• The Metropolitan Opera reimagines Mozart at Coney Island. It involves snakes
    Sunday, September 6, 2026 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    The Metropolitan Opera has reimagined a version of Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte" set at Coney Island in the 1950s. Live snakes were auditioned and a large boa constrictor named Princess has been cast.
  • How the producer of 'Fleabag' creates hits at the Fringe
    Monday, August 31, 2026 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    Before Baby Reindeer or Fleabag made it to the screen, they were small theater productions at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. And behind both is a producer you've probably never heard of.
  • Hit shows from Edinburgh's Fringe festival are coming to America. Here are our top picks
    Monday, August 31, 2026 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    Jake Brasch and Nadja Leonhard-Hooper are the duo the behind the musical Hole!, coming to New York this December. The annual "anything goes" performing arts festival featured more than 4,200 performances this year. These are the ones we're still talking about.
  • At this year's Fringe festival, the audience is hot and cold on a new performance space — in a sauna
    Sunday, August 30, 2026 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    Every August, millions gather in Edinburgh, Scotland, for the Fringe, the world's largest performing arts festival. This year's festival features a sauna.
  • Magician behind Broadway's 'Paranormal Activity,' 'Stranger Things' talks tricks
    Saturday, August 29, 2026 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    Cher Álvarez stars as Lou, part of a couple being haunted in the play <em>Paranormal Activity</em>. Audiences flock to Broadway each year for a dose of "theater magic." It turns out that some of that spectacle and wonder is created behind the scenes by actual magicians.
  • Before an emergency hearing, the Kennedy Center's board threatens to demolish it
    Thursday, August 27, 2026 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    The entry to the Kennedy Center on Aug. 25, where a tarp remains in place. A lawsuit seeks to block President Trump's name from going back on the center. The center's board warns that if renovation plans don't go forward, it may be demolished.
  • Tim Curry, who defined 'The Rocky Horror Picture Show,' has died
    Wednesday, August 26, 2026 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    Tim Curry played Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the tyrannical gender-bending alien scientist in both stage and screen versions of <em>The Rocky Horror Picture Show.</em> Curry will be most remembered for his role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the tyrannical gender-bending alien scientist in both stage and screen versions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show . He was 80.
  • Beatty files emergency request to stop Trump's name from returning to Kennedy Center
    Friday, August 21, 2026 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    National Guard troops patrolling outside the Kennedy Center on June 28. The entryway of the Washington, D.C. arts complex continues to be covered with a tarp after a federal judge ordered the organization Joyce Beatty, a Democratic representative from Ohio, asked a federal judge to stop the Kennedy Center trustees from putting President Trump's name up in three places at the arts complex.
  • Harvard's American Repertory Theater puts on revival of Ionesco's 'Rhinoceros'
    Friday, August 21, 2026 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    The American Repertory Theater at Harvard University premiers a revival of Eugène Ionesco's landmark play, "Rhinoceros." NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks to director Diane Paulus and actor John Turturro.
  • In new filings, Kennedy Center says it won't try to put Trump's name on facade until Sept. 8
    Wednesday, August 19, 2026 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    The scaffolding and tarp covering the facade of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 13. The tarp remains one of the questions at the center of a federal lawsuit. Lawyers for Rep. Joyce Beatty asked a judge to rule speedily on the complex's renovation and entrance tarp. The National Symphony Orchestra also announced its new season, away from the Kennedy Center.
  • 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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