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Playwright Paula Vogel is known not just for her work on Broadway — but for the generations of famous playwrights whose careers she has nurtured. Above, Jessica Lange in Paula Vogel's Mother Play.

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In honor of Mother's Day, here's 'Mother Play' — which gestated for 40 years

5:01am May 12, 2024

by Jeff Lunden

Playwright Paula Vogel is known not just for her work on Broadway — but for the generations of famous playwrights whose careers she has nurtured. Mother Play is about her own mother.

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<em>Hell's Kitchen</em> is one of the Tony Award nominees for Best Musical.

'Hell's Kitchen' and 'Stereophonic' lead Tony Awards with 13 nominations each

8:59am April 30, 2024

by Jennifer Vanasco

It was a crowded Tony Award season this year, with 36 eligible musicals and plays opening on Broadway stages.

Lara Downes speaks with Brian Stokes Mitchell on November 11, 2023.

Moments of Enlightenment with Broadway's Brian Stokes Mitchell

5:00am April 25, 2024

by Lara Downes

The acclaimed singer and actor explains how the arts have that rare ability to change minds, give hope and connect people.

'The Crown' creator Peter Morgan tackles Putin's Rise to Power in new play 'Patriots'

6:52pm April 23, 2024

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with playwright Peter Morgan about his Broadway production of "Patriots," a play about the rise of Russian oligarchs, Vladimir Putin, and the downfall of the USSR.

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'Cabaret' comes back to Broadway starring Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin

8:18am April 20, 2024

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Eddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin, who star in the new Broadway revival of "Cabaret."

To help the group feel like a band, Will Butler had them open for him in Brooklyn.

A new play peers into a band's life, from the inside

4:49pm April 19, 2024

by Jeff Lunden

Stereophonic, a new play on Broadway with music by Arcade Fire's Will Butler, tracks the volatile creation of a rock and roll album over the course of a year in the 1970s.

Amber Iman and Eden Espinosa in <em>Lempicka</em>.

'Lempicka' showcases a little-known queer artist's dazzling life

12:00pm April 13, 2024

by Jeff Lunden

Once the toast of 1920s Paris, Tamara de Lempicka's story is now on Broadway. She was a modernist art deco artist who's better known in Europe than in the U.S.

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Activists from Extinction Rebellion, left and center, protest during a performance of An Enemy of the People on Broadway, starring Jeremy Strong, right.

'We want to help': Why climate activists are trying something new

5:12am April 05, 2024

by Chloe Veltman

A recent disruption at An Enemy of the People on Broadway by Extinction Rebellion shows a new approach to climate change activism.

Tony Award-winning playwright Christopher Durang has died

5:47pm April 03, 2024

by Jeff Lunden

American playwright Christopher Durang has died at 75. He won a Tony Award for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with "Miss Witherspoon."

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Tony-winning playwright Christopher Durang dies at 75

12:01pm April 03, 2024

by The Associated Press

Durang was a master of satire and black comedy who won a Tony Award for "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike" and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist with "Miss Witherspoon."