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News Articles: Theater

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  • Arts & Life

Robert Kalfin, director and producer of innovative theater, dies at 89

Kalfin co-founded the Chelsea Theater Center, which was known for provocative off-Broadway shows.

October 11, 2022
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
Bridgette Burton (left) Stephanie Ybarra and Rachael Erichsen all work at Baltimore Center Stage.

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  • Theater

Working in theater is a grind. But it doesn't have to be

The hours are long and the pay isn't great. But one theater in Baltimore is trying to rethink its labor practices to make theater a better workplace.

October 05, 2022
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
Playwright Charles Fuller, shown here in 1982, died of natural causes on Monday. He was 83.

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  • Obituaries

Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Charles Fuller dies at 83

Fuller often explored and exposed how social institutions can perpetuate racism, like he did in his best-known work, the searing and acclaimed "A Soldier's Play."

October 04, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Nataki Garrett stands inside the Allen Elizabethan Theatre in Ashland, Ore. She recently programmed her first full season but not everyone has embraced her new approach.

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  • Arts & Life

Oregon Shakespeare Festival focuses on expansion – but is not without its critics

After two years of pandemic closures, audiences are back at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, to find a season of diverse plays. But for many, change has come too soon.

September 28, 2022
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By:
  • Bilal Qureshi
Mark Mobley performs in "Friend of the Groom" as part of Macon Pride Week 2022.

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  • Arts & Life

Macon Pride event features tale of a wedding disaster

This year, for the first time, Macon Pride features a bit of theater, a performance of "Friend of the Groom." It's the story of a wedding between a gay white man and a Japanese woman who needs to marry an American to stay in the U.S. What is supposed to be a small wedding turns into an elaborate event. Starring in this one man performance is Mark Mobley, a writer and director of marketing and communications at the University of Georgia Performing Arts Center. Mobley spoke with GPB's Peter Biello.

September 28, 2022
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  • Peter Biello
To mark the 75th anniversary of this uniquely American cultural movement, NPR is traveling across the country for a look forward in our series <a href="https://www.npr.org/series/1124305446/the-next-stage">"The Next Stage."</a>

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  • Arts & Life

Across the U.S., regional theaters are starting to transform. Here's why

In the first of our six-part series, NPR's Bob Mondello explains how the theater that most Americans see is being transformed.

September 21, 2022
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  • Bob Mondello
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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  • 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

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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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  • 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
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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  • Jeff Lunden
Justin Neil is the new manager at Theatre Albany.

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  • Arts & Life

Theatre Albany hires new manager — its first in five years

The 89-year-old Theatre Albany, a Southwest Georgia landmark, is getting a new manager and a new direction.

August 05, 2022
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By:
  • Orlando Montoya
GPB News NPR

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  • Law

The Netflix v. 'Unofficial Bridgerton Musical' lawsuit, explained

Netflix is suing Abigail Barlow and Emily Bear, who wrote the Grammy-winning Unofficial Bridgerton Musical, for infringement of intellectual property rights of the streaming service's hit show.

August 04, 2022
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By:
  • Deanna Schwartz
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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  • Elizabeth Kramer
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