Arts
'Who Does That?!' Broadway Stars React To Badly Behaved Audiences
The Internet erupted this week in protest over the outrageous behavior of New York theater audiences and their mobile devices. Tony Award-winner Patti LuPone is taking matters into her own hands.
In Palestine, A Child Of Violence Becomes A Music Educator
Children of the Stone tells the story of a rock-throwing Palestinian teen's journey to found a music school. NPR's Lynn Neary speaks with Ramzi Aburedwan and author Sandy Tolan.
She Was Groot: After A Galactic Hit, Marvel Screenwriter Tackles Comics
Nicole Perlman was the first woman to get a writing credit on a Marvel Studios movie, last year's Guardians of the Galaxy. Now, she's taking on a more earthly challenge: Writing her first comic book.
A Puzzle With A Northern Focus, Eh?
Today's puzzle involves wordplay on some well-known Canadian place names.
Fearing Her Mind's Decline, Patricia Marx Scrambles To Get 'Less Stupid'
The first woman to write for The Harvard Lampoon, now a New Yorker staffer, Marx still felt like she was getting forgetful with age. So, she put her head to work, doing every brain game she could.
Fresh Air Weekend: Weighing In On What It Means To 'Sound Gay'
In Do I Sound Gay?, director David Thorpe discusses the so-called "gay voice" and reveals his own attempt (with speech pathologist Susan Sankin) to sound "less gay." Originally broadcast July 7, 2015.
Fresh Air Weekend: Freeing Amy Winehouse From Her Tabloid Legacy
In the dawning of the digital age, "She was the unlucky one to be having a nervous breakdown in public at the time," Amy director Asif Kapadia tells Fresh Air. Originally broadcast July 8, 2015.
Roger Rees, Welsh-Born Stage, Screen And TV Actor, Dies At 71
American audiences came to know him as the star of the adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby on Broadway. He won a Tony Award in the title role.
Not My Job: Terry Gross Gets Quizzed On Terry Gene Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan)
We recorded the show in Philadelphia this week, which means that (for once!) we get to ask Fresh Air's Terry Gross the questions.