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News Articles: Performing Arts

Misty Copeland performs onstage during the 62nd Annual GRAMMY Awards.

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  • Performing Arts

Misty Copeland launches a program for kids to encourage more diversity in ballet

The Be Bold initiative will be based in New York City. The goal is to teach children ages 8-10 about the basics of ballet and offer other tutoring.

September 17, 2022
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
A poster advertising "The Phantom of the Opera" is displayed on the shuttered Majestic Theatre in New York on March 12, 2020. Broadway's longest-running show is scheduled to close in February 2023.

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  • Arts & Life

'The Phantom of the Opera,' Broadway's longest-running show, will close next year

The musical — a fixture on Broadway since 1988, weathering recessions, war and cultural shifts — will play its final performance in New York on Feb. 18, 2023.

September 17, 2022
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By:
  • The Associated Press
San Francisco Opera prompter Matthew Piatt sits in the prompter's box at the War Memorial Opera House.

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  • Arts & Life

The hidden world of an opera prompter

One of the world's greatest living composers, John Adams, has a new opera, and the prompter keeps Anthony and Cleopatra from flying off the rails.

September 15, 2022
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Members of the English punk band the Sex Pistols. From left: Lead singer and songwriter John Joseph Lydon a.k.a. Johnny Rotten, drummer Paul Cook, bass guitarist John Simon Ritchie a.k.a. Sid Vicious and guitarist Steve Jones.

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  • Arts & Life

British pop music has a fraught relationship with Queen Elizabeth

Since the 1970s, the UK's punk, alternative and hip-hop artists have used music to share their feelings about the late monarch and what she represents.

September 14, 2022
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Oleksandr Shapoval volunteered to fight after the Russia invasion. The National Opera of Ukraine says he was killed on the battlefield.

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  • Arts & Life

Ukrainian ballet dancer Oleksandr Shapoval is killed on the battlefield

Shapoval volunteered to fight after Russia invaded Ukraine. His unit was recently sent to one of "the hottest zones" in the country, according to The National Opera of Ukraine.

September 14, 2022
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair

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  • Theater

'My Body No Choice' — Arena Stage advocates for reproductive rights

On the eve of the 2022 election, Arena Stage presents monologues on the theme of choice by eight female playwrights. The show runs for 18 performances and tickets are $18, a nod to the US voting age.

September 09, 2022
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By:
  • Bob Mondello

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  • Dance

COMIC: Finding my voice through dance

For Camille A. Brown, choreography unlocked a new way to understand her power as a dancer, and to celebrate her creative identity.

August 19, 2022
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By:
  • LA Johnson and
  • Breena Nunez
Heche suffered burns and an inhalation injury after she crashed her car earlier this month.

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  • Arts & Life

Coroner rules Anne Heche's death an accident

According to the the LA County Coroner's report, the cause was inhalation and thermal injuries. The actor died on Sunday, after she crashed her car earlier this month.

August 18, 2022
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green, co-authors of <em>Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers</em>

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  • Theater

Published 8 years after her death, Mary Rodgers' memoir is a true tell-all book

Rodgers, the daughter of theatrical legend Richard Rogers, was a songwriter, children's book author and philanthropist. Her memoir, Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers, is out now.

August 11, 2022
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
Artist Tunde Olaniran

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  • Arts & Life

Artist Tunde Olaniran's 'Made a Universe' opens a portal at a Detroit museum

Musician and artist Tunde Olaniran is a rising star from Flint, Michigan whose exuberant work comments on serious issues such as environmental injustice and the carceral state.

July 30, 2022
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
The Heart of Afghanistan project is Ahmad Fanoos on vocals & harmonium, his sons Elham on piano and Mehran on violin, with Hamid Habibzada on tabla.

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  • Arts & Life

Thousands of Afghan artists are still trying to flee the Taliban

A family of Afghan musicians in the U.S. wants to raise awareness about their plight.

July 29, 2022
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Actress Mary Alice holding her Emmy Award in the press room in 1993.

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  • Arts & Life

Tony and Emmy winning actress Mary Alice has died at age 85

From Rose Maxson in Fences on Broadway to Lettie Bostic on TV's A Different World, Alice's career encompassed comedy, drama, stage and screen.

July 28, 2022
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Patience (Talise Trevigne, right) comforts Castor (Reginald Smith Jr.) after his breakdown over the crush of dept and his search for a solution as other family members look on.

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  • Arts & Life

'Castor and Patience' opera explores systematic barriers to Black land ownership

Cousins struggle with debts and may have to sell property long held by their family in a work created by former poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner Tracy K. Smith and composer Gregory Spears.

July 26, 2022
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By:
  • Elizabeth Kramer
Brandi Carlile (right) introduces Joni Mitchell for a special Joni Jam at the 2022 Newport Folk Festival at Fort Adams State Park, R.I., on Sunday.

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  • Arts & Life

Here's why Joni Mitchell's performance at the Newport Folk Festival is so incredible

The iconic singer-songwriter wasn't able to walk or talk after a brain aneurysm in 2015. Dr. Anthony Wang, a neurosurgeon, explains the challenges she faced as a musician and her remarkable comeback.

July 26, 2022
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By:
  • Vanessa Romo
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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: Hurricane Season, A Strange Loop, and more.

July 22, 2022
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  • Linda Holmes,
  • Aisha Harris,
  • and 3 more
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