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Listen to actor David Strathairn and the directors of "Remember This" explain how they adapted the play for the screen.
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Clarissa Vaughan, Laura Brown, and Virginia Woolf (Renée Fleming, Kelli O'Hara, and Joyce DiDonato) perform the final trio from "The Hours."
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Premieres on Friday, March 17 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) ReneÌe Fleming makes her return to the Met in this new opera by from Pulitzer Prize"winning composer Kevin Puts, adap…
Josh Groban speaks on why he thinks singing in choirs is great training for young singers and why he loves singing with other people today.
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Josh Groban performs "Bring Him Home" from "Les Misérables" as part of his concert at Radio City Music Hall.
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Go behind the scenes with Josh Groban as he talks about collaborating with Cyndi Lauper, Denée Benton, Tiler Peck and more in this interview with Laura Savini.
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Eve Passman looks at how Mel Brooks uses humor to counteract the "encroaching darkness of life's banality." Written as part of the American Masters Digital Archive project, this essay draws …
Lynn Nottage speaks with the cast members who both have played the title role and how Nottage reimagined her play as an opera.
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Beyond classic musicals like "The Sound of Music" and "South Pacific," writer Laurence Maslon breaks down the unparalleled career and influence of composer Richard Rodgers. Among some notes …
On July 12, 2012, Tracey Ullman sat down with director Robert Trachtenberg to discuss the joys of working with Mel Brooks for "American Masters " Mel Brooks: Make a Noise" (2013). Chapters: …
Playwright, librettist and screenwriter David Henry Hwang shares his experience working with theater producer Joe Papp, who produced his first play, "FOB." "FOB," which premiered in 1980, ex…
Meryl Streep was touched, but perplexed when Joe Papp asked her to take over The Public Theater after his passing. "What he wanted was bigger than what could be, which was sort of always wha…
"I believe that great art is for everyone"not just the rich or the middle class. When I go into East Harlem or Bedford-Stuyvesant and see the kids who come to see our shows, I see nothing so…
Los Angeles Times theater critic Charles McNulty recalls his time as an intern at The Public Theater under the indomitable Joe Papp, reflecting on the 1989-1990 season amidst the AIDS crisis…
Theater critic David Cote explores the legacy of Joe Papp, the man who brought free Shakespeare to Central Park and nurtured new talent in the American theater. The visionary and benevol…
Joe Papp built a stage on a 35 foot portable truck so he could bring Shakespeare to other communities. "I found myself directing all the plays on the mobile unit, because I felt this was the…
In his search for a home for new American theater, producer Joseph Papp saved a historic building in "ruins" from demolition. It was once the Astor Library, which became the first free publi…
Get a behind-the-scenes look into the rehearsal room of "Company" with Marianne Elliott, Patti LuPone and Katrina Lenk.
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On January 17, 2001, actress and dancer Baayork Lee discussed landing her first role on Broadway at age 5, working with Richard Rodgers and other Broadway greats, and her passion for choreog…
From 1954 until his death in 1991, Joe Papp brought more theater to more people than any other producer in history. In his eyes, art was for everyone, not just a privileged few. "We have pub…
Composer Stephen Sondheim, actress Cynthia Nixon and theatre critic Hilton Als discuss the character of Bobby, and how Sondheim's own relationship to his heterosexual, married friends may ha…
When developing Shakespeare in the Park, it was important to Joe Papp that people felt represented in the theater. "Joe wanted to fill the stage with the same kind of people he was gonna fil…
Listen to Katrina Lenk (Bobbie), Cynthia Nixon and the Company cast discuss switching the gender of the character of Bobbie, and how it opened the door to switch other roles in the cast as w…
Listen to star Sutton Foster and director Kathleen Marshall discuss what it took to revive "Anything Goes."
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Preview this season of Broadway's Best, featuring "Anything Goes," "Merry Wives," and "Keeping Company with Sondheim."
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