Theater

What happens when a scrappy act of Off-Broadway performance artists grows into a national corporation with over 400 employees?

A diverse group of fifth graders learn the fine points of collaboration as they write, produce, and perform their own original opera. (Originally aired: January 27, 2001)

WNYC’s Sara Fishko investigates how the 1957 Broadway hit West Side Story explored dark, topical ideas, while backstage, the social and personal politics of its creators tied the historic musical to its time.

Kurt Andersen talks with actor, director, and playwright SimonMcBurney, director and star of the current play Mnemonic, about the intimate connections between art and memory in theater, architecture, poetry, and music. McBurney is the artistic director and co-founder of the London-based Theatre de Complicite. Over the last several years he and members of theater company […]