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News Articles: Theater

Julie Andrews sang "The hills are alive" in the film version of <em>The Sound of Music</em>, but Hammerstein's letters reveal that a much bigger Hollywood star had lobbied hard to play Maria.

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Oh, what a beautiful archive: Oscar Hammerstein's letters reveal his many sides

A thousand pages of correspondence by Oscar Hammerstein II, the lyricist for such musicals as Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel and The Sound of Music are available to a wide public for the first time.

June 20, 2022
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  • Bob Mondello
Julie Andrews sang "The hills are alive" in the film version of <em>The Sound of Music</em>, but Hammerstein's letters reveal that a much bigger Hollywood star had lobbied hard to play Maria.

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  • Books

Oh, what a beautiful archive: Oscar Hammerstein's letters reveal his many sides

A thousand pages of correspondence by Oscar Hammerstein II, the lyricist for such musicals as Show Boat, Oklahoma!, Carousel and The Sound of Music are available to a wide public for the first time.

June 20, 2022
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By:
  • Bob Mondello
Patti LuPone (l) won a Tony for her performance in <em>Company</em>. She's here with star Katrina Lenk

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  • Arts & Life

The 2022 Tony Award winners

The 75th Annual Tony Awards celebrated Broadway's first full season after the pandemic shutdown. Here is a list of the nominees and winners.

June 13, 2022
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  • Jennifer Vanasco
Jaquel Spivey (center) stars as Usher in <em>A Strange Loop</em>, which was named Best Musical at the 2022 Tony Awards.

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  • Arts & Life

6 Takeaways from the 2022 Tony Awards

Ariana DeBose should host everything. Jennifer Hudson makes history. And we should all celebrate understudies.

June 13, 2022
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  • Jennifer Vanasco
Jaquel Spivey (center) stars as Usher in <em>A Strange Loop</em>, which was named Best Musical at the 2022 Tony Awards.

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  • Arts & Life

6 Takeaways from the 2022 Tony Awards

Ariana DeBose should host everything. Jennifer Hudson makes history. And we should all celebrate understudies.

June 13, 2022
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco
James Jackson, Jr., L. Morgan Lee, Antwayn Hopper, John-Andrew Morrison and Jason Veasey play the self-lacerating thoughts of Usher (Jaquel Spivey) in <em>A Strange Loop.</em>

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  • Race

How 'A Strange Loop' fits into Black theater legacies

The musical — which is up for 11 Tony Awards this Sunday — subverts and reimagines decades of Black theater and pop culture.

June 11, 2022
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  • Nathan Pugh
<em>When Black Boys Die</em>,<em> </em>a gunplay written and directed by William Electric Black.

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  • Performing Arts

How the arts can help children think about gun violence

The former Sesame Street writer is working with the NYPD to create a small pilot program on gun violence at an elementary school in East Harlem.

June 07, 2022
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By:
  • Jon Kalish
Marjan Neshat (in white dress), Roxanna Hope Radja (behind couch), Nikki Massoud and Artemis Pebdani in <em>Wish You Were Here</em>.

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  • Arts & Life

Iranian-American playwright is set on breaking expectations

Sanaz Toossi is having a moment – her first production ever, English, just won a Lucille Lortel award for outstanding new off-Broadway play, and Wish You Were Here opened last week.

May 13, 2022
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  • Jeff Lunden
GPB News NPR

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  • Theater

Anthony Roth Costanzo nearly lost his voice to cancer. Now he's back as 'Akhnaten'

A decade ago, Costanzo had surgery that threatened to destroy his singing voice. Now he stars as a gender-fluid Egyptian pharaoh in the Met Opera's production. Originally broadcast Oct. 7, 2019.

May 13, 2022
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By:
  • Terry Gross
(l) Jason Veasey, James Jackson, Jr., Jaquel Spivey, L Morgan Lee and Antwayn Hopper in "A Strange Loop."

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  • Arts & Life

'A Strange Loop' garners 11 Tony nominations, including Best Musical

These nominations are for Broadway's first season after the 2020 COVID shutdown.

May 10, 2022
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  • Jeff Lunden

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  • Arts & Life

2022 Pulitzer Prizes in arts and letters go to 'Fat Ham' and 'The Netenyahus'

The 2022 Pulitzer Prizes in fiction, poetry, drama and other categories in arts and letters were announced in New York along with awards for journalism.

May 09, 2022
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  • Neda Ulaby
"A Strange Loop" won 11 Tony nominations, the most this year.

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  • Arts & Life

List of the 2022 Tony Nominations

The American Theatre Wing announced nominations today for the 75th annual awards.

May 09, 2022
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  • Jennifer Vanasco
Study of the 1931 Josephine Baker poster by Jean Chassaing.

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  • Arts & Life

Photos: The Golden Age of Broadway is celebrated in a new online exhibit

A new virtual art exhibition celebrates theater, movies and television with original sketches by Broadway set and costume designers.

May 07, 2022
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  • Jeff Lunden
GPB News NPR

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  • Obituaries

At a high school, the song 'No One is Alone' becomes about a teacher lost to COVID

English teacher Bobby Texel remembers his coworker Dennis DeCarlo, a woodshop teacher at Pompton Lakes High School in New Jersey. Dennis and Bobby worked together for years on the school's musicals.

May 06, 2022
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By:
  • Elena Burnett and
  • Sarah Handel
The seven actresses in POTUS, now on Broadway. Julie White (left, top), Lilli Cooper, Rachel Dratch, Vanessa Williams, Lea DeLaria, Julianne Hough (front left), Suzy Nakamura

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  • Arts & Life

Broadway's 'POTUS': Should these women save the president?

Seven comic actresses star in a new play by a 28-year-old up-and-coming playwright.

April 27, 2022
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  • Jeff Lunden
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