Tag: Performance
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2010 Tony Nominees
Friday, June 04, 2010
It's time to brush up your Broadway. Hear Kurt's conversations with nominees of the 2010 Tony Awards, including Alfred Molina, Bill T. Jones, Twyla Tharp, and Sarah Ruhl. Plus, guest host Alec Baldwin's interview with Laura Linney. Listen to them all HERE.
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Starting Over at Sing Sing
Friday, June 04, 2010
A new play opened recently that had a very exclusive audience: patrons had to go to Sing Sing Correctional Facility to see it. It's called "Starting Over," and prisoners wrote and performed it. Produced by Jordan Sayle and Studio 360's Pejk Malinovski.
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Alfred Molina
Friday, May 28, 2010
In the Broadway production of "Red," Alfred Molina transforms himself into the abstract painter Mark Rothko. Molina told Kurt, "Someone said to me the other day, 'Your Rothko is so unlikeable.' And I remember thinking, well, great. That means I'm not pandering."
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Fly Her to the Moon
Friday, May 21, 2010
Twyla Tharp created and choreographed the new Broadway show, "Come Fly Away," set entirely to the music of Frank Sinatra. She tells Kurt how she dismissed conventional dialogue, instead creating a narrative driven exclusively by the dancers' movement.
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Lost Without Lost?
Friday, May 21, 2010
ABC's "Lost" ends its phenomenally successful six-year run this week. Studio 360's Scott Blaszak isn't happy about it. He wrote a ballad to help express his pain.
AUDIO SLIDESHOW: The Ballad of Lost
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I Got The Real Thing
Friday, May 14, 2010
Kurt Andersen talks about seeing the premiere of Tom Stoppard's play, "The Real Thing," as a young man in his 20s, and seeing it again two decades later. Had the play changed, or was it Kurt?
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Martha Plimpton
Friday, May 14, 2010
Martha Plimpton may be the hardest working woman in show business, appearing in two television series after finishing a run on Broadway and selling out a cabaret show at Lincoln Center a few months ago. She's been on stage since she was eight years ...
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I Realized I Was a Grownup When...
Friday, May 14, 2010
Craving a KitchenAid; answering to "ma'am;" getting turned down for space camp - Martha Plimpton reads epiphanies on growing up from members of our live audience.
Weigh in: When did you realize you were a grown up?
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Extreme Action Hero
Friday, April 30, 2010
On site at her dance laboratory in Brooklyn, Elizabeth Streb tells Kurt about the genesis of her "extreme choreography." She says it started in her childhood, hunting and fishing with her father. Her new book is called, Streb: How to Become an Extreme Action ...
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Next to Normal
Friday, April 30, 2010
The sleeper Broadway hit about a mother with bipolar disorder and her family recently won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Kurt talks with its star, Alice Ripley, and composer Tom Kitt.
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Bonus Track:
"A Light in the Dark"
Friday, April 30, 2010
Kurt talks with Alice Ripley and J. Robert Spencer (who plays Diana's husband, Dan) about the characters' complicated relationship. They perform the song live in the studio.
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Marina Abramovic
Friday, April 02, 2010
The self-described "grandmother of performance art" is at the center of the retrospective show "Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present" at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Her new project? Sitting silently in the museum's atrium all day, everyday, for three months. Kerrie ...
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Laura Linney
Friday, March 26, 2010
Laura Linney starred in the indie film gems, "You Can Count on Me," and "The Savages," but her first love is the theater. This weekend she wraps up her Broadway appearance as an injured war photographer in Donald Margulies's "Time Stands Still." ...
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Alec Baldwin Gets the Keys
Friday, March 05, 2010
Alec Baldwin will be co-hosting the Oscars this weekend. What gig could top that? Guest-hosting Studio 360, of course. Kurt calls Alec to ask him to host it the weekend of March 27-28, 2010.
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Everything's Better in 3-D
Friday, March 05, 2010
We proudly present "sneak previews" of 3-D movies in development - we wish! Studio 360's Eric Molinsky produced this satire.
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The Art of Conversation
Friday, February 26, 2010
The Guggenheim Museum's walls are bare at the moment to make room for a piece by conceptual artist Tino Sehgal called "This Progress." Kurt talks with Sehgal about the work: a series of four improvised conversations the visitor experiences along the building's famous ...
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Aziz Ansari
Friday, February 12, 2010
He's the obnoxious comedian Randy in the Adam Sandler movie, "Funny People," and the weaselly civil servant Tom Haverford on the sitcom, "Parks and Recreation." Comic Aziz Ansari tells Kurt about the perils of stand-up comedy and his new DVD, "Intimate Moments ...
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Forever Jung
Friday, January 22, 2010
Carl Jung's secret Red Book was recently displayed to the public for the first time. Now in New York, celebrities like filmmaker Charlie Kaufman and comedian Sarah Silverman are using the book to explore their psyches on stage in the "Red Book Dialogues." Produced ...
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Web 2.0 Blues
Friday, January 22, 2010
These days, the internet is the best hope for a new artist to break into the music business. But what's an old-school folkie to do? Scott Blaszak performs his original song, "Talkin' Web 2.0 Blues."
Bonus Video: Scott Blaszak's Ode to Hulu Ads
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No Time For Tea
Friday, January 08, 2010
The tea ceremony is a 400-year-old ritual for serving green tea. But in Japan's techno-centric society (increasingly fueled by coffee) can the tea ceremony survive? Studio 360’s Jenny Lawton talked with tea masters, old and young.





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