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News Articles: Performing Arts

President Donald Trump talks to the media in the Hall of Nations during a tour at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts after leading a board meeting on March 17, 2025.

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  • Arts & Life

Former Kennedy Center president refutes Trump's critique of 'bad management'

"I am deeply troubled by the false allegations regarding the management of the Kennedy Center," Deborah Rutter wrote in a statement.

May 21, 2025
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  • Elizabeth Blair
"This play is about a woman with a dream that no one around her understands," Cole Escola says of their Tony-nominated play <em>Oh, Mary!</em>

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  • Theater

Mary Todd Lincoln as a cabaret star? How Cole Escola's 'stupid' dream came true

Escola gives the former first lady a wild second act in the Tony-nominated play Oh, Mary! "This play is about a woman with a dream that no one around her understands," Escola says.

May 19, 2025
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By:
  • Ann Marie Baldonado

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  • Arts & Life

Jonathan Groff loves criticism … up to a point

Jonathan Groff was destined for the stage. On this week's Wild Card with Rachel Martin Jonathan tells Rachel about how he takes criticism and learning to play piano for his new musical "Just in Time."

May 15, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Martin
Justin Hopkins (from left), Nathan Granner, David Morgans, Markel Reed and Chaz'men Williams-Ali rehearse a scene for the Detroit Opera's performances of Anthony Davis' opera <em>The Central Park Five </em>on May 10, 16 and 18.

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  • Performing Arts

This opera tells the story of 'The Central Park Five,' Donald Trump's role included

In 1989, Trump took out full-page newspaper ads demanding the death penalty "for roving bands of wild criminals." The Detroit Opera decided to program this work long before the presidential election.

May 13, 2025
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
"I don't know what comes after this, what tops this over stimulation of characters," Sarah Snook says of her work in <em>The Picture of Dorian Gray.</em>

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  • Theater

1 show, 26 characters: Sarah Snook shares the stage with herself in 'Dorian Gray'

Snook, who played Shiv Roy on Succession, was just nominated for a Tony for playing all the characters in The Picture of Dorian Gray on Broadway. "I don't know what comes after this," she says.

May 05, 2025
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By:
  • Ann Marie Baldonado
Women rehearse inside Radio City Music Hall before the Rockettes open auditions, on April 22, 2025.

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  • Arts & Life

Times have changed — but the Rockettes keep kicking

Nearly 1,000 women from around the country flew to New York City to audition for the dance troupe on its 100th anniversary. What's helped it last so long?

May 05, 2025
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco
Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond in <em>Sunset Blvd</em>.

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  • Performing Arts

2025 Tony nominations are out — and they're full of celebrities

Broadway isn't just back — it's raising the bar. Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending tied for most nominations. Plus, nods to George Clooney, Nicole Scherzinger and more.

May 01, 2025
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco
Philippa Hughes attends "Looking For America," a  series of dinners and art exhibitions, at the El Paso Museum of History in 2019.

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  • Arts & Life

The Vietnam War tore her family apart. She's bringing people together.

Philippa Hughes' life spans war, international romance, divorce, an abduction, art and politics. As one of the few liberals in her family, she knows how divisions can break a family and a country.

April 29, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Left to right: Alana Arenas (Morgan), Kara Young (Aziza), Harry Lennix (Solomon), LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Claudine), Glenn Davis (Junior) and Jon Michael Hill (Naz) perform in a Broadway production of the play <em>Purpose</em>, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Phylicia Rashad.

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  • Theater

A civil rights leader's family airs its dirty laundry on Broadway in 'Purpose'

"Purpose" by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, now on Broadway under the direction of longtime actress Phylicia Rashad, explores the generational conflicts in the civil rights movement.

April 01, 2025
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By:
  • Michel Martin and
  • Olivia Hampton
The Kennedy Center in Washington DC laid off its social impact team on Tuesday — the latest in a wave of dramatic changes at the national performing arts institution.

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  • Performing Arts

Kennedy Center lays off Social Impact employees

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., has dissolved its Social Impact division, which partnered with local organizations to bring in diverse artists and audiences.

March 26, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
Conan O'Brien at the 97th Oscars held at the Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2025 in Hollywood, California.

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  • Arts & Life

Comedians will celebrate Conan O'Brien at the Kennedy Center on Sunday. Will they take on Trump?

Conan O'Brien will receive one of the most coveted awards in comedy on Sunday — but the annual event takes place at a tense time for the Kennedy Center.

March 21, 2025
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  • Elizabeth Blair
In February, President Trump broke tradition when he dismissed Kennedy Center leadership and appointed a new Board of Trustees.

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  • Arts & Life

During tour, Trump declares the Kennedy Center is in "tremendous disrepair"

President Trump toured the Kennedy Center today and presided over its board meeting. He expressed deep dissatisfaction with the current state of the performing arts center.

March 17, 2025
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By:
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
John Kani in <em>Kunene and the King </em>at Shakespeare Theatre Company.

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  • Arts & Life

John Kani risked his life to tell stories of apartheid — at 81, he's still at it

The South African actor has been speaking out about racial injustice for decades, often in collaboration with the late playwright Athol Fugard. Kunene and the King is Kani's latest project.

March 17, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Jasmine Amy Rogers takes a bow as Betty Boop in <em>BOOP!</em> <em>The Musical</em> now on Broadway.

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  • Theater

This Betty Boop is Broadway's newest star

Jasmine Amy Rogers is starring in her first Broadway musical. Eight years ago, NPR talked with her when she was still in high school.

March 16, 2025
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
In 2012, playwright Athol Fugard, who was then 80, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2012/08/02/157732975/playwright-fugard-bucked-south-africas-racist-ideas"target="_blank"   >said,</a> "I have a greater sense of adventure at this moment in my life than I ever had in the past." Fugard is pictured above in February 1985.

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  • Obituaries

Playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, dies at 92

The celebrated South African playwright was known for Blood Knot, The Road to Mecca and "Master Harold"...and the Boys. He said his job was to make "leaps out of my reality and into other realities."

March 10, 2025
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  • Jeff Lunden
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