Jeff Lunden
Stories
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Arts & Life
Tony Award-winning playwright Christopher Durang has died
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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Arts & Life
An early boy band was world famous — until the Nazis took over
Long before The Backstreet Boys, a vocal sextet in Weimar Germany was silenced because three memebrs were Jewish. A new Broadway musical with a score by Barry Manilow tells their story.
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Arts & Life
'Phantom of the Opera' takes a final Broadway bow after 13,981 performances
On Sunday night the curtain will fall on the longest-running show in Broadway history: Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega hit ran for more than 35 years. "I got the gig of a lifetime," says one cast member.
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'Phantom of the Opera' takes a final Broadway bow after 13,981 performances
On Sunday night the curtain will fall on the longest-running show in Broadway history: Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega hit ran for more than 35 years. "I got the gig of a lifetime," says one cast member.
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National
Encore: Look out, Nets rivals! Octogenarian Mr. Whammy is coming for you
For every sports team, there are fans and there are super fans. For the Brooklyn Nets, that's 86-year-old Mr. Whammy — who tries to hex the opposing basketball team into missing their foul shots.
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Arts & Life
Angela Lansbury, a beloved star of the screen and stage, has died at 96
Lansbury's acting career extended over an extraordinary seven decades. She says she knew early on that she'd never be "groomed to be a glamorous movie star" and thus sought out nontraditional roles.
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Arts & Life
New Broadway play 'Leopoldstadt' looks at a large Jewish family in Vienna over a half century
Tom Stoppard's new play, "Leopoldstadt," grew from a midlife realization concerning how many of his relatives died in the Holocaust.
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Music
Where are the Black musicians in the country's largest orchestras?
In 2014, a study found that only 1.4% of orchestra musicians were Black. In 2022, it's hard to know if that number is better or worse.
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The Broadway community is celebrating another year of pandemic survival
It's been a year since Broadway started back up again - and there've been a lot of ups and downs. COVID still had the power to shut down shows, but performers and audiences persisted.
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Arts & Life
Theater stars spring to life on the pages of 'B is for Broadway'
A few years ago, a children's book called A is for Audra celebrated musical theater divas. Its creators have written a new book, B is for Broadway, celebrating theater from auditions to Ziegfeld.