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David Byrne: Inspired By A Dictator's Wife, Minus The Shoes by Jeff Lunden

Byrne's retelling of the Imelda Marcos story may continue. New York's Public Theater has expressed interest in developing Here Lies Love into a full-length musical.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Holland Taylor: A Class Act's Next Tough Dame

She's played many a mom, but her real trademark is playing strong, gutsy women on screen. In an upcoming one-woman stage show, she takes on one of the gutsiest: former Texas Gov. Ann Richard…

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Playwright Alan Bennett Explores His 50-Year 'Habit' by Jeff Lunden

The British theater stalwart creates a play within a play about an imagined meeting between W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten. They're an odd couple of the arts, with Auden the slovenly Oscar …

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It's Well Past Tomorrow, and Keir Dullea is Far From Gone, by Michael Portantiere

A candid interview with the stage and screen star, who is now appearing Off-Broadway in I Never Sang for My Father.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Michael Feinstein, Dame Edna Share 'All About Me' by Jeff Lunden

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Phantom Sequel Argues That 'Love Never Dies' by Jeff Lunden

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Father And Son: Sheen Revisits 'Subject Was Roses' by Ina Jaffe

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Schreiber, Johansson Build A 'Bridge' To A Classic by Jeff Lunden

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Florence Henderson Unleashed

The woman whom millions know and love as Mrs. Brady prepares to let her hair down in Broadway Backwards 5 and in her one-woman show at Joe's Pub.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

Bruce Hornsby: A Sick Bastard's New Album

Hornsby says the song, along with several others on the album, also appear in a musical he is helping to write called SCKBSTD. He speaks about the project, and plays another song that appears on both the album and the musical.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

'Romeo And Juliet': Just As You Misremembered It by Robert Smith

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Can Afrobeat Musical 'Fela!' Move The Masses? by Jeff Lunden

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Daniel Day-Lewis: 'Nine' Lives, One Way Of Living

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The Second City At 50: The 'Harvard Of Ha Ha' by David Schaper

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'The Vibrator Play': Why Yes, It Is About Exactly That by Jeff Lunden

The title of her latest comedy may be a little titillating, but playwright Sarah Ruhl wants you to know one thing right upfront:
"A lot of it happens under a sheet."

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 5:58pm on May 25, 2015☆⚑

'Finian's Rainbow' Arcs Over Broadway Again by Margot Adler

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Carrie Fisher Finishes Our Sentences About Family, Work And That Bikini by Michael Portantiere

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Jude Law, Tackling Hamlet From The Inside Out by Jeff Lunden

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'Superior Donuts': Pulitzer Winner Sets Up New Shop by Jeff Lunden

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Neil Patrick Harris Steps Into The Spotlight by Elizabeth Blair

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Broadway Star Morrison Leaps To TV With 'Glee'

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Larry Gelbart Made Funny Things Happen by Scott Simon

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'Eclipsed' Brings Story Of Liberian Civil War To Stage

Playwright Danai Gurira says the inspiration for her new play, Eclipsed, came from a photograph one of her professors showed her when she was in graduate school.

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Q&A With Jonathan Groff Of <cite>Spring Awakening</cite> And <cite>Taking Woodstock</cite>

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For Playwright, TV Gigs Make Theater Possible by Jeff Lunden

When Theresa Rebeck moved to New York to pursue her dream as a playwright, she did what a lot of starving artists do: She temped.

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