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The villainous King Richard III will be played by a woman in Shakespeare in the Park

9:06am July 10, 2022

by Jeff Lunden

Casting a female actor in the lead role of "Richard III" is just one twist New York's Shakespeare in the Park has given the classic this summer.

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Break dancer Sunny Choi competes at the World Games, and hopes for the 2024 Olympics

8:50am July 09, 2022

by Kyra Miles

Sunny Choi is a New York corporate professional by day and a top-ranked, back-spinning, floor-flipping B-girl off the clock. She competes later today at the World Games in Birmingham, Al.

British director Peter Brook smiles after receiving the 2008 Ibsen Award for bringing new artistic dimensions to the world of theater.

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Influential theater director Peter Brook dies at 97

4:32pm July 04, 2022

by Bob Mondello

Brook's work ranged from classical star-studded productions to radical experiments in theater. He reinvented King Lear and explored the fragility of civilization in the film Lord of the Flies.

Students at Amor de Dios Flamenco Center practice for their upcoming showcase.

At Madrid's Amor de Dios flamenco center, dancers are finding their rhythm again

8:14am July 04, 2022

The pandemic placed competitive flamenco dancing on pause in Madrid. Now the passion and the intimacy of the artform are back on stage.

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Chris Herbie Holland (L.) as Tio and Marcel Spears as Juicy in Fat Ham at New York's Public Theater.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'Fat Ham' takes 'Hamlet' in unexpected directions

5:00am July 02, 2022

by Jennifer Vanasco

James Ijames' adaptation of Shakespeare's play is less a tragedy than a triumphant comedy.

Vijay Gupta performing with some of the professional musicians in Street Symphony at the Midnight Mission on LA's Skid Row.

Street Symphony plays in harmony with Skid Row's 'sacred spaces'

1:09pm June 27, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

Vijay Gupta was a 19-year-old violin prodigy when he joined the LA Philharmonic. Now he runs Street Symphony, an organization bringing music to clinics, jails and homeless shelters on Skid Row.

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

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

4:00pm June 20, 2022

by Bob Mondello

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.