The SAG-AFTRA strike went on for nearly four months. Mandalit del Barco/NPR News hide caption
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The cast in How to Dance in Ohio in its World Premiere at Syracuse Stage, 2022 Curtis Brown/How to Dance in Ohio hide caption
The Kennedy Center Honorees, pictured L-R top row: Queen Latifah and Barry Gibb. L-R bottom row: Renée Fleming, Billy Crystal, and Dionne Warwick. The 46th Annual Kennedy Center Honors will air Dec. 27 on the CBS Television Network and stream on Paramount+. Mary Kouw/Mary Kouw/CBS hide caption
Queen Latifah, Billy Crystal and others celebrated at Kennedy Center Honors
Maria Callas as Rosina in Rossini's Il Barbieri di Siviglia, at Milan's La Scala theater in 1956. Erio Piccagliani/Teatro alla Scala hide caption
Shane MacGowan live onstage in 1988, courtesy of the documentary film Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan. Andrew Catlin/Magnolia Pictures hide caption
Shane MacGowan, irascible frontman of The Pogues, has died at age 65
A scene from Florencia en el Amazonas. Ken Howard/Met Opera hide caption
Finding a place at the Met, this opera sings in a language of its own
Andrew Caira (left) and Adam Parbhoo (right) star in a performance of Saw the Musical: The Unauthorized Parody of Saw at Manhattan's AMT theater. Natalie Keyssar for NPR hide caption
A musical parody of 'Saw' teases out the queer love story from a cult horror hit
Arielle Jacobs and Jose Llana as Imelda and Ferdinand Marcos in the Broadway musical Here Lives Love. Billy Bustamante, Matthew Murphy and Evan Zimmerman (2023) hide caption
Blake Roman, left, Steven Telsey, Zal Owen, Danny Kornfeld, Eric Peters and Sean Bell in Harmony. Julieta Cervantes/Harmony hide caption
Costume designer William Ivey Long in New York City in 2016. Long is currently facing a civil lawsuit accusing him of sexual assault. Theo Wargo/Getty Images hide caption
Playwright Larissa FastHorse is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and co-founder of Indigenous Direction, a consulting firm for Indigenous arts and audiences. John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation hide caption
Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse takes on the 'wild mess' of Thanksgiving
Billy Porter Franz Szony/Republic Records hide caption
'I've been trying to do this for over 30 years' — Billy Porter sings on his terms
The award-winning young playwrights of Enough! take a bow at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., in November 2023. Jati Lindsay/The Kennedy Center hide caption
Teens wrote plays about gun violence — now they are being staged around the U.S.
Cirque du Soleil is unveiling a plan to join its famous acrobatic shows with Nashville's country music. Here, a cast member performs during the The Beatles LOVE show by Cirque du Soleil at The Mirage in Las Vegas. Ethan Miller/Getty Images for Cirque du Solei hide caption
Left to right: Norm Sundholm, Lynn Easton, Dick Peterson, Mike Mitchell, and Barry Curtis of the touring version of the rock and roll band "The Kingsmen" perform onstage in 1964. Michael Ochs/Archives/Getty Images hide caption
'Louie Louie': The story behind the song everyone knows but no one understands
Oops, I messed up! 7 common public speaking issues — and how to fix them
Sondheim had the highest standards for himself, the director of Here We Are said. Emilio Madrid/Here We Are hide caption
A 24-year-old piano prodigy, Jahari Stampley, has won one of the most prestigious awards in jazz. The competition held by the Herbie Hancock Institute is widely seen as anointing new stars. Marcio Toledo hide caption
Pianist Jahari Stampley just won a prestigious jazz competition — he's only 24
John Malkovich says theater is like surfing. Actors might think they are the wave — but they're not: "The wave is created by the collision between the material and the public. You ride the wave or you don't." Malkovich is pictured above in The Music Critic. Julia Wesely/Aleksey Igudesman hide caption