• Evita Sings for the People in London; Gangs in Peru Target Schools
    Thursday, June 26, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 18: Members of the public watch Rachel Zegler perform As part of a broader crime wave in Peru that began during the COVID-19 pandemic, gangs have begun targeting private schools in poorer neighborhoods for extortion. We hear how administrators and parents are dealing with the threats. And...
  • The most talked-about performance on London's West End isn't on stage
    Wednesday, June 25, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    In London, an actor playing Evita sings "Don't Cry for Me, Argentina" from a balcony over the street. It's livestreamed back into the theater – frustrating ticket holders but delighting the public.
  • Democratic senators held an invite-only Pride event at the Kennedy Center
    Monday, June 23, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, April 2025. A group of Democratic senators and Hamilton producer Jeffrey Seller hosted a Pride celebration at the Kennedy Center Monday evening. But the Kennedy Center had nothing to do with programming it.
  • Ego Nwodim
    Tuesday, June 17, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 14: Ego Nwodim attends SNL50: The Homecoming Concert at Radio City Music Hall on February 14, 2025 in New York City. (Photo by Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images) This week on Bullseye , we talk to Ego Nwodim! She just wrapped up her seventh season as a cast member on Saturday Night Live . She talks with us about her roundabout path to comedy, including nods to her hometown in sketches, and a...
  • Sly Stone, visionary funk frontman of the Family Stone, has died at age 82
    Monday, June 9, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    The Family Stone performs at Harvard Stadium in 1969. The musical visionary led a multi-racial funk band that produced five Top 10 hits in the late 1960s and early '70s.
  • Broadway celebrates a spectacular season at the 2025 Tony Awards
    Monday, June 9, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    Helen J Shen and Darren Criss in <em>Maybe Happy Ending, </em>which won the Tony Award for Best Musical.<br> No one show swept this year — and it turns out, that's a good thing.
  • Tony Awards 2025: The complete list of winners
    Sunday, June 8, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    The cast and crew of <em>Maybe Happy Ending</em> accept the award for Best Musical during the 78th Annual Tony Awards. The 78th Annual Tony Awards ceremony, hosted by  Wicked  star Cynthia Erivo, was held Sunday at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. Maybe Happy Ending won best Musical and Purpose won best play.
  • 'Good Night, and Good Luck' brings its knock-out punch to CNN from Broadway
    Friday, June 6, 2025 from NPR Topics: Performing Arts
    On Jun 7, CNN is presenting a live telecast of George Clooney starring on Broadway as the pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow. TV critic David Bianculli calls it the TV event of the season.
  • 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
  • Dorny, Jurowski to Staatsoper
    Tuesday, March 6, 2018 from Musical America Blogs
    By ANDREW POWELL Published: March 6, 2018 MUNICH — The rumor emerged last fall, stuck around, and today became fact after a Bavarian state cabinet meeting: Serge Dorny, 56, and Vladimir Jurowski, 45, will in Sept. 2021 take over as...
  • SOME CANTANKEROUS MUSINGS ON PROPOSED LEGISLATION TO SPEED UP USCIS INCOMPETENCY
    Thursday, March 1, 2018 from Musical America Blogs
    By Brian Taylor Goldstein, Esq. For those of you who are unaware, on February 28, 2018 U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), both former chairmen of the Senate Judiciary Committee, have introduced the Arts Require...
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