Terry Teachout in 2012. Charles Giuliano hide caption
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Critic Terry Teachout in 2014 in New York. Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage/Getty Images hide caption
Lynn Nottage photographed at A Broadway Celebration at the Times Square EDITION, in December 2021. Jenny Anderson/Getty Images for CAA hide caption
Two-time Pulitzer winner Lynn Nottage turns a triple play in New York City
Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in The Tragedy of Macbeth, directed by Joel Coen. Alison Rosa/A24/Apple TV+ hide caption
15th September 1980: Sidney Poitier , the American actor and film director. Evening Standard/Getty Images hide caption
Mackenzie Davis in a scene from Station Eleven. Ian Watson/HBO Max hide caption
Cecily Strong is putting her personal spin on a celebrated one-woman show at The Shed in New York City this month. Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC hide caption
Cecily Strong finds 'Signs of Intelligent Life' in a celebrated one-woman show
Sidney Poitier while filming In the Heat of the Night Keystone/Getty Images hide caption
Actor and comedian Bob Saget, pictured in November 2021, has died at age 65. Phillip Faraone/Getty Images hide caption
Shoba Narayan, the first South Asian actress to play Aladdin's Princess Jasmine, took on the role in 2021. Matthew Murphy/Disney hide caption
Musician David Bowie speaks onstage while accepting the Webby Lifetime Achievement award at the 11th Annual Webby Awards in 2007. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images hide caption
David Bowie joins a list of stars whose back catalogs are sold for galactic sums
The Broadway cast of Come From Away had to cancel a week's performances before Christmas due to a COVID-19 outbreak. When it returned, eight out of the 12 actors in the show were substitutes. Matthew Murphy/© 2021 "Come From Away" on Broadway hide caption
Elizabeth Stanley plays Mary Jane Healy, a central character in Jagged Little Pill. Matthew Murphy/Courtesy of the artist. hide caption
In the third part of our series exploring crossover in pop music, we reexamine the so-called "Latin explosion" of the '90s: what it was supposed to be for audiences across the U.S., and what it actually came to represent. Blake Cale for NPR hide caption
People wait in line at a COVID-19 testing site in Times Square on Monday. Seth Wenig/AP hide caption
Randy Malcom, from left, Alexander Delgado of Gente De Zona and Yotuel sing Patria y Vida at the Latin Grammy Awards on Nov. 18, 2021, in Las Vegas. Chris Pizzello/Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP hide caption
Latin Grammy winner to Cuban leaders: 'We're done with your lies and indoctrination'
Shola Adewusi (foreground) and the company in rehearsal for Merry Wives. When the show first began its run, the audiences were mostly white. Then, the organization piloted Black theater nights, says the Public Theater's artistic director, Oskar Eustis. "And we had two nights in which the Delacorte was 98 percent Black audiences, 1500 people a night." Joan Marcus/Courtesy of the Public Theater hide caption
Here's how theater directors have reimagined their work during the pandemic
Jaquel Spivey performs as Usher in A Strange Loop at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington D.C. Teresa Castracane/Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Association with Playwrights Horizons and Page 73 Productions hide caption
A Pulitzer winner at the worst possible time, 'A Strange Loop' is Broadway-bound
Iphigenia, played by esperanza spalding, prepares for her sacrifice. From Wayne Shorter and spalding's opera, ...(Iphigenia). Jon Fine/Courtesy of the artist hide caption
Music educator Monica Levin teaches via video conference at Frances Fuchs Early Childhood Center in Prince George's County, Maryland. Jennifer Samson hide caption
For kids grappling with the pandemic's traumas, art classes can be an oasis
Mel Brooks (shown here in 1984) calls comedy his "delicious refuge" from the world: "I hide in humor and comedy. I love it." Larry Ellis/Daily Express/Hulton Archive/Getty Images hide caption
Mel Brooks says his only regret as a comedian is the jokes he didn't tell
The 2021 Kennedy Center honorees: (left to right) opera star Justino Díaz, Saturday Night Live creator Lorne Michaels, singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell, entertainer Bette Midler and Motown founder Berry Gordy. Scott Suchman/Kennedy Center hide caption
Brandon Michael Hall, LaChanze and Chuck Cooper in Roundabout Theatre Company's Trouble in Mind. Joan Marcus/Roundabout Theatre Company hide caption