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News Articles: Performing Arts

Women rehearse inside Radio City Music Hall before the Rockettes open auditions, on April 22, 2025.

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  • Arts & Life

Times have changed — but the Rockettes keep kicking

Nearly 1,000 women from around the country flew to New York City to audition for the dance troupe on its 100th anniversary. What's helped it last so long?

May 05, 2025
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco
Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond in <em>Sunset Blvd</em>.

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  • Performing Arts

2025 Tony nominations are out — and they're full of celebrities

Broadway isn't just back — it's raising the bar. Buena Vista Social Club, Death Becomes Her and Maybe Happy Ending tied for most nominations. Plus, nods to George Clooney, Nicole Scherzinger and more.

May 01, 2025
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By:
  • Jennifer Vanasco
Philippa Hughes attends "Looking For America," a  series of dinners and art exhibitions, at the El Paso Museum of History in 2019.

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  • Arts & Life

The Vietnam War tore her family apart. She's bringing people together.

Philippa Hughes' life spans war, international romance, divorce, an abduction, art and politics. As one of the few liberals in her family, she knows how divisions can break a family and a country.

April 29, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Left to right: Alana Arenas (Morgan), Kara Young (Aziza), Harry Lennix (Solomon), LaTanya Richardson Jackson (Claudine), Glenn Davis (Junior) and Jon Michael Hill (Naz) perform in a Broadway production of the play <em>Purpose</em>, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and directed by Phylicia Rashad.

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  • Theater

A civil rights leader's family airs its dirty laundry on Broadway in 'Purpose'

"Purpose" by playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, now on Broadway under the direction of longtime actress Phylicia Rashad, explores the generational conflicts in the civil rights movement.

April 01, 2025
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By:
  • Michel Martin and
  • Olivia Hampton
The Kennedy Center in Washington DC laid off its social impact team on Tuesday — the latest in a wave of dramatic changes at the national performing arts institution.

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  • Performing Arts

Kennedy Center lays off Social Impact employees

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., has dissolved its Social Impact division, which partnered with local organizations to bring in diverse artists and audiences.

March 26, 2025
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
Conan O'Brien at the 97th Oscars held at the Dolby Theatre on March 2, 2025 in Hollywood, California.

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  • Arts & Life

Comedians will celebrate Conan O'Brien at the Kennedy Center on Sunday. Will they take on Trump?

Conan O'Brien will receive one of the most coveted awards in comedy on Sunday — but the annual event takes place at a tense time for the Kennedy Center.

March 21, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
In February, President Trump broke tradition when he dismissed Kennedy Center leadership and appointed a new Board of Trustees.

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  • Arts & Life

During tour, Trump declares the Kennedy Center is in "tremendous disrepair"

President Trump toured the Kennedy Center today and presided over its board meeting. He expressed deep dissatisfaction with the current state of the performing arts center.

March 17, 2025
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By:
  • Isabella Gomez Sarmiento
John Kani in <em>Kunene and the King </em>at Shakespeare Theatre Company.

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  • Arts & Life

John Kani risked his life to tell stories of apartheid — at 81, he's still at it

The South African actor has been speaking out about racial injustice for decades, often in collaboration with the late playwright Athol Fugard. Kunene and the King is Kani's latest project.

March 17, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Jasmine Amy Rogers takes a bow as Betty Boop in <em>BOOP!</em> <em>The Musical</em> now on Broadway.

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  • Theater

This Betty Boop is Broadway's newest star

Jasmine Amy Rogers is starring in her first Broadway musical. Eight years ago, NPR talked with her when she was still in high school.

March 16, 2025
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
In 2012, playwright Athol Fugard, who was then 80, <a href="https://www.npr.org/2012/08/02/157732975/playwright-fugard-bucked-south-africas-racist-ideas"target="_blank"   >said,</a> "I have a greater sense of adventure at this moment in my life than I ever had in the past." Fugard is pictured above in February 1985.

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  • Obituaries

Playwright Athol Fugard, who chronicled apartheid and its aftermath, dies at 92

The celebrated South African playwright was known for Blood Knot, The Road to Mecca and "Master Harold"...and the Boys. He said his job was to make "leaps out of my reality and into other realities."

March 10, 2025
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By:
  • Jeff Lunden
Lin-Manuel Miranda and the cast of <em>Hamilton</em> perform at the Tony Awards in 2016. The show has garnered near-universal acclaim since its 2015 opening.

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  • Performing Arts

'Hamilton' cancels planned Kennedy Center performances

The hit musical joins a number of other productions and acts that have pulled out of appearances at the Kennedy Center since President Trump took over the storied venue last month.

March 06, 2025
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By:
  • Andrew Limbong
The Kennedy Center on Aug. 13, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

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  • Arts & Life

Kennedy Center evacuates due to bomb threat targeting Shen Yun

A spokesperson for the Kennedy Center says the threat targeted Shen Yun, a touring dance troupe that is banned in China, because it is associated with the religious group Falun Gong.

February 20, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Performers dance outside of the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., on Monday. The dance was part of a protest against new leadership by President Trump.

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  • Performing Arts

As Trump takes over leadership at Kennedy Center, some protest through dance

President Trump and his appointees are now solely in charge of the Kennedy Center. Performers protested by dancing.

February 18, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
Outgoing Savannah Music Festival executive director Gene Dobbs Bradford

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  • Arts & Life

Savannah Music Festival to look for new leader, as executive director announces summer resignation

Gene Dobbs Bradford plans to leave for St. Louis after three years in Savannah.

February 18, 2025
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By:
  • Benjamin Payne
Deborah Rutter, former president of the Kennedy Center, gives her first interview since the center's board voted to fire her and install President Trump as its new chair.

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  • Performing Arts

Former Kennedy Center president speaks out in first interview since her firing

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks to Deborah Rutter, former head of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, in her first interview since the board installed President Trump as its new chair.

February 17, 2025
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  • Mary Louise Kelly,
  • Ashley Brown,
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