Performing Arts

Dancers from Miami City Ballet and Dance Theatre of Harlem perform the Pam Tanowitz work Gustave Le Gray No. 1, commissioned by the Kennedy Center as part of its Ballet Across America series.

Emergency Relief Package Provides For Tens Of Millions In Funds To Help The Arts

6:35pm March 26, 2020

by Elizabeth Blair

The package marks $75 million each for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities, $7.5 million for the Smithsonian, and $25 million for the Kennedy Center.

Marcel (Jesse Eisenberg) in the film Resistance.

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Marcel Marceau Walks Against The Winds Of War In 'Resistance'

5:00pm March 26, 2020

by Ella Taylor

Jesse Eisenberg stars as the famous mime as he gets involved in the French Resistance during World War II. The film is an "honorable, absorbing homage to the making of a man and his art."

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'Fresh Air' Remembers Broadway Playwright Terrence McNally

1:28pm March 26, 2020

by Terry Gross

McNally, who died March 24 due to complications related to COVID-19, won Tony awards for Love! Valour! Compassion!, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Ragtime and Master Class. Originally broadcast June 1993.

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Wanted: Stories With Happily Ever Afters - Here's Where To Start Looking

5:00am March 26, 2020

by Glen Weldon

In uncertain times, we want stories that reassure us that everything will be okay. Here are some books, films, plays and TV shows that believe in Happily Ever After.

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Honored Playwright Terrence McNally Dies Of Coronavirus At Age 81

6:24am March 25, 2020

by Jeff Lunden

McNally had suffered from lung cancer and pulmonary problems. He won his first Tony Award for Kiss of the Spider Woman. He also won Tonys for Love! Valor! Compassion!, Master Class and Ragtime.

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A portrait of playwright Terrence McNally, taken in his home in New York City on March 2. McNally died of complications related to coronavirus on Tuesday.

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Terrence McNally, Honored American Playwright, Has Died Of Coronavirus

11:33pm March 24, 2020

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The five-time Tony Award winner whose work spanned some four dozen plays and musicals died Tuesday at age 81 due to complications related to COVID-19.

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Playwright Terrence McNally Dies Of COVID-19 Complications At 81

4:36pm March 24, 2020

by Jeff Lunden

The revered playwright Terrence McNally, who wrote Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune and Ragtime, has died from COVID-19. McNally was 81 and had suffered from lung cancer and pulmonary problems.

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With Concert Canceled, California Students Perform Together From Home

9:17am March 23, 2020

by Lulu Garcia-Navarro

The Chino Hills High School Chamber Singers aren't letting social distancing stop them from harmonizing. With their concert canceled, all 19 sang "Over the Rainbow" into their computers, together.

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Coach Elie Rwirangira conducts a basketball lesson through a live-streaming session at YBDL Campus in Shanghai, China on March 12. Many people and companies are providing free online classes to stay fit.

Getting Bored? Here's A List Of Free Things That Weren't Free Before Coronavirus

2:25pm March 20, 2020

by Brakkton Booker

From Broadway plays to playwrights giving writing lessons to online courses from Ivy League schools, here's a look at some things (but not everything!) that have suddenly become free.

On Thursday afternoon, New York's Metropolitan Opera announced it was canceling all performances through the end of its 2019-20 season, which was to run through May 9.

The Metropolitan Opera Tells Its Union Employees They Will Not Be Paid After March 31

2:40pm March 19, 2020

by Anastasia Tsioulcas

The nation's largest performing arts organization has told its orchestral players, chorus and stagehands they will not be paid after March 31. The company has canceled the rest of its season.