Saturday, August 15, 2015

Why “Hamilton” Is Hotter than a $10 Bill - Studio 360

Before it was even completed, the buzz surrounding the musical Hamilton was already deafening. Now, after an extremely successful run at New York’s Public Theater, Hamilton has moved to Br…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 08:49AM
Friday, August 10, 2012

My Parents’ Extreme Tango Makeover

When Yowei Shaw was in college, her parents' relationship started to change. Maybe it was empty nest syndrome, maybe it was a midlife crisis; but after taking a few dance lessons on board a …

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 12:00AM
Friday, August 3, 2012

Woody Harrelson: Back to (Off-)Broadway

Who would have thought that the fresh-faced, dopey bartender on the TV show Cheers would turn into one of the most versatile, prolific actors of his time? Woody Harrelson has played a ston…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 12:00AM
Friday, July 27, 2012

Hilary Hahn and Hauschka Go Improv

Hilary Hahn is a heavy hitter in classical music, a violinist who debuted at 12 and recorded the Bach partitas at 18. She’s powered through the repertoire, mastering Paganini, the Mozart s…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 12:00AM
Friday, July 20, 2012

Suzan-Lori Parks' Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess was groundbreaking: an opera about poor African-Americans in South Carolina, starring a cripple, a tramp, and a drug dealer. There’s a new production on Broadway now entitle…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 12:00AM
Friday, July 13, 2012

On Stage: A New Streetcar

It isn’t easy to put a fresh spin on A Streetcar Named Desire, one of the most acclaimed plays in American theatre, with its caricatured Brando scream of “Stella!” A new production on …

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 12:00AM

Live in Studio: Dirty Projectors

Dirty Projectors manage to be both avant-garde and accessible — the band plays experimental rock you can still dance to. They’ve collaborated with Björk and David Byrne, and been cover…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 12:00AM
Friday, June 29, 2012

Live in the Studio: Bahamas

Canadian folk-rock musicians — Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Cowboy Junkies, k.d. lang, to name a few — have made it big south of the border while retaining something essentially Canadian i…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 06:36PM
Monday, June 25, 2012

The Truth: Redefining Radio Drama by David Krasnow

A couple of years ago, Kurt wrote a short story for a collection edited by Neil Gaiman — his first work of science fiction — with a Christmas peg buried deep inside. When we decided to c…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 12:56PM
Friday, June 22, 2012

Vagina Monologues at the Michigan State Capitol

Thousands of people filled the lawn of the Michigan state capitol in Lansing this past Monday to watch female members of the state's house and senate perform The Vagina Monologues. The perfo…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 05:08PM
Friday, June 1, 2012

Aha Moment: Whoopi Goldberg

WNYC listener Julie Bayley grew up watching daytime talk shows to catch comics like Rodney Dangerfield. But there weren’t any comedians like her: female and black. Then Bayley saw Whoopi G…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 04:56PM

Bruce Norris' Clybourne Park

In Lorraine Hansberry’s 1959 play A Raisin in the Sun, a black family buys a house in an all-white neighborhood — and even before they move in, the neighbors are up in arms. Karl Lindner…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 04:51PM

Nina Arianda: Venus in Fur

Nina Arianda is the it-girl on Broadway — she’s nominated for a Tony for her performance in David Ives’ comedy Venus In Fur.  The show is a play within a play:  a writer has adapted …

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 04:24PM
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Preview: 2012 Tony Awards by Jenny Lawton

The 66th annual Tony Awards are Sunday, June 10. If you've been meaning to brush up on your Broadway, now's the time. Here's a round-up of Kurt Andersen's conversations with some of the nomi…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 11:55AM
Friday, May 25, 2012

Aha Moment: Dave Alvin & Curtis Mayfield

A generation ago, the singer-songwriter Dave Alvin founded the rootsy-rock band The Blasters with his brother Phil in Los Angeles — and they made an indelible mark on the early 1980’s pu…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 06:04PM
Friday, May 4, 2012

Can Obama's Turnaround Arts Initiative Save Schools?

