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This week, we're live in Richmond with GWAR and panelists Adam Burke, Alzo Slade, and Negin FarsadLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Deborah Rutter, former head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in her first interview since the board installed President Trump as its n…
President Donald Trump is now chairman of The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. Trump replaced 18 members of the board with allies who then elected him into the posi…
Alvin Ailey's seminal Revelations is considered the most widely viewed modern dance work in the world. Lost songs from the 1960 premiere are featured in a new work and an album this seaso…
Proposed in 1955 by President Dwight Eisenhower and championed by the arts enthusiast whose name it would ultimately bear, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has a storied hi…
President Trump plans to fire several Board Members at Washington D.C.'s John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and indicated that he's naming himself chairman. Here's why i…
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?
We talk about the cultural phenomenon of Wicked with star Ariana Grande. She's nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. Grande talks about some of the underlying messages in the f…
The president announced Friday that he would remove multiple board members, including the Chairman, who do not share his vision for a "Golden Age in Arts and Culture."
This week, special guest Vanessa Bayer joins panelists Shantira Jackson, Rachel Feinstein, and Peter GroszLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Po…
As a kid, Ariana Grande loved singing karaoke with her family. "I looked up to Whitney and Mariah and Celine endlessly," she says. "I think that's a large part of the reason why I learned to…
Critics point out the apparent hypocrisy of a pro-Black rapper like Kendrick Lamar headlining the Super Bowl halftime show, since the NFL isn't exactly an institution that's known for its su…
This week, renowned taxidermist Amber Maykut joins panelists Rekha Shankar, Adam Felber, and Joyelle Nicole JohnsonLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR P…
Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson is the co-director of a new documentary about the music of Saturday Night Live over the last 50 years. It's called Ladies & Gentlemen and it's streaming on Pea…
How do you bring the African Diaspora to the Grammys?Esperanza Spalding and Milton Nascimento's contrasting tones make a perfect team on Milton + esperanza, a collection of covers, duets, an…
Country music singer Charley Crockett was born and raised in Texas, grew up in a single-wide trailer with his mom and says his family lineage traces all the way back to the frontiersman Davy…
This week, special guest mxmtoon joins panelists Paula Poundstone, Faith Salie, and Hari KondaboluLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
What do Babygirl, Singing in the Rain and Apocalypse Now have in common? They've all been overlooked by Oscar voters.Some Oscar blunders fall into the category of snubs - others show a failu…
Eisenberg's film, A Real Pain, follows two cousins on a Jewish heritage tour of Poland, which includes a stop at the Majdanek death camp. Eisenberg spoke with Terry Gross about tragedy touri…
This week, Rose Matafeo joins panelists Maz Jobrani, Alzo Slade, and Helen HongLearn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy
Plowright brought stage and screen characters to vibrant life for more than six decades in such works as A Taste of Honey, Tea with Mussolini and Enchanted April.
Communities in Los Angeles are trying to find moments of togetherness and joy. That's included a singing and dancing puppet named Yellow Cat.
On our season finale, when a young listener has a question on behalf of her fifth grade class, we call up an old friend/chimp butt expert to help her out. And Saturday Night Live's James Aus…
On Broadway and national tours, the performers who substitute for various chorus members at the drop of a hat are known as "swings." Wednesday is designated "National Swing Day" in their hon…
NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Justin Honard, co-writer and co-star of the "Drag: The Musical," a show that takes the audience inside the world of drag performances.
