'Invisible Thread' Is More Than A Musical About Uganda
Ten years ago, Griffin Matthews was singing in a church choir when his pastor found out he was gay and kicked him out. Feeling depressed, he booked a ticket to Uganda for mission work. What happened...
View ArticleConductor Kurt Masur Dies At 88
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: We're going to spend the next few minutes reflecting on musical accomplishments. A bit later, we're going to talk about the revival of the...
View ArticleSong From Broadway Musical 'Hamilton' Celebrates Founding Mothers
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The smash hit Broadway musical "Hamilton" mixes hip-hop with American history and features a multiracial cast. A lot's been written about the...
View ArticleOpera And Jazz Mingle In 'Charlie Parker's Yardbird'
You often don't think of opera at the famed Apollo Theater in Harlem. Tonight that changes: Charlie Parker's Yardbird gets its New York premiere there. It's an opera about the jazz saxophonist on the...
View Article'Ghost' Soprano Marni Nixon, Who Voiced Blockbuster Musicals, Dies At 86
You might not know Marni Nixon's name, but you've probably heard her. The singer dubbed the voices for Deborah Kerr in The King and I, Natalie Wood in West Side Story and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady...
View ArticleProlific Conductor Neville Marriner Has Died
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: Neville Marriner, the British violinist and conductor who founded one of the world's most popular chamber orchestras, has died today in...
View ArticleBringing A Christmas Classic To Wonderful Life — On Stage
Christmas is coming, and soon TV screens everywhere will light up with that 1946 holiday classic, It's a Wonderful Life . But the same story is coming a little early to the stage of the Houston Grand...
View ArticleSome Rockettes At Odds With Management Over Inauguration Performance
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: The inauguration of President Trump is a couple weeks away, and his team has been scrambling to find performers. One group that signed on is...
View ArticleBroadway's Getting A New Theater, Which Is Also Its Oldest
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit SCOTT SIMON, HOST: For decades, there have been exactly 40 Broadway theaters all between 41st and 65th Streets in Manhattan. Tonight, a new theater opens that...
View ArticleComposer Tim Minchin Brings 'Groundhog Day' To Broadway
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: Tonight a musical adaptation of the popular film "Groundhog Day" opens on Broadway. It's the story of a cynical weatherman who's forced to...
View Article2 Stars Share The Stage, And The Roles, In 'Little Foxes'
Lillian Hellman's 1939 melodrama The Little Foxes has two great roles for actresses over the age of 40. Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon fill those roles in a new revival on Broadway ... but with one big...
View ArticlePlaywright Edward Albee's Incomplete Works May Never See The Light Of Day
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee has been in the news a lot lately. Albee died in 2016 , and since then his estate has turned down a multi-racial production of Who's Afraid of Virginia...
View Article3 Top Ballet Companies Convene For The Golden Anniversary Of 'Jewels'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WOwWjwm-QY Russian, American and French ballet dancers are gathering Thursday night for a bit of cultural diplomacy at New York City's Lincoln Center. They're...
View ArticleCasting Directors On Broadway Seek To Unionize
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: One of the ingredients a successful Broadway show needs is a talented cast. That starts with talented casting directors, the people who can see...
View Article'We Shall Not Be Moved': A New Opera Traces The Legacy Of The 1985 MOVE Bombing
We Shall Not Be Moved is a new opera that takes its name from both the old spiritual-turned-civil-rights anthem and the Philadelphia black liberation group, MOVE. That group might be best-remembered...
View ArticleFamed Conductor Charles Dutoit Faces Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit MICHEL MARTIN, HOST: A major figure in the classical music world, conductor Charles Dutoit, has been accused of sexual misconduct in an article published...
View ArticlePeter Martins Leaves New York City Ballet Amid Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct
Copyright 2018 NPR. To see more, visit ROBERT SIEGEL, HOST: The #MeToo moment has come to the world of ballet. On Monday, Peter Martins, the head of the New York City Ballet and its affiliated school,...
View ArticleRepertorio Español Celebrates 50 Years With A World Premiere
One of the oldest and most distinguished Spanish language theaters in the U.S. is housed in a converted Manhattan brownstone. "It started actually as a private house," explains Robert Federico,...
View ArticleA Stage Revival, And 50 Years Of Survival, For 'The Boys In The Band'
Editor's note: This story includes language that some may find offensive. It was 1968. But playwright Mart Crowley felt he had to write what he knew. "Nobody wanted the play," Crowley says. "Not even...
View ArticleNew York Philharmonic, Metropolitan Opera Struggle To Find Their Way
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