Jodie Comer is coming to Broadway in the one-woman show, 'Prima Facie'
NPR's Juana Summers talks with actress Jodie Comer about the Broadway premiere of her play Prima Facie.
Theater
Josh Groban never gave up his dream of playing 'Sweeney Todd'
The Grammy-Award winning baritone first auditioned to play the Demon Barber of Fleet Street back in high school. He didn't get the part then; now he's starring in the Broadway production.
As 'Sweeney Todd' returns to Broadway, 4 Sweeneys dish about the difficult role
Josh Groban, Michael Cerveris, Norm Lewis and Len Cariou all agree: It's exhausting playing a murderous sociopath, while dealing with stage blood, a mechanical barber chair and singing complex music.
From elected official to 'Sweatshop Overlord,' this performer takes on unlikely roles
Kristina Wong is a Los Angeles-based satirical artist with a history of taking on surprising leadership positions in real life and on stage. Her latest solo show is Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord.
Actor Topol, who appeared in 'Fiddler on the Roof' hundreds of times, has died
Topol — the actor who went by a single name and who appeared on stage as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof hundreds of times — has died.
How bills restricting drag could impact high school theatre productions
More than a dozen states have proposed bills that would restrict minors' access to drag performances. So where does that leave high school theatre productions like Rent or nontraditional casting?
The theatrical curtain call is more than just bows
You're at the theater, the last scene ends, and the cast comes out for applause. It's pretty standard today. But curtain calls once were eccentric, revealing, funny and just plain effective.
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.
Audiences are asked to not sing out loud during the musical 'The Bodyguard'
Whitney Houston is known for the song "I Will Always Love You." King's theatre in Scotland asks audiences not to out-sing performers during the show, which is based on the film starring Houston.
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.