Harvard's Hasty Pudding Club Considers Adding 1st Female Performers
Women auditioned for the Harvard musical theater group, Hasty Pudding, this weekend, which has never had a female member in the troop.
Performing Arts
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Playwright Frank D. Gilroy Dies At 89
Gilroy also won a Tony Award and a Drama Critic's Circle Award for The Subject Was Roses, a play about a World War II veteran returning home from war. He died Saturday.
For Penn & Teller's Magical Partnership, The Trick Is Telling The Truth
The duo are are back on Broadway. They both talk — yes, even Teller — with NPR's Scott Simon about magic, danger and the remarkable endurance of their 40-year partnership.
Larry David's First Time On Broadway: 'It's Not So Easy!'
The comedian wrote and stars in Fish in the Dark, a play about rivalries and dysfunction when a family patriarch dies. Originally broadcast March 5, 2015.
Phoenix Students Restore School To Reclaim Native American Identity
A century-long government assimilation program boarded children from their tribes. Now some former students are turning their old school into a Native American cultural center to play their own music.
Ballet Programs Look For More Boys To Step Up To The Barre
It takes two to dance a pas de deux, but demand for the male half of the duex far outstrips supply. Many schools and ballet programs offer special classes and steep discounts to male students.
Ballet Dancer Dies In London Motorbike Accident
38-year-old British dancer Jonathan Ollivier was killed on Sunday, hours before a scheduled performance.
At Farm To Ballet, Watch Vermont's Cows And Tomatoes Do Arabesques
A dance troupe is performing the story of a Vermont farm from spring to fall, told through reinterpretations of classical choreography.
'Waitress' Serves Dark, Funny Fare With A Musical Twist (And A Side Of Pie)
The musical was adapted from a 2007 indie film starring Keri Russell. It follows a diner waitress who pours her churning emotions about her abusive marriage into creatively named pies.
Lesbian Cartoonist Alison Bechdel Countered Dad's Secrecy By Being Out And Open
The musical and graphic novel Fun Home describe Bechdel's coming out, and her dad's closeted homosexuality. She says, "In many ways ... my professional career has been a reaction to my father's life."