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Free babysitting on Broadway? This nonprofit helps parents get to the theater

Broadway tickets are expensive — add babysitting to that and the costs are often prohibitive. But a nonprofit is trying to bring free babysitting to theaters around the country. Kohei Hara/Getty Images hide caption

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Free babysitting on Broadway? This nonprofit helps parents get to the theater

Broadway tickets are expensive — add babysitting to that and the costs are often prohibitive. But a nonprofit is trying to bring free babysitting to theaters around the country.

Free babysitting on Broadway? This nonprofit helps parents get to the theater

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Wednesday

Obituaries

Remembering Tony Award-winning costume designer Franne Lee

From SNL's Coneheads to Killer Bees, Broadway's Sweeney Todd and Candide, we remember Tony Award-winning costume designer Franne Lee who died on Aug. 27.

Remembering Tony Award-winning costume designer Franne Lee

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Franne Lee, who designed costumes for 'SNL' and 'Sweeney Todd,' dies at 81

Franne Lee at the New York Public Library's Hal Prince exhibition in 2019. Lee designed the costumes for Prince's Sweeney Todd and Candide. Doug Reside/New York Public Library hide caption

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Obituaries

Franne Lee, who designed costumes for 'SNL' and 'Sweeney Todd,' dies at 81

From SNL's Coneheads to Killer Bees, Broadway's Sweeney Todd and Candide, we remember Tony Award-winning costume designer Franne Lee who died on Aug. 27.

Franne Lee, who designed costumes for 'SNL' and 'Sweeney Todd,' dies at 81

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Wednesday

1985 sci-fi comedy 'Back to the Future' and its famous DeLorean are now on Broadway

The star of the Back to the Future: The Musical may be the car. The show's design team created a DeLorean that flies over the audience.

1985 sci-fi comedy 'Back to the Future' and its famous DeLorean are now on Broadway

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Friday

How 'Back to the Future: The Musical' created a DeLorean that flies

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How 'Back to the Future: The Musical' created a DeLorean that flies

It flies over the audience and flips over — but that's not all that it does.

How 'Back to the Future: The Musical' created a DeLorean that flies

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Saturday

You can immerse yourself — literally — in this Broadway show

Is "Here Lies Love" the future of Broadway? The immersive musical about Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos is a $22 million gamble. (Story first aired on Morning Edition on Julu 18, 2023.)

You can immerse yourself — literally — in this Broadway show

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Tuesday

You can immerse yourself — literally — in this Broadway show

Arielle Jacobs and Jose Llana as Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos in Here Lives Love. Billy Bustamante, Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman hide caption

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You can immerse yourself — literally — in this Broadway show

Here Lies Love tells the story of Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos' rise and fall in the Philippines. The $22 million immersive musical production is a big Broadway gamble.

You can immerse yourself — literally — in this Broadway show

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Saturday

Patti LuPone talks quitting Broadway and palming cell phones

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Patti LuPone talks quitting Broadway and palming cell phones

Patti LuPone joins panelists Emmy Blotnick, Adam Felber, and Joyelle Nicole Johnson to talk birds, Broadway, and the proper way to swipe a cell phone.

Patti LuPone talks quitting Broadway and palming cell phones

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Friday

Broadway adaptation of 'Back to the Future' previewed on Broadway last week

The four shows brought in over a million dollars. The musical originally premiered in 2020 in Manchester, England. It officially debuts stateside on August 3.

Broadway adaptation of 'Back to the Future' previewed on Broadway last week

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Tuesday

A new free play at Federal Hall reveals the bumpy early days of the government

Democracy is messy. A new free play for visitors to the Federal Hall National Monument in New York shows just how messy the early days of the federal government were.

A new free play at Federal Hall reveals the bumpy early days of the government

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Friday

Remembering Broadway legend and 'Fiddler on the Roof' lyricist Sheldon Harnick

Fresh Air

Harnick, along with composer Jerry Bock, wrote the enduring music for Fiddler, as well as Fiorello and She Loves Me. He died June 23. Originally broadcast in 1988, 2004 and 2014.

Remembering Broadway legend and 'Fiddler on the Roof' lyricist Sheldon Harnick

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Tuesday

'Slave Play' playwright Jeremy O. Harris is on a mission to diversify theater

Fresh Air

The award-winning playwright helped bring Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window to Broadway. He also talks about his provocative Slave Play, which earned 12 Tony nominations.

'Slave Play' playwright Jeremy O. Harris is on a mission to diversify theater

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Friday

Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who wrote 'Fiddler on the Roof,' dies at 99

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Obituaries

Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who wrote 'Fiddler on the Roof,' dies at 99

The Tony- and Pulitzer Prize-winning lyricist was one of the last masters of Broadway's Golden Age. His career extended over 60 years.

Broadway lyricist Sheldon Harnick, who wrote 'Fiddler on the Roof,' dies at 99

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Tuesday

Actor Treat Williams, star of 'Hair' and 'Everwood', is killed in a motorcycle crash

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Culture

Actor Treat Williams, star of 'Hair' and 'Everwood', is killed in a motorcycle crash

Actor Treat Williams, whose nearly 50-year career included starring roles in the TV series Everwood and the movie Hair, died Monday after a motorcycle crash in Vermont, state police said. He was 71.

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