Performing Arts

The comedian Brian Regan, pictured here in his Netflix special Nunchucks and Flamethrowers, has earned a reputation as a comic's comic.

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Comedian Brian Regan Sees The Dinosaurs In Everyday Life

9:50am April 26, 2019

by Elizabeth Blair

He's a favorite of other comics — a physical, observational and airtight performer who works "clean." All that helps explain why families make up a good portion of his massive audience.

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Playwright Mark Medoff author of Children of a Lesser God, in New York in April 2004.

Tony-Award Winning Playwright Mark Medoff Dies At Age 79

11:12pm April 24, 2019

by Richard Gonzales

Medoff is best known for Children of a Lesser God, a play about a young deaf woman's romance with her speech teacher.

Glenda Jackson plays the title role in Shakespeare's King Lear on Broadway. Jackson still gets nervous after decades on stage because she knows how "easy it is to act really badly, and how very, very hard it is to act well."

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Glenda Jackson On Playing King Lear: Gender Barriers 'Crack' With Age

1:49pm April 23, 2019

by Terry Gross

The 82-year-old British actor is currently playing Shakespeare's famed tragic figure on Broadway. "Doors have opened for women that were firmly locked many decades ago," she says.

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L-R: Dancers Reid Bartelme, David Norsworthy and Sara Mearns perform in the Merce Cunningham centennial tribute Night of 100 Solos at Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York. The staging of the event often saw multiple dancers performing independent solo ro

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100 Dances For 100 Years Of Merce Cunningham

7:13am April 20, 2019

by Jeff Lunden

To celebrate the centennial of the modern-dance pioneer's birth, dancers at theaters in London, New York and Los Angeles performed a total of 100 solos that the master choreographed.

The 2019 Pulitzer Prizes are getting handed out Monday.

WATCH LIVE: Pulitzer Prizes Name A New Crop Of Winners For 2019

8:34pm April 15, 2019

by Colin Dwyer

Prize Administrator Dana Canedy is stepping behind the lectern Monday to deliver good news to distinguished journalists, authors, musicians, scholars and others ranging across 21 categories.

Watch The Throne(s)

4:29pm April 15, 2019

The eighth and final season of Game of Thrones starts on April 14.

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Playwright Suzan-Lori Parks Handles Heavy Themes In Racial Drama 'White Noise'

6:48pm April 14, 2019

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks is back with a new controversial play that centers on a group of four interracial friends who get caught up in a contract that gets out of hand.

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Viral Stars, The 'Syncopated Ladies,' Shake Up Tap Dancing

5:34pm April 13, 2019

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with tap dancer Chloe Arnold, of the Syncopated Ladies, about their viral dance videos and annual tap festival.

Students perform in Granite Bay High School's original production of Ranked.

A Dystopian High School Musical Foresaw The College Admissions Scandal

1:55pm April 12, 2019

by Elissa Nadworny

A California high school is staging an original musical called Ranked, set in a world where class rank means everything, and some parents are willing to pay for their student to get a better spot.

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Michelle Williams gives it her all as Gwen Verdon in Fosse/Verdon.

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'Fosse/Verdon' Wiggles And Kicks, But Fails To Satisfy

5:01am April 09, 2019

by Linda Holmes

The FX series is deeply interested in Bob Fosse as an awful genius, but much less invested in Gwen Verdon as an overlooked collaborator.