• Ballet star Misty Copeland says farewell to the stage
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    Misty Copeland was the first Black principal dancer at the prestigious American Ballet Theatre.
  • Misty Copeland hangs up her pointe shoes after performing at retirement show
    Thursday, October 23, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    Misty Copeland, left, and Oprah Winfrey attend the American Ballet Theatre Misty Copeland took one last spin on her pointe shoes Wednesday, as she retired after a trailblazing career in which she became an ambassador for diversity in an overwhelmingly white art form.
  • Drew Struzan, artist of iconic movie posters, dies at 78
    Tuesday, October 14, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    <em>Back To The Future</em> and <em>Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade </em>posters were illustrated by Drew Struzan. The artist and illustrator created iconic posters for movie franchises like Indiana Jones , Star Wars and Back to the Future .
  • Talks resume as Broadway actors consider a strike
    Wednesday, October 8, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    A curtain call during a performance of <em>Hamilton</em> on Broadway at Richard Rodgers Theatre on Sept. 9, 2025 in New York City. The union representing Broadway actors and stage managers says it is getting close to a strike. Broadway's union for performers and stage managers says the sticking point is health care.
  • Where are Kennedy Center audiences going?
    Monday, October 6, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    Most of us have a venue we love — a theater or concert space — where we really feel at home. But what do you do if that place goes through radical changes?
  • Bread and Puppet Theater is still working to 'make the revolution irresistible'
    Monday, October 6, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    A puppeteer plays a mourning mother in Gaza during a performance of <em>Our Domestic Resurrection Revolution In Progress! </em>in Ypsilanti, Mich. The decades-old radical troupe Bread and Puppet, famed for its protest art including giant puppets, is touring again — mixing circus, politics and bread in a sharply polarized moment.
  • I remember doing the Time Warp: The 'Rocky Horror Picture Show' turns 50
    Friday, September 26, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    The Rocky Horror Picture Show during the 2025 TCM Classic Film Festival at TCL Chinese Theatre on April 25 in Hollywood, California." class="feed_informer_first_image" /> Fifty years ago, on Sept. 26, 1975, The Rocky Horror Picture Show flopped at the U.S. box office — then became the longest-running theatrical release in history.
  • A new play explores the story behind the March on Washington
    Wednesday, September 24, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    Ro Boddie as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Stephen Conrad Moore as Bayard Rustin in the 2025 <a href=Ford" class="feed_informer_first_image" /> Chess Jakobs' new play "The American Five" tells the story of how Martin Luther King Jr. and his closest allies planned the March on Washington. NPR speaks with Jakobs and Ro Boddie, who plays King.
  • Bad Bunny skipped touring the states. Will other performers follow suit?
    Thursday, September 18, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny performing onstage in San Juan on July 11 during the first night of his 30-show residency in Puerto Rico. Artists from abroad are worried that the current climate is making American tours not worth the time and effort.
  • Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter go on a new excellent adventure: 'Waiting for Godot'
    Wednesday, September 17, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter in a revival of Samuel Beckett In one of the most buzzed-about productions of the Broadway season, former Bill & Ted actors Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter unite once again in "Waiting for Godot."
  • Coronavirus: Matthew Bourne productions to be broadcast on TV
    Thursday, April 16, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    Matthew Bourne shows including Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake and The Car Man will be screened on Sky Arts as part of
  • Coronavirus: Graeae and Jack Thorne collaborate on digital lockdown programme
    Thursday, April 16, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    Disabled-led theatre company Graeae has announced plans for a three-month digital programme designed to celebrate D/deaf and disabled artists. Harry Potter playwright
  • Cross-party research into creative diversity calls for evidence
    Thursday, April 16, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Creative Diversity is calling for evidence for a year-long research project into how to boost diversity and
  • Coronavirus: Future of rural touring at risk as 1,000 performances cancelled
    Thursday, April 16, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    More than 1,000 performances in rural communities have already been cancelled as a result of coronavirus, leaving many organisations at risk of
  • Coronavirus: Old Vic will need ‘critical’ fundraising, warns Matthew Warchus
    Thursday, April 16, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    Old Vic artistic director Matthew Warchus has revealed plans to reopen the venue in November, but has warned that “a critical and
  • Coronavirus: Bristol Old Vic launches online platform
    Thursday, April 16, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    Bristol Old Vic is launching a digital theatre platform for its audiences and artists during the Covid-19 pandemic. Called Bristol Old Vic
  • Coronavirus: Octagon Theatre forced to delay reopening following £10m redevelopment
    Thursday, April 16, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    The reopening of Bolton’s Octagon Theatre following a £10 million redevelopment has been postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, leaving the organisation
  • Coronavirus: London fringe theatre feeds vulnerable local people
    Wednesday, April 15, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    West London venue the Playground Theatre has begun to make free meals for local elderly and vulnerable people while its doors are
  • Coronavirus: Leading drama schools move teaching online for remainder of academic year
    Wednesday, April 15, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    Top UK drama schools including RADA and Arts Educational Schools London have shifted all teaching online at least until September. The move
  • Coronavirus: Seyi Omooba tribunal postponed as lockdown continues
    Wednesday, April 15, 2020 from The Stage | News Headlines
    A tribunal being brought against Curve Theatre in Leicester by Seyi Omooba – the performer removed from a production of The Color
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