of cloning her late dog, Samantha, prompted NPR's Scott Simon to muse on the ways cloning falls short, and the alternatives to trying to recreate a beloved pet.
Linked From National Public Radio at 06:53AMSaturday, February 17, 2018
The Tony-Award-winning actress, the latest to play the titular role of Dolly Levi on Broadway, describes what she brought to an enduring musical.
Linked From National Public Radio at 08:08AMSaturday, February 3, 2018
The actor best known as Dr. Frasier Crane discusses his first opera performance, as Dr. Pangloss in Leonard Bernstein's Candide at the Los Angeles Opera.
Linked From National Public Radio at 08:07AMSaturday, December 9, 2017
The SpongeBob SquarePants musical is directed by Tina Landau. Even in the face of a dangerous volcano, she says SpongeBob "really reminds us to experience each moment with joy."
Linked From National Public Radio at 12:12PMSaturday, March 25, 2017
Wright plays an FBI secretary who falls in love with an undercover Russian spy. She says Martha is "who we would all most likely be" if we found ourselves in the world of The Americans.
Linked From National Public Radio at 01:48PMSunday, December 21, 2014
Rob Marshall — who won an Academy Award in 2003 for his film of the musical Chicago — has brought Into the Woods to the screen. He tells NPR's Scott Simon that while he's made some chang…
Linked From National Public Radio at 04:14PMSaturday, August 30, 2014
U.S. performances of Syria: The Trojan Women are postponed, but NPR's Scott Simon says when art stops at the border, it's American audiences who miss out.
Linked From National Public Radio at 05:17AMMonday, July 11, 2011
Comedians don't like to talk about comedy any more than magicians like to talk about their tricks. Comedy isn't chemistry. You can't put laughs together like a recipe. Paul Provenza, the com…
Linked From National Public Radio at 12:57PMSaturday, May 21, 2011
A rich, new production of Follies has opened at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., with the original orchestrations. Bernadette Peters is playing the lead, and when she sings 'Broadway …
Linked From National Public Radio at 09:19PMSunday, March 20, 2011
Peter Keisewalter is the founding member of the Brooklyn Rundfunk Orkestrata, and their new album, "The Hills are Alive," features their takes on songs from "The Sound of Music."
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