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Mozart's elegant masterpiece of marital discord, Le Nozze di Figaro, conducted by Met Music Director James Levine and staged by Richard Eyre, is the season nine premiere of Great Performance…
Sutton Foster has won Tony Awards for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical in 2002 for the role of Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie and in 2011 for her perfor…
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioZACHARY GREEN: Come to Times Square in New York City, and this is a site you're likely to see: people lined up at the TKTS booth to buy discount tickets to p…
Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Zubin Mehta, from Vien…
Acclaimed opera soprano Renée Fleming sings “Danny Boy,” a song dear to Irish Americans, at the American Voices Concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. The performance …
Julie Andrews takes a coffee break from hosting From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2015 in Café Griensteidl, right beside Vienna’s Imperial Palace. The original Café Griensteidl…
The first documentary about the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning playwright August Wilson is a co-production of THIRTEEN's American Masters series and WQED.
American Masters " August Wilson: Th…
This star-studded 90-minute performance documentary offers an overview of the Kennedy Center's weekend-long American Voices festival, which was created and hosted by Renée Fleming in Novemb…
Norman Bridwell, who brought Clifford the Big Red Dog to life in a series of books and later an animated show on PBS, died in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts on Friday. He was 86 year…
Patricia Racette performed the role of Cio-Cio-San in the 2009 Met production of Puccini’s tragic love story opera, Madama Butterfly. Racette sings the heartbreaking aria of hope, "Un …
The deadly rage and passion of Don José, played by Roberto Alagna, is unleashed upon his former lover, Carmen, played by ElÄ«na GaranÄa, in this final scene of Bizet’s Carmen. De…
Deborah Voigt, host of Encores! Great Performances at the Met, is included in the highlights of past Metropolitan Opera production. Voigt performed the role of Isolde in Tristan and Isolde, …
Adam Mansbach, author of "Go the F*ck to Sleep,” explains why Samuel L Jackson was his first choice for the audio book in this online exclusive.
When Adams Mansbach published, "Go the …
Poet and playwright Claudia Rankine reads a prose poem from her recently book, “Citizen." The collection deals with the violent deaths of black men that have dominated the headlines ov…
Stage and screen legend Julie Andrews returns for the sixth time to host the festive annual New Year's celebration with the Vienna Philharmonic, under the direction of Zubin Mehta, from Vien…
From Natalie Dessay and Anna Netrebko to Juan Diego Flórez and Jonas Kaufmann, see show-stopping excerpts from "Carmen," "Rigoletto," "La Bohème," and more, hosted by soprano Deborah Voi…
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In this web-exclusive outtake from American Masters: Inventing David Geffen (2012), Mike Nichols speaks about the ability to not give up and …
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSRemembering the Life and Work of Writer, Director Nora Ephron Conversation: Harold Ramis and Bernard Sahlins on Second City's 50th Anniversary R…
Mike Nichols and wife Diane Sawyer pose at The Opening Night of ‘The Real Thing’ on Broadway at American Airlines Theatre on October 30, 2014 in New York City. Nichols died Wedn…
The most famous song from the musical Cats is the bittersweet ballad, “Memory,” sung by the ostracized character, Grizabella, “the Glamour Cat.” She once led a more g…
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Bing Crosby sang as if he were addressing only one person with his voice.
"What Bing created was the art of intimacy," says singer Tony…
In the ensemble number “Invitation to the Jellicle Ball,” the cats discuss the much-anticipated annual event, the Jellicle Ball. The character Munkustrap explains the purpose of …
Watch Video | Listen to the AudioRELATED LINKSConversation: The State of Ballet in America, Part 1 Bolshoi Ballet hopes dancing, not drama gets the spotlight in 2014 Legendary Dancer Baryshn…
The Rum Tum Tugger is the bad boy of the cast of Cats. He’s sexy and he knows it and takes pleasure in teasing his many admirers. Andrew Lloyd Webber gives Rum Tum Tugger’s theme…
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