Last week, the Obama administration announced a new initiative to improve a handful of the nation’s worst performing schools through arts education. The Turnaround Arts Initiative has chos…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 06:04PM
Friday, April 27, 2012

Living Tributes to Michael Jackson

The years since 2009 have been good for Michael Jackson impersonators. After the pop star died on the verge of a comeback show, fans have wanted to see the closest thing available. “They w…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 05:59PM

Recession Wanes, But Artists Still Starving

As the country has battled the Great Recession, we’ve been inundated with reports of corporate layoffs and manufacturing jobs vanishing. But there’s another group of American workers tha…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 05:08PM
Friday, April 20, 2012

Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

In the spring of 2010, visitors to New York’s Museum of Modern Art could find Marina Abramović, the self-described “grandmother of performance art,” holding court. She sat silently,…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 06:00PM
Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Storytelling and Science Collide by Jessica Benko

Humans love a well-told story and scientists are beginning to understand why. According to a 2010 study by three Princeton researchers, the act of listening to, and comprehending, a narrativ…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 06:00AM
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Las Vegas Takes a Gamble on High Art by Rebecca Lee Douglas

This past weekend The Smith Center for the Performing Arts opened in downtown Las Vegas. Supporters hope the new $470 million cathedral to the arts shows the rest of the country that Vegas i…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 06:00AM
Friday, February 10, 2012

Merrill Garbus Becomes tUnE-yArDs

Merrill Garbus is the performer and multi-instrumentalist behind tUnE-yArDs — a music project that blends African-inspired rhythms and vocals with electric bass and saxophone. But she on…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 12:43PM

Eugene Mirman vs. The Cable Guy

The Brooklyn-based comedian Eugene Mirman is the stand-up king of hipsterville. He was a regular on the HBO series Flight of the Concords and now appears on Adult Swim’s Delocated — and …

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 12:09PM
Friday, February 3, 2012

Eve Beglarian's Huck Finn Adventure

In 2009 the composer Eve Beglarian spent four months traveling down the Mississippi River — from the Headwaters in northern Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. She made the trip mostly in a k…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 06:35PM
Friday, January 27, 2012

Tesla vs. Edison

Tesla’s biggest innovation was introducing alternating current as the standard for modern electric power, breaking Thomas Edison’s monopoly on DC power. Author and monologist Mike Daise…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 05:57PM

The Death Ray

Mike Daisey tells the story of the Tesla’s real Dr. Strangelove moment: inventing the ultimate super-weapon, a death ray. But did it work? The government thought it might, and the Cold Wa…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 05:49PM

Tesla and Twain

Mike Daisey tells the story of Tesla’s salons, where he played fast and loose with technology. "When he had you there, he'd show you inventions, then make you part of the inventions," Dai…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 04:26PM
Friday, January 13, 2012

Suzan-Lori Parks' Porgy and Bess

Porgy and Bess was groundbreaking: an opera about poor African-Americans in South Carolina, starring a cripple, a tramp, and a drug dealer. This weekend a new production opens on Broadway …

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 06:20PM
Friday, January 6, 2012

Hello 2012

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the seaso…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 05:41PM
Friday, December 23, 2011

"Human Intelligence: A Holiday Tale"

This is what Kurt Andersen considers a holiday tale ... melting ice caps and extraterrestrial spies? Kurt's story, "Human Intelligence," was produced for radio by Jonathan Mitchell, and st…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 03:45PM

Sherlock Holmes as Hamlet

Robert Downey Jr., who stars in the new movie Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, is the latest actor to take on this iconic role. Guy Ritchie, the film's director, says Holmes' persona i…

SOURCE: Studio 360 at 02:41PM

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2023-2024 BROADWAY SEASON
May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
Jun 10, 2024: The Drama Desk Awards