Jeff Lunden

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The task? Finish Stephen Sondheim's last musical. No pressure.

Monday, October 23, 2023

When the composer/lyricist died in 2021 at age 91, he left behind a partly finished show called Here We Are. But his collaborators say Sondheim loved a puzzle — and he left them all the pieces.

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A Jim Crow satire returns to Broadway after 62 years — and it's a romp, not a relic

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

In 1961, actor and Civil Rights activist Ossie Davis wrote the blistering play Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch. Now, Leslie Odom Jr. stars in the revival.

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

Wednesday, August 30, 2023

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.

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

Friday, August 25, 2023

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

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You can immerse yourself — literally — in this Broadway show

Saturday, July 22, 2023

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.)

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You can immerse yourself — literally — in this Broadway show

Tuesday, July 18, 2023

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.

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

Friday, June 23, 2023

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

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Bargains on Broadway: How TKTS helped to save theater and Times Square

Friday, June 23, 2023

Envisioned as a way to help rejuvenate the theater district in 1973, the TKTS booth has evolved to serve a continuing demand for affordable tickets.

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British star Glenda Jackson has died at age 87

Thursday, June 15, 2023

Jackson was one of the finest British actors of her generation, winning Oscar, Emmy and Tony Awards. Fiercely political, she also served as a member of Parliament for decades.

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For the first time, 2 nonbinary actors were nominated for Tonys. They both won

Monday, June 12, 2023

The Tony Awards were handed out Sunday night. The ceremony almost didn't take place because of the Hollywood writers strike, but the WGA allowed the awards to go on, televised and unscripted.

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We ask 3 Broadway photographers: How do you turn a live show into a still image?

Sunday, June 11, 2023

Only a handful of theater photographers work on Broadway and their challenge is to capture the essence of live performance. Ahead of the Tony Awards, we ask three about their craft.

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After years of ever-shrinking orchestras, some Broadway musicals are going big

Saturday, June 03, 2023

Producers have been saying for years that large Broadway orchestras are not financially feasible. In fact, the issue led to a strike 20 years ago. So why are some shows bringing them back?

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Tony Awards have gendered actor categories — where do non-binary people fit?

Thursday, June 01, 2023

"We don't gender other people's professions," says actor Alex Newell. "You say ... I'm going to my dentist and I need to hire a plumber." But Broadway's highest honors have male/female distinctions.

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A rarely revived Lorraine Hansberry play comes to Broadway

Sunday, April 30, 2023

Playwright Lorraine Hansberry's show, "The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window," opened last week on Broadway, almost 59 years ago since it first opened.

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'Phantom of the Opera' takes a final Broadway bow after 13,981 performances

Saturday, April 15, 2023

On Sunday night the curtain will fall on the longest-running show in Broadway history: Andrew Lloyd Webber's mega hit ran for more than 35 years. "I got the gig of a lifetime," says one cast member.

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As 'Sweeney Todd' returns to Broadway, 4 Sweeneys dish about the difficult role

Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Josh Groban, Michael Cerveris, Norm Lewis and Len Cariou all agree: It's exhausting playing a murderous sociopath, while dealing with stage blood, a mechanical barber chair and singing complex music.

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Actor Topol, who appeared in 'Fiddler on the Roof' hundreds of times, has died

Thursday, March 09, 2023

Topol — the actor who went by a single name and who appeared on stage as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof hundreds of times — has died.

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A long-forgotten play by a storied New York novelist proves timely in its world premiere

Thursday, March 02, 2023

The Mint Theater Company is staging “Becomes a Woman,” an early play written by Betty Smith, author of “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.”

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A rarely-revived Lorraine Hansberry play is here — and it's messy but powerful

Saturday, February 11, 2023

Hansberry is best known for A Raisin in the Sun — but as she lay dying, she wrote this play about the haplessness of white liberals. Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star.

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Encore: Look out, Nets rivals! Octogenarian Mr. Whammy is coming for you

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

For every sports team, there are fans and there are super fans. For the Brooklyn Nets, that's 86-year-old Mr. Whammy — who tries to hex the opposing basketball team into missing their foul shots.

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