WATCH: In GOP response, Arkansas Gov. Sanders slams Biden for ‘woke fantasies’ By Andrew DeMillo, Associated Press
Nov 06 Watch 7:46 In ‘Honky,’ a play that plays with the language of racism By PBS NewsHour With “Honky,” PBS and Onstage in America present a stage comedy about racism that throws political correctness out the window. Hari Sreenivasan sits down with the play’s author, Greg Kalleres, to discuss how he explores race relations and coded language… Continue watching
Nov 04 Watch Jeff Daniels brings show business home to small-town Michigan By PBS NewsHour Early on in his acting career, Jeff Daniels and his wife decided they would take a risk: leave New York and return to the small town of Chelsea, Michigan, to raise their family. There, the TV and movie star built… Continue watching
Sep 29 Watch 7:25 Anna Deavere Smith tackles school-to-prison pipeline on stage By PBS NewsHour For Anna Deavere Smith, actress and path-breaking performance artist, Baltimore is home. After the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, the city became a sadly appropriate setting for Smith to tackle her latest project: a one-woman show about the "school… Continue watching
Apr 28 Watch 3:41 ‘Disgraced,’ ‘Wolf Hall’ among Tony nominees for Best Play By PBS NewsHour This year’s Tony nominations are out and we’re revisiting two of the nominees. “Disgraced,” nominated for Best Play, examines questions of identity and Islam in America after September 11. “Wolf Hall,” which tells the story of King Henry VIII and… Continue watching
Apr 04 Watch 7:34 Elisabeth Moss embraces ‘everywoman’ characters from Mad Men’s Peggy to Broadway’s ‘Heidi’ By PBS NewsHour Continue watching
Mar 20 Watch 6:59 Bringing the theater of the Supreme Court to the stage By PBS NewsHour To research his latest role, actor Edward Gero had to go to court: the Supreme Court. His character? Real-life Justice Antonin Scalia. But the new play “The Originalist” is more than a portrait of the famously combative leader of the… Continue watching
Feb 10 Watch 4:28 ‘We don’t do kiddie shows’: Alaskan puppeteers create theater for adults By PBS NewsHour Continue watching
Jan 04 Watch 4:03 Theater on a canal? Avant-garde productions immerse audiences, cut costs By PBS NewsHour Site-specific theater, a growing art form that immerses audiences into productions, has become a tool for some producers to save money by defraying pricey traditional staging. NewsHour Weekend's Zachary Green reports on a show playing from a particularly unconventional site… Continue watching
Nov 20 Award-winning director Mike Nichols dies at 83 By Victoria Fleischer Mike Nichols, an award-winning director known for his versatility and genre-blending productions for film, TV and stage, died on Wednesday evening. Over the course of a more than five decades long career, Nichols, known for such hits as “The Graduate,”… Continue reading
Oct 20 Watch Opera depicting a modern tragedy sparks protest By PBS NewsHour An opera slated to open at the Met in New York has stirred very strong feelings beyond the arts community. "The Death of Klinghoffer" is based on a real and recent tragedy: the hijacking of an Italian cruise ship and… Continue watching