Saturday, February 8, 2025
Five years after the pandemic, have Broadway audiences come back? And what musicals and plays are opening, in the weeks ahead, that might draw in crowds?
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:32PMSaturday, August 24, 2024
NPR's Scott Simon visits The Second City Theater in Chicago to talk with comedians about the challenges of improv.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:18PMSaturday, April 20, 2024
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin, who star in the new Broadway revival of "Cabaret."
SOURCE: npr.org at 01:02PMSaturday, February 10, 2024
NPR's Scott Simon talks with Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody and Gideon Grody-Patinkin about the family stage "performance" in which Gideon talks with his performer parents about their lives.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:12AMSaturday, January 21, 2023
Tenor Limmie Pulliam just made his Carnegie Hall debut at the age of 47. He tells NPR's Scott Simon what pushed him away from singing and what twist of fate brought him back to the stage.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:39AMSaturday, October 29, 2022
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to writer and director Cameron Crowe, whose movie, "Almost Famous" is now a musical, and opening in New York next week.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:03AMSaturday, August 20, 2022
Scott Simon speaks to legendary puppeteer Frank Oz about a museum exhibit honoring his parents - who made puppets and were survivors of the Holocaust.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:48PMSaturday, February 26, 2022
Scott Simon speaks with Friends University student Caitlyn Fox about the recital she was not allowed to perform on campus. It was comprised of songs that were banned from musical theater.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:18AMSaturday, February 5, 2022
Scott Simon talks with author and critic Isaac Butler about his new book, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act."
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:54PMSaturday, January 15, 2022
NPR's Scott Simon remembers theater critic and playwright Terry Teachout, who died this week at the age of 65.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 11:03AMSunday, January 9, 2022
Scott Simon talks with Carla Stickler, a former understudy for the Broadway smash "Wicked." She was called back to perform on short notice after much of the current cast succumbed to COVID-1…
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 02:36AMSunday, December 5, 2021
NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Patti LuPone, one of the stars of the revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical "Company" on Broadway.
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 01:54PMSaturday, 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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."
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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.
SOURCE: 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…
SOURCE: 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 …
SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:19PM 
