Legendary Dance Theater Taps New Leader
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Performing Arts
Routing the supervillains? Most reviewers may have been as aggrieved as the Green Goblin, but Spider-Man snared a substantial audience last week nonetheless.
'Spider-Man' Shrugs Off Critics' Venom
()Need more proof that nobody listens to critics? Both attendance and box-office figures were up in the week after reviewers went all Doc Oc on the Julie Taymor extravaganza.
At Kennedy Center, An Arts Legacy Alive At 50()
January 25, 2011 John F. Kennedy helped boost American interest in the arts when he asked poet laureate Robert Frost to speak at his inauguration 50 years ago this month — and soon after asked cellist Pablo Casals to play the White House. Now, the Kennedy Center honors that legacy with a star-studded arts festival.
Theater
At BAM, A Raft Of Classics, Shipped In From Overseas()
January 24, 2011 New York is one of the world's great theater cities, but it's not every year that several of the world's greatest theater companies visit to perform several of the greatest plays of classical theater. At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, it's happening this season.
Shirley Jones Sings For Richard Rodgers()
January 16, 2011 Shirley Jones is probably best known, at least to a certain generation, for her role as Shirley Partridge. Host Liane Hansen interviews the actress and singer, who recently released her newest album, a tribute to her early champion Richard Rodgers.
The Fresh Air Interview
Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Takes Broadway()
January 14, 2011 The frontman for the pop-punk band Green Day details the group's early days in Berkeley and describes what it's been like to see American Idiot, the Broadway musical based on one of his albums.
Training And Trust: Partners On The Flying Trapeze()
January 5, 2011 When your job is to soar and somersault 45 feet above the ground, you really have to trust your co-workers. As part of NPR's series on creative partnerships, Elizabeth Blair talked with "flier" Andrey Shapin and "catcher" Sergei Philippenko, two trapeze artists in Cirque du Soleil.
Remembrances
Actor Pete Postlethwaite, 1946-2011()
January 3, 2011 Virtually unknown in America until his Oscar-nominated role in the 1993 film In The Name of the Father, the British actor died Jan. 2 after a long battle with cancer. Fresh Air remembers him with highlights from a 1997 interview.
