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Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Working hard as ever, Wendell Pierce aims for an annual trifecta: TV, film and theater by Tonya Mosley

Pierce says he's motivated by the "ticking clock of mortality" — and the desire to challenge himself as an actor. He's currently starring in the Shakespeare Theatre Company production of O…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:15PM[SHARE]

Monday, November 10, 2025

'Lockdown was illuminating': Tim Robbins reflects on the origins of 'Topsy Turvy' by Tonya Mosley

"Things that I had held sacred or had held as truths were challenged," Robbins says of the pandemic. His new play is about a chorus that loses its ability to sing together after COVID isolat…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:06PM[SHARE]

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

'It's as if I've been reborn': Misty Copeland begins a next chapter in 'a new body' by Tonya Mosley

Copeland says her final performance with American Ballet Theatre was a thank you to the communities that had supported her. "What I represented is something far bigger than me," she says.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 04:18PM[SHARE]

Friday, June 21, 2024

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

The award-winning playwright talks about his provocative Slave Play,Â which earned 12 Tony nominations. A new HBO documentary chronicles the making of the production. Originally broadcast …

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 12:36PM[SHARE]

Wednesday, November 22, 2023

Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse takes on the 'wild mess' of Thanksgiving by Tonya Mosley

Larissa FastHorse is updating the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to make it "less harmful" to Indigenous people. She's also consulting on a new Peter Pan and has a satire called The Thanksgi…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 06:18AM[SHARE]

Tuesday, June 27, 2023

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

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 nominati…

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 05:55PM[SHARE]

Friday, January 15, 2021

Wendell Pierce On Parenting, The Pandemic And Reckoning With The Past by Tonya Mosley

Pierce stars alongside Charlie Robinson in a new online production of Some Old Black Man. It's "the classic confrontation of father and son," says Pierce.

SOURCE: National Public Radio at 09:24PM[SHARE]

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