Audra McDonald Reflects on the American Dream at Broadway’s ‘Ragtime’ Revival Opening Night: ‘We Seem to Have Screwed It Up’

Audra McDonald Reflects on the American Dream at Broadway’s ‘Ragtime’ Revival Opening Night: ‘We Seem to Have Screwed It Up’

Broadway’s elite turned out on Thursday for the opening night of Lincoln Center Theater’s “Ragtime” revival, a production that artistic director Lear deBessonet thinks will resonate with audiences today even more powerfully than when it first premiered over 25 years ago. “It is so profound to watch an audience connect with this material,” deBessonet told […]

Oscar Isaac on Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Latin American Telling’ of ‘Frankenstein,’ Channeling Prince and Jimi Hendrix, and Why He Now Chooses Projects for the People, Not the Script

Oscar Isaac on Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Latin American Telling’ of ‘Frankenstein,’ Channeling Prince and Jimi Hendrix, and Why He Now Chooses Projects for the People, Not the Script

Oscar Isaac had the time of his life playing one of literature’s most tortured souls. In Guillermo del Toro’s reimagining of “Frankenstein,” Isaac takes on the role of Victor Frankenstein, describing his performance as unexpectedly pleasurable despite the character’s darkness. He even admitted to del Toro that he was concerned by how much he was […]

PBS CEO Reveals Plan to Save Stations and Programming After Trump Killed Funding, Admits There’s No ‘White Knight That Will Save Us’

PBS CEO Reveals Plan to Save Stations and Programming After Trump Killed Funding, Admits There’s No ‘White Knight That Will Save Us’

PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger is in a race against time. Usually, public TV and radio stations across the country receive their annual financial grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in November. But after President Donald Trump signed a rescission bill in July, the $1.1 billion in federal funding that had been earmarked […]

PBS CEO Reveals Plan to Save Stations and Programming After Trump Killed Funding, Admits There’s No ‘White Knight That Will Save Us’

PBS CEO Reveals Plan to Save Stations and Programming After Trump Killed Funding, Admits There’s No ‘White Knight That Will Save Us’

PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger is in a race against time. Usually, public TV and radio stations across the country receive their annual financial grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in November. But after President Donald Trump signed a rescission bill in July, the $1.1 billion in federal funding that had been earmarked […]

Oscar Isaac on Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Latin American Telling’ of ‘Frankenstein,’ Channeling Prince and Jimi Hendrix, and Why He Now Chooses Projects for the People, Not the Script

Oscar Isaac on Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Latin American Telling’ of ‘Frankenstein,’ Channeling Prince and Jimi Hendrix, and Why He Now Chooses Projects for the People, Not the Script

Oscar Isaac had the time of his life playing one of literature’s most tortured souls. In Guillermo del Toro’s reimagining of “Frankenstein,” Isaac takes on the role of Victor Frankenstein, describing his performance as unexpectedly pleasurable despite the character’s darkness. He even admitted to del Toro that he was concerned by how much he was […]

Oscar Isaac on Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Latin American Telling’ of ‘Frankenstein,’ Channeling Prince and Jimi Hendrix, and Why He Now Chooses Projects for the People, Not the Script

Oscar Isaac on Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Latin American Telling’ of ‘Frankenstein,’ Channeling Prince and Jimi Hendrix, and Why He Now Chooses Projects for the People, Not the Script

Oscar Isaac had the time of his life playing one of literature’s most tortured souls. In Guillermo del Toro’s reimagining of “Frankenstein,” Isaac takes on the role of Victor Frankenstein, describing his performance as unexpectedly pleasurable despite the character’s darkness. He even admitted to del Toro that he was concerned by how much he was […]

PBS CEO Reveals Plan to Save Stations and Programming After Trump Killed Funding, Admits There’s No ‘White Knight That Will Save Us’

PBS CEO Reveals Plan to Save Stations and Programming After Trump Killed Funding, Admits There’s No ‘White Knight That Will Save Us’

PBS president and CEO Paula Kerger is in a race against time. Usually, public TV and radio stations across the country receive their annual financial grants from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting in November. But after President Donald Trump signed a rescission bill in July, the $1.1 billion in federal funding that had been earmarked […]