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News Articles: Performing Arts

The Family Stone performs at Harvard Stadium in 1969.

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  • Obituaries

Sly Stone, visionary funk frontman of the Family Stone, has died at age 82

The musical visionary led a multi-racial funk band that produced five Top 10 hits in the late 1960s and early '70s.

June 10, 2025
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  • Brandon Gates
Helen J Shen and Darren Criss in <em>Maybe Happy Ending, </em>which won the Tony Award for Best Musical.<br>

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  • Performing Arts

Broadway celebrates a spectacular season at the 2025 Tony Awards

No one show swept this year — and it turns out, that's a good thing.

June 09, 2025
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  • Jennifer Vanasco
The cast and crew of <em>Maybe Happy Ending</em> accept the award for Best Musical during the 78th Annual Tony Awards.

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  • Performing Arts

Tony Awards 2025: The complete list of winners

NPR is updating this list of Tony Award winners as they are announced.

June 08, 2025
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By:
  • Chloee Weiner
Myung-Whun Chung conducts the Radio France Philharmonic orchestra during a rehearsal at the Maison de la Radio before its inauguration on November 14, 2014, in Paris.

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  • World

South Korean maestro Chung will be the first Asian to head Italy's famed La Scala

Myung-Whun Chung will be one of the first non-Italians to take the post of music director at Milan's famous opera house.

June 06, 2025
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  • Anthony Kuhn

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  • Arts & Life

Orville Peck always wants a sense of mystery

Orville Peck is performing on Broadway as the Emcee in Cabaret. His winding path to his dream role included a stint as a punk drummer and hitting pause on his country career to get sober.

June 05, 2025
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  • Rachel Martin
Drag king Freddie Hercury performs at an event in Homer, N.Y., in 2023. The artist faced an online bomb threat in the run-up to a Pride performance in 2024.

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  • Performing Arts

Drag artists are getting attacked. This safety handbook aims to help.

As Pride Month approaches, a group of drag artists and their allies are releasing guidelines to help performers navigate a landscape of online harassment and physical violence.

May 29, 2025
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  • Chloe Veltman
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

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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Michel Martin and
  • Olivia Hampton
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