A New Kind Of Tragic Prince In 'King Charles III' by Jeff Lunden

Mike Bartlett's play King Charles III is a Shakespearean meditation on what might happen if Prince Charles became king " and caused a crisis by sticking to his principles rather than what's …

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 6:05am on November 4, 2015☆⚑

A New Kind Of Tragic Prince In 'King Charles III' by Jeff Lunden

Mike Bartlett's play King Charles III is a Shakespearean meditation on what might happen if Prince Charles became king " and caused a crisis by sticking to his principles rather than what's …

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 7:47pm on November 3, 2015☆⚑

Stephen Park On Playing A Code-Switching Character In Steinbeck's 'East Of Eden' by Amy Yee

Park plays Lee, a Chinese servant with an interesting approach to getting by in America, in a new theatrical adaptation of John Steinbeck's classic.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 1:37pm on November 3, 2015☆⚑

Annaleigh Ashford Barks Up The Right Tree On Broadway by Jeff Lunden

The Masters of Sex actress is no stranger to Broadway; in fact, she's already won a Tony. Now she's in her first starring role, in Sylvia " and prepping by watching her pet, because she play…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:57pm on November 1, 2015☆⚑

Dramatist David Hare Says, Like Many Writers, He's Driven By Doubt by NPR Staff

"My ability to see what's going on in a room or analyze what's going on inside a person comes from my own doubts about what's going on inside myself," he says. Hare's memoir is The Blue Touc…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 5:50am on October 31, 2015☆⚑

Eddie Murphy Jokes After Accepting Top Prize For Humor by The Associated Press

The Kennedy Center presented the comedian with the Mark Twain Prize on Sunday. While honored, Murphy did jokingly point out one thing: "Usually when there's a prize, there's money."

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 7:10am on October 19, 2015☆⚑

After Decades On Stage, Arthur Miller's Works Defy The Final Curtain by Tom Vitale

The great American playwright was born a century ago Saturday. An activist as much as he was a writer, Miller challenged social ills in playscripts " and set a new standard for the citizen-a…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:34pm on October 17, 2015☆⚑

O Romeo, Romeo, What The Heck Are You Saying? by Aaron Scott

Wherefore art "thou"? Why not "you" instead? The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is making an ambitious " and controversial " attempt to rewrite the Bard's plays into modern-day English.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:34pm on October 17, 2015☆⚑

Farewell To Blackfaced Otellos At The Met by Jeff Lunden

In its season opening production, New York's Metropolitan Opera abandons the tradition of darkening the skin of tenors portraying the title role in Verdi's Otello.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 3:32pm on October 15, 2015☆⚑

Daily Show's Hasan Minhaj on Prom Woes, Indian Dads, And White Folks At Desi Weddings by Elizabeth Blair

Comedian's absorbing tale as a first generation American and the NBA (New Brown America).

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 5:03pm on October 14, 2015☆⚑

'Spring Awakening' Returns To Broadway " In Sign Language by Neda Ulaby

The hit musical only closed six years ago, and now it's back, in a well-reviewed revival featuring hearing and deaf actors, who sing and sign during the performance.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 4:42pm on October 13, 2015☆⚑

Deluge Contaminates And Destroys Ballet School by Elizabeth Blair

The South Carolina flood has left the Columbia Classical Ballet Company without not just its costumes and scores but its building.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 8:20pm on October 6, 2015☆⚑

In Argentina, Where Culture Is 'A Right,' A Free New Arts Center Opens by Bob Mondello

Argentina's newest tourist attraction is housed in a repurposed century-old Beaux Arts Central Post Office building. The Centro Cultural Kirchner is one of the largest cultural centers in th…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 7:28am on October 3, 2015☆⚑

Guest DJ Rita Moreno On Fighting Back And Winning by Jasmine Garsd

The iconic actress and singer joins Alt.Latino to discuss the life of a Latina in Hollywood, as well as what the original West Side Story lyrics said.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 1:01pm on October 1, 2015☆⚑

Michelle Dorrance: 'I Just Knew I Would Never Stop Tap Dancing' by NPR Staff

Dorrance was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship on Tuesday. For her, tap dance is the ultimate art form; "To be able to be a dancer and a musician at the same time " there's nothing like it," sh…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:20am on September 30, 2015☆⚑

From Ingenue To Antigone: Juliette Binoche Discusses Acting, Aging And Family

The Oscar-winning actress plays Antigone in a new translation of Sophocles' 2,000-year-old tragedy. "It's a very powerful play," Binoche says. Sophocles "still is bringing so much truth in o…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 5:57pm on September 28, 2015☆⚑

No Vanity Project: Baryshnikov Tells Artists, 'You're The Boss' by Elizabeth Blair

You'd think the sign in front of dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov's arts center would have his name in lights " but actually, you can barely see it. He says what happens inside is way more importa…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 6:01am on September 28, 2015☆⚑

Out Of 'The Object Lesson,' An Education In The Power Of Kept Things by Arun Rath

Geoff Sobelle calls his new one-man play "a meditation on our relationship to things." On a visit to the show, NPR's Arun Rath gathers a lesson in the meaning of stuff -- and the memories it…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:07am on September 28, 2015☆⚑

For Opera Powerhouse Dolora Zajick, 'Singing Is Connected To The Body'

The mezzo-soprano discovered opera as a 22-year-old pre-med student. She took "a crack at a singing career" and has been at the Metropolitan Opera for 25 years. Originally broadcast March 14…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 4:39pm on September 25, 2015☆⚑

Black Girlhood Takes Center Stage In A Work That's Serious About 'Play' by Neda Ulaby

"Black girls playing; black girl joy" " that's what choreographer Camille Brown says her new show is all about. She's taking Black Girl: Linguistic Play to stages, schools and prisons around…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 9:31pm on September 22, 2015☆⚑

Wildfire Smoke Can Be A Show Stopper At The Oregon Shakespeare Festival by Jes Burns

With wildfires raging across the Pacific Northwest, festival organizers must frequently assess the air quality for the safety of the audience and performers. Six shows have been cancelled so…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 8:20am on September 20, 2015☆⚑

Set In Los Angeles, Greek Tragedy 'Medea' Gets A Modern Twist by Jason Derose

The Greek tragedy Medea has been rewritten for the modern age. Mojada: A Medea, running in LA, is set in Southern California and involves a border crossing, a garment worker and a straying h…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 2:00pm on September 19, 2015☆⚑

Monty Python's John Cleese, Eric Idle Reunite In 'Together Again At Last'

NPR's Robert Siegel talks to comedians John Cleese and Eric Idle of Monty Python about their new show, Together Again At Last...For The Very First Time, which begins its U.S. tour in October.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 5:40pm on September 15, 2015☆⚑

Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club Holds 1st Auditions For Female Performers by Craig Lemoult

The first women auditioned for the Harvard musical theater group, Hasty Pudding, this weekend, which has never had a female member in the troop.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 5:08pm on September 14, 2015☆⚑

Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Frank D. Gilroy Dies At 89 by Doreen McCallister

Frank D. Gilroy, who won a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony Award and a Drama Critic's Circle Award for The Subject Was Roses, died on Saturday. The play is about a World War II veteran returning home…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 4:56am on September 14, 2015☆⚑