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Ain't Too Proud, a musical based on Motown legends The Temptations, is up for 12 Tony Awards. NPR's Noel King talks with actor Derrick Baskin and writer Dominique Morisseau.
We present our Not My Job super heros featuring Ruth E. Carter, Charles "Peanut" Tillman, Aidy Bryant, Aaron Sorkin, and Stacey Abrams.
The American Federation of Musicians' fund will reduce benefits for an estimated 20,000 of its 80,000 members due to stresses caused by the 2008 financial crisis " and a steadily aging membe…
Singer Alicia Hall Moran and pianist Jason Moran mix original music works with 20th century spoken word to reflect on The Great Migration, when African Americans moved from the South to the …
Kate Mulgrew, actor, joins us along with panelists Alonzo Bodden, Faith Salie, and Tom Papa.
The mega-star sold tens of millions of records and had 11 No. 1 hits throughout her career. And in less than year, Houston, or at least a light-projected version of her, could be at it again.
Ten years after leaving his childhood home in West Bengal, photographer Soumya Sankar Bose returned to find that stars of Jatra, a popular local form of folk theater, were fading from public…
The Latin American Library at Tulane University is digitizing a whopping collection of Cold War-era, must-hear entertainment " Spanish language radionovelas made by Cuban emigrés in Miami.
Lance Reddick, actor, joins us along with panelists Roy Blount, Jr., Helen Hong, and Adam Felber.
NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Gabe Barre, director of Amazing Grace: The Musical, which is currently playing at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C.
Ozzie Smith, former Cardinals shortstop, joins us along with panelists Tom Bodett, Amy Dickingson, and Brian Babylon.
The comic and actor, known for his boundary-pushing stand-up routines and his sketch comedy TV series Chappelle's Show, will receive the award in a gala at the Kennedy Center.
Steve Ballmer, owner of the LA Clippers, joins us along with panelists Roxanne Roberts, Peter Grosz, and Petey DeAbreu.
Jo Sullivan Loesser, who died April 28, married Frank Loesser after starring in his Broadway show, The Most Happy Fella. After Frank died in 1969, she helped preserve his legacy.
In the Broadway musical The Prom, a high school PTA cancels the dance rather than allowing two girls to attend together. The show was just nominated for seven Tony Awards.
Tootsie, Beetlejuice and The Prom round up the Tony category for best musical, while The Ferryman, Gary, Ink, Choir Boy and What the Constitution Means to Me are all up for best play.
The play chronicles Rupert Murdoch's attempts to upend the insular world of British newspaper publishing " how he bought a struggling paper called The Sun and turned it into a widely read ta…
Laird Hamilton, big wave surfer, joins us along with panelists Paula Poundstone, Luke Burbank, and Bobcat Goldthwait.
A wife and then a mother to Canadian prime ministers, she addresses her time in the public eye and her battles with mental illness in an upcoming one-woman show called Certain Woman Of An Ag…
A high school in northern New Jersey staged a version of the movie Alien and got the blessing of film director Ridley Scott. Now there's a revival with a bigger budget, some provided by Scot…
He's a favorite of other comics " a physical, observational and airtight performer who works "clean." All that helps explain why families make up a good portion of his massive audience.
Medoff is best known for Children of a Lesser God, a play about a young deaf woman's romance with her speech teacher.
The 82-year-old British actor is currently playing Shakespeare's famed tragic figure on Broadway. "Doors have opened for women that were firmly locked many decades ago," she says.
William Shatner, Candice Berger, Conan O'Brien, and Aaron Gordon are featured, along with some new material.
To celebrate the centennial of the modern-dance pioneer's birth, dancers at theaters in London, New York and Los Angeles performed a total of 100 solos that the master choreographed.
