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News Articles: Performing Arts

Billy Joel plays in Moscow in 1987.

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  • Arts & Life

Once, cultural ties to Russia were deliberate and hopeful. Now, they're eroding

Russia's growing isolation in the cultural world is poignant for those who remember optimistic outreach of the 80s and 90s.

March 13, 2022
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Billy Joel plays in Moscow in 1987.

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  • Arts & Life

Once, cultural ties to Russia were deliberate and hopeful. Now, they're eroding

Russia's growing isolation in the cultural world is poignant for those who remember optimistic outreach of the 80s and 90s.

March 13, 2022
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By:
  • Linda Holmes
Yo-Yo Ma played Ukraine's national anthem and brought the audience to its feet at the Kennedy Center on Monday.

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  • World

Yo-Yo Ma performs a musical protest outside the Russian Embassy

The world-famous cellist made a personal stand with Ukraine on Monday, setting up his instrument on the sidewalk in Washington, D.C., next to an improvised street sign reading, "Zelensky Way."

March 08, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Chappell
Semyon Bychkov, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in Vienna, Austria in 2017.

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  • Arts & Life

As performing artists denounce or stay allied with Putin, history offers some lessons

While Russian artists and institutions grapple with how they are viewed internationally, American cultural organizations make what amounts to foreign policy decisions.

March 03, 2022
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
A still from "We Hold These Truths." Music for the new opera was composed by Tamar-kali, and director dream hampton put that music to film, for the LA Opera's Digital Shorts series.

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  • Performing Arts

New opera teaches a classical music class in the ongoing fight for civil rights

Tamar-kali, who composed the music for Mudbound and Shirley, has a new project: an opera that you can watch online.

March 03, 2022
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By:
  • Tim Greiving
James Earl Jones accepts the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre during the 2017 Tony Awards in 2017.

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  • Arts & Life

A great Broadway theater is newly named for James Earl Jones

The Shubert Organization has renamed Broadway's Cort Theatre in honor of the eminent actor who has won many accolades over the course of a career that spans more than six decades.

March 03, 2022
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By:
  • Neda Ulaby
Warren Easton Charter High School's marching band members line up in formation. Their instruments, among many, include sousaphones, cymbals, and a drum section with snare, tenor and bass drums.

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  • Music

With the return of Mardi Gras marching bands, New Orleans' streets are full of magic

The bands may be smaller this year, but students say they're prepared to keep the culture alive and entertain hundreds of thousands of revelers.

March 01, 2022
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By:
  • Aubri Juhasz
Conductor Semyon Bychkov, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in a performance in Vienna in 2017.

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  • Arts & Life

Some Russian performing artists are speaking out against Putin

A number of Russian stars from the performing arts world are using their voices and international platforms to denounce the invasion of Ukraine and speak up against Russian President Vladimir Putin.

February 28, 2022
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  • Anastasia Tsioulcas
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  • Performing Arts

Jennifer Hudson wins top honor at 53rd NAACP Image Awards

Hudson wins entertainer of the year at the 53rd annual NAACP Image Awards honoring work by entertainers of color, beating out Regina King, Lil Nas X, Megan Thee Stallion and Tiffany Haddish.

February 27, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Actor Zero Mostel, center, who portrays Tevye in the musical "Fiddler on the Roof," poses backstage with cast members after the play's opening performance at the Imperial Theatre in New York on Sept. 22, 1964. Maria Karnilova, who plays Tevye's wife, Golde, is at far left. Playing Tevye's daughters, from left, are, Tanya Everett, as Chava; Julia Migenes, as Hodel; and Joanna Merlin, as Tzeitel.

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  • Theater

If Russia's invasion of Ukraine feels familiar, look to Broadway in the '60s

Why should Americans care about Ukraine? An answer from 1960s Broadway.

February 26, 2022
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
Buster Keaton in a promotional still for 'The Cameraman', which came out in 1928.

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  • Books

Two new books revisit the legacy of silent film comic Buster Keaton

Two new books about a legendary silent film comic — Dana Stevens' Camera Man and James Curtis' Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life — give fans new reason to revisit Keaton's work.

February 21, 2022
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
Tenor Curtis Bannister sings the role of Stan in Beethoven's <em>Fidelio</em>, in a dress rehearsal.

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  • Music Features

Prison choirs sing in a reboot of Beethoven's opera about unjust incarceration

A New York City opera company created an updated version of Fidelio for the Black Lives Matter era. The performance features singers who are incarcerated in real life.

February 19, 2022
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By:
  • Anastasia Tsioulcas

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  • Opinion

For Valentine's Day, a few of our favorite love stories to read, watch and hear

Valentine's Day reminds us we can relearn and redefine what it means to love and be loved. So, we offer some books, songs, and movies about passion, devotion, and relationships to take on the journey.

February 14, 2022
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By:
  • Miranda Mazariegos
Tariq Trotter portrays a scientist who has invented a machine that can turn Black people white in the off-Broadway musical <em>Black No More</em>.

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  • Theater

A machine turns Black people white in the musical 'Black No More'

An off-Broadway show, based on a 1931 novel, explores the results when a scientist charges Black people $50 each to change their race with his new invention.

February 14, 2022
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden

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  • Arts & Life

Yana Buhrer Tavanier: Can social activism be playful?

We might think of activism as far from playful. That's not the case for "playtivist" Yana Buhrer Tavanier. Her incubator lab, Fine Acts, encourages whimsical solutions for social change.

February 11, 2022
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  • Manoush Zomorodi,
  • Fiona Geiran,
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