Students at Amor de Dios Flamenco Center practice for their upcoming showcase. Olmo Calvo for NPR hide caption
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British director Peter Brook smiles after receiving the 2008 Ibsen Award for bringing new artistic dimensions to the world of theater. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Chris Herbie Holland (L.) as Tio and Marcel Spears as Juicy in Fat Ham at New York's Public Theater. Joan Marcus/Public Theater hide caption
Pulitzer Prize-winning play 'Fat Ham' takes 'Hamlet' in unexpected directions
Vijay Gupta performing with some of the professional musicians in Street Symphony at the Midnight Mission on LA's Skid Row. David Zimmerman hide caption
Founder of LEAP Africa Ndidi Nwuneli attends Barnard College's Global Symposium in 2015. J. Countess/Getty Images hide caption
Creators of Hair James Rado (left) and Galt MacDermot attend a revival of the musical in 2009. Rado died Tuesday, according to friend and publicist Merle Frimark. He was 90. Peter Kramer/AP hide caption
Julie Andrews sang "The hills are alive" in the film version of The Sound of Music, but Hammerstein's letters reveal that a much bigger Hollywood star had lobbied hard to play Maria. Alamy Stock Photo hide caption
Oh, what a beautiful archive: Oscar Hammerstein's letters reveal his many sides
Karim Sulayman, Raha Mirzadegan, Coral Dolphin and John Taylor Ward perform in Unholy Wars in Charleston, S.C., in May. William Struhs/Spoleto Festival USA hide caption
Ariana DeBose performs onstage at the 75th Annual Tony Awards. Theo Wargo/Getty Images for Tony Awards Pro hide caption
Jaquel Spivey (center) stars as Usher in A Strange Loop, which was named Best Musical at the 2022 Tony Awards. Marc J. Franklin/A Strange Loop hide caption
Patti LuPone (l) won a Tony for her performance in Company. She's here with star Katrina Lenk Matthew Murphy/Company hide caption
Ladies In WaitingFront, l-r: ElenaBonomo (Drums), Kimi Hayes (Guitar), Back l-r: Michelle Osbourne (Bass), Julia Schade(Conductor/Keyboard) Joan Marcus/Six hide caption
James Jackson, Jr., L. Morgan Lee, Antwayn Hopper, John-Andrew Morrison and Jason Veasey play the self-lacerating thoughts of Usher (Jaquel Spivey) in A Strange Loop. Teresa Castracane/Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Association with Playwrights Horizons and Page 73 Productions hide caption
Julie Andrews says she's not the squeaky clean lady you might expect
Judy Garland at home in 1944. Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Actor and comedian D'Lo performing in his one-man play, "To T or Not to T" Mikel Darling hide caption
When Black Boys Die, a gunplay written and directed by William Electric Black. Jonathan Slaff hide caption
Herman Makarenko, lead conductor for the National Opera of Ukraine. Julian Hayda/NPR hide caption
For the past month, Isaac and Nora have been on tour in Latin America. They're accompanied by their parents. Ximena and Sergio hide caption
Meet Isaac and Nora, two French kids who are big in Latin American music
Actor and director Eva Longoria calls Pepe Serna a legend in the entertainment industry. Pepe Serna: Life is Art hide caption
Actor Pepe Serna wasn't interested in becoming a star. He just wanted to work
Still from Ira Sachs's film Last Address. Last Address hide caption
Black artists have always led AIDS activism. This tribute wants to give them credit
Marcus Kuilan-Nazario's "Macho Stereo" is an homage to his late father, an audiophile. He says his father used to record on this reel-to-reel player. Mandalit del Barco/NPR News hide caption
Spoken word and sonic rituals: East LA exhibit features Latinx artists using sound
Marjan Neshat (in white dress), Roxanna Hope Radja (behind couch), Nikki Massoud and Artemis Pebdani in Wish You Were Here. Joan Marcus/Playwrights Horizons hide caption