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Veterans Voices Multitracked, Overdubbed, Amplified Through An Actor

8:16am November 11, 2014

by Quil Lawrence

A new multimedia stage production, led by a Juilliard composer and an Iraq veteran who took up acting, hopes to help struggling soldiers battle post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Adam Driver starred in Tracks, This Is Where I Leave You and What If — all out this year. He says there are surprising similarities between two of his other biggest roles, on HBO's Girls and in the new Star Wars film. "If you think about breaking it dow

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Actor's Calendar: 'Girls,' 'Star Wars,' Taking Theater To The Military

6:24pm November 01, 2014

by NPR Staff

Adam Driver is famous for his role in HBO's Girls and his major (and mysterious) part in the next Star Wars film. Less famous: The former Marine's nonprofit organization, Arts in the Armed Forces.

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Look, Mom, I Finally Made It To Broadway!

12:56pm October 22, 2014

by Michel Martin

NPR's Michel Martin will sit down with a panel of award-winning playwrights to ask about diversity in theater. Follow here or join us on Twitter on Friday at 7 p.m. ET, using #NPRMichel.

Edgar Degas' Little Dancer Aged Fourteen is on display at the National Gallery of Art until Jan. 11.

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'Little Dancer' Musical Imagines The Story Behind Degas' Mysterious Muse

11:31am October 20, 2014

by Susan Stamberg

Ballerina Marie Van Goethem started modeling for Edgar Degas around 1878 and inspired his statue Little Dancer Aged Fourteen. But history lost track of her after she left the Paris Opera.

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Neil Patrick Harris has hosted the Tony Awards four times.

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What's It Like To Be Neil Patrick Harris? He Gives You Options

1:01pm October 14, 2014

The actor says he's been able to do a lot of different things in his life, including his role as Doogie Howser. So when he sat down to write a memoir, he made it a "Choose Your Own Adventure."

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Young Mike (Joseph Carlson) antagonizes Mike (Michael Patrick Thornton) during a physical therapy session with Jerry (James Whalen).

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Play, Ball: A Theatrical Look At The 'Beauty And Brutality' Of Football

10:15am October 10, 2014

by Elizabeth Blair

In the new play Colossal, a former football player, paralyzed after taking a bad hit during a game, reflects on his glory days and his struggles as a gay man in the macho culture of football.

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'This Impromptu Dance': Geoffrey Holder's Son Tells One More Story

11:52am October 09, 2014

by Leo Holder

Dancer, choreographer, director, actor and painter Geoffrey Holder died Sunday. His son, Leo, writes about the remarkable last night he spent with his father.

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Broadway Veteran Marian Seldes Dies At 86

1:52pm October 08, 2014

by JeffLunden

Seldes was a distinctive presence on Broadway performing in the works of Tennessee Williams, Samuel Beckett and Edward Albee among others. She won a Tony Award in 1965.

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Alex Sharp stars as 15-year-old Christopher in the theater adaptation of Mark Haddon's 2003 novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.

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The Unadaptable 'Curious Incident' Gets A Stage Adaptation

12:37pm October 07, 2014

by Jeff Lunden

Author Mark Haddon never imagined The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time would work as a play — he judged his writing by its unadaptability. But now it is one, and critics are loving it.

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Kathryn Hunter, Jared McNeill and Marcello Magni star in The Valley of Astonishment.

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Seeing Neurological Patients As Characters, Not Case Studies

1:51pm October 05, 2014

by Jeff Lunden

Legendary theater director Peter Brook is working on a new play centered on people with unusual conditions — like synesthesia, extraordinary memory or the inability to sense their own bodies.

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