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News Articles: Theater

After closing its doors November 2022, Tara theatre is under new ownership and on track to reopen.

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  • Arts & Life

The show goes on: Historic Tara theater set to reopen this spring

After closing its doors last November, Atlanta’s historic Tara theater is coming back. Now, the arthouse cinema is scheduled to reopen this spring.  

February 23, 2023
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By:
  • Amanda Andrews
The Tyler Perry Exhibit

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  • Arts & Life

There's a Tyler Perry experience you can only have in Macon

"It's Black History Month. It's The Harriet Tubman Museum, It makes sense." The entertainment mogul is honored with an exhibit in Macon.

February 21, 2023
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By:
  • Sonia Murray
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
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
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
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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  • 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
A scene from the New York production of <em>STOMP</em> featuring Desmond Howard and Emmanuel "Manny" Scott at the Orpheum Theatre.

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  • Arts & Life

STOMP closes after 29-year New York run

The internationally-renowned show exploring the percussive possibilities of the human body and everyday objects ends Jan. 8.

January 07, 2023
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  • Chloe Veltman
<em>Prima Facie,</em> by Suzie Miller, was a hit in London last year and now is coming to Broadway.

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  • Theater

Here are nine NYC shows we can't wait to see this spring

You never know what'll hit or miss — but you can look at who wrote the script and score, and who's directing and starring. Here's what Jeff Lunden is keeping his eye on, both on and off-Broadway.

January 02, 2023
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  • Jeff Lunden
A rare recording of <em>Phinney's Rainbow — </em>thought to be the first produced musical of Stephen Sondheim (shown here as a wizened showbiz veteran of 32, with three Broadway musicals under his belt) — has been found on a bookshelf in Milwaukee.

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  • Theater

A rare recording of a musical by an 18-year-old Stephen Sondheim surfaces

Broadway-legend-in-training Stephen Sondheim was a college sophomore in 1948 when his musical Phinney's Rainbow was produced — and recorded — at Williams College in Massachusetts.

December 02, 2022
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
<em>The Wiz</em> is just one of the shows celebrated in the new Museum of Broadway.

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  • Arts & Life

The Museum of Broadway reveals the show behind the show

A new museum celebrating the history of Broadway is now in New York's theater district.

November 26, 2022
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  • Jeff Lunden
Suzan-Lori Parks (right), and the cast of <em>Plays for the Plague Year</em>. Parks, a prolific playwright, is doing something new with this play — she's acting.

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  • Theater

For playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, theater doesn't just reflect reality – it creates it

With a revival of her Pulitzer-winning play Topdog/Underdog on Broadway, and her new show about COVID off-Broadway, the acclaimed playwright is still learning new things about herself.

November 25, 2022
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
Kevin Woo and the cast of KPOP

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  • Theater

Korean pop star Luna comes to Broadway in 'KPOP'

The South Korean cultural phenomenon is now a new musical, starring actual K-pop idols.

November 21, 2022
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
GPB News NPR

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  • Theater

Yiddish 'Fiddler On The Roof' is a dream come true for its lead actor

The Yiddish language production of the musical is back. Steven Skybell, who plays Tevye, and Joel Grey, who directed the original, explain the musical's resonance. Originally broadcast July 10, 2019.

November 18, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
GPB News NPR

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  • Author Interviews

Billy Porter makes peace with himself: 'I set myself free, honey. No more secrets'

Porter won an Emmy for Pose, and a Tony for the Broadway musical Kinky Boots. In addition to performing, he's also a star on the red carpet. His memoir is Unprotected. Originally broadcast in 2021.

November 04, 2022
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  • Terry Gross
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