459 stories by "Jeff Lunden"
The Savannah Bananas began when one couple emptied their bank accounts for a dream: to add joy, fun and ultimately singing and dancing to baseball. 11 years later, it's an entertainment jugg…
Conductor, composer and educator Michael Tilson Thomas, who led the San Francisco Symphony for 25 years, establishing its reputation as a world-class orchestra, died Wednesday. He was 81.
The Apple TV series Schmigadoon is now a hit on Broadway.
"TitanÃque," a musical parody of the James Cameron film using Céline Dion's songs, opened Sunday on Broadway after getting its unlikely start in a tiny off-Broadway basement theate…
The District of Columbia's Tidal Basin cherry blossoms attract a quarter million visitors annually but there are more cherry trees in a park in Newark, N.J.
While commuters race through New York's Moynihan Station, dancers rehearse all down the corridor before they film their performances for social media.
Model railroaders convene each year to celebrate their hobby. But this year they're wondering about the impact of tariffs on the foreign companies that make a lot of the products they collec…
The Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winner is trying something new " instead of a musical for Broadway, he's written an opera, now playing in Philadelphia.
Three women in their 90s are performing right now on New York stages, sometimes as often as eight performances a week.
A new, two-person musical is a romantic comedy for our generation.
Almost eight years after Harry Potter and the Cursed Child opened on Broadway, Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy in the films, is now playing him as an adult onstage.
With its mix of Jewish immigrants, Black residents of Harlem, and privileged white characters, the Broadway show Ragtime is resonating strongly with audiences in the current political climat…
When Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera closed on Broadway in April of 2023, after 35 years, it was the end of an era. But a new immersive version of the show " think of it a…
Fans of "La traviata," "Aida," and "Otello" creator Giuseppe Verdi met at his statue in New York City Friday to mark 212 years since his birth.
Fans of "La traviata," "Aida," and "Otello" creator Giuseppi Verdi met at his statue in New York City Friday to mark 212 years since his birth.
"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, has been adapted for opera. It opens Sunday at the Metropolitan Opera.
John DeMarsico is the broadcast director for Mets baseball -- and he shoots games like they're movies.
The political landscape has changed significantly since Hamilton premiered in 2015 - how the show is seen has changed as well.
With his beard, long hair and brown felt fedora, the jazz flugelhorn player and composer cut an unforgettable figure in American culture.
1960s pop star Connie Francis has died. The first female singer to chart a number-one single on the Billboard Hot 100, she sold over 40 million records before the age of 25.
Richard Greenberg, the Tony Award-winning playwright behind Take Me Out, has died at a nursing home in Manhattan. He was 67.
Routinely called a "musician's musician," the pianist had an atypical career that even he called mysterious. He spent it returning to a handful of favorite composers, with acclaimed results.
NPR gives the rundown of who won big and who was snubbed at the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday night.
Every year, Jeff Lunden looks at those who do essential work on Broadway but aren't recognized by the Tonys. This year, he spoke with those who have made video a dazzling new Broadway tre…
78th Tony Awards preview: What to expect on Broadway's biggest night
