'Evan Hansen' Makes Music Out Of Teen Angst And Anxiety
A new musical by Tony-nominated songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Dear Evan Hansen is a comedic drama that deals with teen suicide in the age of social media.
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A Hip-Hop Soundtrack For A Musical About Alexander Hamilton? Sure, Why Not?
The new musical about the U.S.'s Founding Fathers — set to a mostly hip-hop score — that everyone's been talking about for months and months finally opens officially on Broadway Thursday night.
Metropolitan Opera To Drop Use Of Blackface-Style Makeup In 'Otello'
The Met says it is committed to "colorblind casting" and that its production of Otello this fall will be the first without dark makeup since the opera was first seen at the company in 1891.
The Play's The Thing — High School Productions Down The Decades
Bob Mondello looks at the most-produced shows at high schools through seven decades and ponders what the choices made by drama teachers tell us.
In Utah, 'Book Of Mormon' Strikes A Chord
The Tony Award-winning musical, The Book of Mormon, opened in Salt Lake City last week. The sendup of missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is getting a rousing reception.
Theodore Bikel, Who Starred In Broadway's 'Fiddler On The Roof,' Dies
The actor and singer, who recorded 37 albums, has died at 91. Bikel took over the role of Tevye for more than 2,000 performances of Fiddler on the Roof.
'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.
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.
Judicial Differences Take Center Stage In 'Scalia V. Ginsburg'
The opera Scalia/Ginsburg debuts this weekend at the Castleton Festival in Virginia. The story originally aired on July 10, 2013 on All Things Considered.
The Mornin' Ain't So Beautiful For This Dark 'Oklahoma!' Production
In upstate New York, an experimental staging of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic sets a key scene in total darkness and adds coldblooded murder to the plot.