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Olga Neuwirth's bold gender-bending opera has won the Grawemeyer Award

10:20am December 06, 2021

by Steve Smith

Neuwirth, an Austrian composer and multimedia artist known for works of elemental power, was honored for her opera 'Orlando,' produced by the Vienna State Opera in 2019.

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President Biden and the first lady attend the Kennedy Center Honors

6:53am December 06, 2021

by Elizabeth Blair

Bette Midler, Berry Gordy, Joni Mitchell, Lorne Michaels and Justino Diaz were awarded the Kennedy Center Honors at a gala in Washington, D.C. Sunday night. The show will be televised Dec. 22. on CBS.

Brandon Michael Hall, LaChanze and Chuck Cooper in Roundabout Theatre Company's Trouble in Mind.

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A prescient play about race in America has its long-overdue Broadway premiere

6:00am December 06, 2021

by Jeff Lunden

Playwright Alice Childress took an unflinching look at racism in society and in the theater with "Trouble in Mind" in 1955. Now in its overdue Broadway premiere, the play proves prescient and timely.

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Logan (Brian Cox) is still as amoral as ever.

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'Succession' recap, Season 3, Episode 8: Looking for poison, and finding it

10:10pm December 05, 2021

by Linda Holmes

Caroline's wedding brings her family to Tuscany, where Shiv faces ugly truths about herself, Kendall tries his best to unstick himself from his father, and the GoJo deal teeters.

Sex Cult Nun: Breaking Away from the Children of God, a Wild, Radical Religious Cult, by Faith Jones

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Granddaughter of cult leader tells her story of escape in 'Sex Cult Nun'

3:41pm December 05, 2021

by Ilana Masad

Faith Jones, a successful lawyer, is the granddaughter of David Berg, founder of The Family. She tells of how she was raised in the cult from infancy until managing to leave it in her early 20s.

This 1775 revolutionary-era rifle was Thomas Gavin's undoing.

Thomas Gavin might be America's most prolific artifact thief — but the jig is up

1:23pm December 05, 2021

Thomas Gavin went on a tear in the '60s and '70s, hitting nearly a dozen museums on the East Coast. He mostly stole antique firearms and stashed them in his hideout — a barn in rural Pennsylvania.

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NFT art craze hits Miami Art Basel

5:14pm December 04, 2021

NPR's David Folkenflik talks to arts journalist Sophie Haigney about the popularity of NFT art at Art Basel in Miami this year.

Julieta Salvo (left) and Claudia Cornejo only knew each other online before meeting for the first time at the concert. Salvo, originally from Argentina, currently lives in South Korea while Cornejo, originally from Mexico, lives in Michigan.

BTS returns to the stage reuniting their ARMY of fans after a 2-year hiatus

11:18am December 04, 2021

by Hannah Yoon

Fans from across the country and the world came to see the Korean boy band perform in Los Angeles for their first live concert in two years. Photographer Hannah Yoon documented fans before the show.

Audra McDonald performs at Lincoln Center in New York City on April 26, 2017.

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'Wait Wait' for Dec. 4, 2021: With Not My Job guest Audra McDonald

9:52am December 04, 2021

Emmy, Grammy and six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald is a legend of both stage and screen. We'll see if she can add one more award to her shelf by answering three questions about Burger King.

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An interview 21 months delayed: Patti LuPone talks 'Company' back on Broadway

9:46am December 04, 2021

by Scott Simon

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Patti LuPone, one of the stars of the revival of Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical "Company" on Broadway.

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