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Friday, April 21, 2023

Broadway legend Chita Rivera dances through her life in a new memoir by Susan Stamberg

In Chita: A Memoir, Rivera recounts her career originating roles in major Broadway shows. Now 90, Rivera remembers West Side Story from the beginning: "I was there at the first flicker of th…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 07:24AM

Monday, November 18, 2019

In Albee's 'Occupant,' A Deceased Sculptor Defends Her Legacy by Susan Stamberg

In what turned out to be playwright Edward Albee's last produced new play, he explored the personality of sculptor Louise Nevelson. Occupant is being performed at Washington, D.C.'s Theater …

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:54PM

Thursday, April 26, 2018

Mel Brooks Says It's His Job 'To Make Terrible Things Entertaining' by Susan Stamberg

Brooks, 91, has made a career of poking fun at topics that normally wouldn't make you laugh. "The comedy writer is like the conscience of the king," Brooks says. "He's got to tell him the tr…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:42AM

Sunday, October 16, 2016

'It's Very Lonely': Kathleen Turner Stars As Joan Didion In 'Magical Thinking' by Susan Stamberg

Turner appears in a new production of The Year of Magical Thinking, based on Didion's 2005 memoir. In one year, Didion's daughter fell into a coma and her husband of 40 years had a fatal hea…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:39AM

Monday, January 4, 2016

400 Years After His Death, Shakespeare's First Folio Goes Out On Tour by Susan Stamberg

The First Folio is the first printed collection of all of Shakespeare's plays, assembled by two of his buddies after he died. Without it, plays like Macbeth and Twelfth Night might not have …

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 08:37AM

Monday, May 25, 2015

Jane Fonda Is Academic In '33 Variations' by Susan Stamberg

Actress Jane Fonda is back on stage as a musicologist out to solve a musical mystery in the play 33 Variations. Fonda talks about the role and explains why she's "smitten" with Beethoven.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:58PM

Friday, April 10, 2015

'Grand Illusion' Exhibit Lifts Curtain On The Secrets Of Setting The Stage by Susan Stamberg

An exhibit at the Library of Congress is devoted to the art of theatrical design. Drawings, sketches, watercolors, posters and scale models reveal how magic and spectacle are achieved before…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:49AM

Friday, November 28, 2014

Gold-Plated Gowns And 8-inch Pumps: The Stuff That Made Starlets Shimmer by Susan Stamberg

Actress Mae West was petite, but on screen — thanks to a pair of platform shoes — she looked larger than life. A show in Boston examines the fashion and jewelry of Hollywood's golden age.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:00AM

Monday, October 20, 2014

'Little Dancer' Musical Imagines The Story Behind Degas' Mysterious Muse by Susan Stamberg

Ballerina Marie Van Goethem started modeling for Edgar Degas around 1878 and inspired his statue Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. But history lost track of her after she left the Paris Opera.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:23AM

Monday, September 1, 2014

Deborah Rutter Becomes Kennedy Center's First Female President by Susan Stamberg

On Monday, Deborah Rutter begins her job as president of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. She says it never occurred to her that she would be the first woman in…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:58AM

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