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Sheryl Lee Ralph performs "Lift Every Voice and Sing" ahead of Super Bowl LVII.

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  • Arts & Life

Sheryl Lee Ralph explains why she almost left showbiz — and what kept her going

Sheryl Lee Ralph opens up about how she rediscovered her ability later in life, playing Barbara Howard in Abbott Elementary, and how she thinks about her success later in her life.

February 21, 2023
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By:
  • Juana Summers,
  • Ashley Brown,
  • and 1 more
Naomi Rodgers as Tina Turner in Tina musical

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  • Music Interviews

Tina Turner musical at Fox Theatre features Emory grad in complex role of Ike Turner

Tina: The Tina Turner Musical explores the life and musical genius of the Queen of Rock and Roll –– and in some scenes, her abusive former husband.

February 20, 2023
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By:
  • Leah Fleming
Colombian pianist Teresita Gómez is a legendary figure in that country's classical music scene.

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  • Performing Arts

At 3 she snuck in to play piano, at nearly 80, she's a Colombian classical legend

Teresita Gómez learned piano in secret at the exclusive fine arts school where her parents worked. She's now a celebrated classical pianist and a longtime promoter of music by Colombian composers.

February 18, 2023
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By:
  • Betto Arcos
A ballet dancer warms up before an open rehearsal at the Audi automobile factory in Gyor, Hungary, on Thursday. The Ballet Company of Gyor is rehearsing at the factory after being forced to shutter its rehearsal hall in response to soaring energy prices.

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  • Europe

An energy crunch forces a Hungarian ballet company to move to a car factory

The Ballet Company of Gyor began rehearsing at a local Audi factory last month after being forced to shutter its rehearsal hall in response to soaring energy prices.

February 18, 2023
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By:
  • The Associated Press
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in a rarely revived Lorraine Hansberry play.

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  • Theater

A rarely revived Lorraine Hansberry play is here — and it's messy but powerful

Hansberry is best known for A Raisin in the Sun — but as she lay dying, she wrote this play about the haplessness of white liberals. Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star.

February 13, 2023
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
The cover of SZA's latest album <em>SOS</em>.

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  • Pop Culture

What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend reading, listening and viewing

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the Switched on Pop episode about SZA, the movie Sharper, Burt Bacharach's legacy and more.

February 10, 2023
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By:
  • Christina Tucker,
  • Linda Holmes,
  • and 4 more
The multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes, whose Healing Project has won a $1 million grant from the Mellon Foundation.

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  • Arts & Life

An artist's 'Healing Project,' focused on incarceration and violence, wins $1 million

Multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes has explored mass incarceration for the last eight years. With this sizeable grant, he hopes to sustain "The Healing Project" for decades to come.

February 10, 2023
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
Gustavo Dudamel conducts the New York Philharmonic, March 9, 2022.

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  • Music Interviews

N.Y. Philharmonic chief looks to Gustavo 'Dudamel era' after historic appointment

New York philharmonic president and CEO Deborah Borda discusses the decisionmaking process behind bringing the superstar conductor to the Big Apple.

February 09, 2023
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By:
  • Olivia Hampton and
  • Leila Fadel
A repurposed school bus from Control Group Productions' climate change-focused immersive theater experience, <em>The End.</em>

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  • Theater

Theater never recovered from COVID — and now change is no longer a choice

With ticket sales way down and government relief mostly at an end, business as usual is not an option for nonprofit performing arts groups.

February 06, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Iryna Zhalovska and other dancers with The United Ukrainian Ballet train at The Kennedy Center. The company is performing <em>Giselle</em> there this week.

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  • Dance

60 dancers who fled the war now take the stage — as The United Ukrainian Ballet

The company, based in The Hague, is currently in Washington, D.C., performing Giselle at The Kennedy Center. The Ukrainian Ambassador says the ballet corps is like a secret weapon.

February 02, 2023
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Matt Butler performing at the Central Utah Correctional Facility.

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  • Music

Matt Butler has played concerts in more than 50 prisons and jails

"Reckless Son" is a one-man show by singer/songwriter Matt Butler inspired by the convicts he's met while touring American prisons and jails.

January 31, 2023
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By:
  • Phil Harrell and
  • Leila Fadel
United Ukrainian Ballet Company members Liza Gogidze and Oleksii Kniazkov in <em>Giselle</em>, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky.

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  • Performing Arts

Ballet dancers from across Ukraine bring 'Giselle' to the Kennedy Center

The United Ukrainian Ballet Company is made up of dancers taking refuge in the Netherlands. The company travels to Washington, D.C., to perform Giselle, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky.

January 29, 2023
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Members of the Grant Avenue Follies, a senior cabaret dance troupe based in San Francisco's Chinatown, collaborated with rapper Jason Chu on the Lunar New Year song "That Lunar Cheer."

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  • Music

San Francisco Chinatown seniors welcome in the Lunar New Year with rap

The Grant Avenue Follies are steeped in tap dance and the songs of the 1950s and '60s. But they are no strangers to hip-hop, as the track "That Lunar Cheer" shows.

January 22, 2023
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Playwright Paula Vogel speaks onstage during the 2017 Tony Awards.

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  • Arts & Life

A play about censorship is censored — and free speech groups are fighting back

PEN America and two other free speech groups are calling for school officials in Florida to reinstate a high school production of Paula Vogel's Indecent, a play that is itself about censorship.

January 11, 2023
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
<em>Trade, </em>created by Emma O'Halloran and Mark O'Halloran, will be featured at the PROTOTYPE festival this year.

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  • Performing Arts

Who says opera needs a grand stage? This festival is all about intimate productions

The PROTOTYPE festival, now in its 10th year, presents new operas and music-theater works in smaller settings. "We were trying to create a black box opera movement," says co-founder Beth Morrison.

January 08, 2023
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  • Jeff Lunden
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