32 stories by "Scott Simon"
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?
NPR's Scott Simon visits The Second City Theater in Chicago to talk with comedians about the challenges of improv.
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin, who star in the new Broadway revival of "Cabaret."
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.
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.
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.
Scott Simon speaks to legendary puppeteer Frank Oz about a museum exhibit honoring his parents - who made puppets and were survivors of the Holocaust.
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.
Scott Simon talks with author and critic Isaac Butler about his new book, "The Method: How the Twentieth Century Learned to Act."
NPR's Scott Simon remembers theater critic and playwright Terry Teachout, who died this week at the age of 65.
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…
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.
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to fimmaker Iram Parveen Bilal about her new movie, set in a Pakistani Muslim community in Chicago.
NPR'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…
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…
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…
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.
NPR's Scott Simon honors the legacy of theatrical producer and director Hal Prince, who died this week at the age of 91.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
