NPR’s latest on the performing arts

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with actor Michael Imperioli about his Broadway debut in An Enemy of the People and the relevance of this adaptation of the play, roughly 150 years after the original.
Author: Kai McNamee
Posted: March 18, 2024, 9:14 pm
The upcoming immersive "Elvis Evolution" experience in London employs everything from cutting edge AI to a 200-year-old magic trick.
Author: Chloe Veltman
Posted: March 15, 2024, 9:01 am
It's basically spring - which means wedding season is starting to rev up. And no one does weddings quite like Jennifer Lopez - both on-screen and off. Host Brittany Luse revisits her conversation with New York Magazine features writer Rachel Handler to break down J.Lo's wedding planning movies, how they add to J.Lo's brand, and what they say about our investment in the real-life wedding industrial complex.
Author: Brittany Luse
Posted: March 12, 2024, 7:38 pm
The comic can pick up on the "micro bad mood" of whoever she's talking to. And when she wants her 3-year-old daughter to open up, she talks to her in the voice of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On.
Author: Terry Gross
Posted: March 12, 2024, 4:05 pm
The Apollo Chamber Players in Houston, Texas, create concerts in response to book banning, the refugee crisis, the war in Gaza and other world events. Thousands of people attend their performances.
Author: Neda Ulaby
Posted: March 3, 2024, 12:00 pm
The Brooklyn-born comic made his standup debut in 1971. His routines were full of biting takes on love, life, and physical and mental health. Lewis died Feb. 27. Originally broadcast in '88 and 2000.
Author: Terry Gross
Posted: March 1, 2024, 6:24 pm
High school students in Alexandria, Va., honor Black history with art, dance and theater.
Author: Shelby Hawkins
Posted: February 29, 2024, 10:11 am
A Navajo musician has begun performing a song that will last as long as the Navajo Long Walk, the forced removal of the tribe from their desert homelands in the 1860s.
Author: Clark Adomaitis
Posted: February 27, 2024, 10:01 am
The improv and comedy organization that famously shuns New York City has just opened in Brooklyn — with a 200-seat mainstage, a 60-seat second stage, classrooms and a restaurant.
Author: Jeff Lunden
Posted: February 24, 2024, 12:53 pm
Brittany feels like we've entered a new phase of celebrity oligarchy; new celebrity business enterprises are popping up daily, and we can't seem to get away from it all. But is this new? Brittany invites culture journalists Bobby Finger and Lindsey Weber to discuss how the notion of celebrity is changing, and what it means for us.

Then, we turn to Hayao Miyazaki, the legendary animator-director whose latest film, The Boy and the Heron, is a frontrunner at this year's Academy Awards. Brittany is joined by Jessica Neibel, Senior Exhibitions Curator at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, to unpack the life lessons Miyazaki's films offer, from the unreliability of adults to the messages of resilience rooted in Miyazaki's own postwar childhood.

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Author: Brittany Luse
Posted: February 23, 2024, 10:09 pm