Jeff Lunden

Can robots fall in love? A sci-fi musical from South Korea is now a hit on Broadway.

February 26, 2025Arts, Culture & Media

“Maybe Happy Ending” is an intimate science fiction story that has been performed many times in Seoul, South Korea. Now, its adapted version is playing on Broadway. The story, about a pair of robots, sheds light on the human condition in this digital age.

Young classical musicians join forces in Middle Eastern ensemble

January 10, 2025Music

‘Bad Kreyòl’ premieres in New York

November 12, 2024Arts, Culture & Media

New York’s Met Opera debuts ‘Ainadamar’ about Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca and his muse

November 5, 2024Arts, Culture & Media

Classical composer Gabriela Ortiz brings her distinctive, rhythmic Latin American style to Carnegie Hall

October 11, 2024Music

Belarusian play starring Olympic basketball player sheds light on life under a repressive regime

September 25, 2024Arts, Culture & Media

The Belarus Free Theatre has been banned by its country’s government, so the company is making plays in exile. The troupe’s newest production that opened this week in New York City tells the story of an Olympic basketball star from Belarus who becomes a dissident and comes out as gay.

‘Moving and beautiful and hopeful’: 700 international youth musicians gather in New York City for World Orchestra Week

August 7, 2024Music

Young musicians from the United States, South America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East have convened at New York City’s Carnegie Hall for World Orchestra Week.

‘Patriots’: A play about 1990s Russia debuts on Broadway

April 22, 2024Conflict

The intersection of billionaires and politics is the topic of a new play, “Patriots,” by Peter Morgan, the writer of “The Crown.” And like that Netflix series, it’s based on real characters.

The cast of “Journey to the Rainbow” from Germany’s Circus-Theater Roncalli.

German circus meets the Big Apple

December 18, 2023Arts

New York’s Big Apple Circus is collaborating with a famed German circus this year, giving the annual show a distinctly European flair. Jeff Lunden reports on the mind-boggling juggling, the clowns and the poetry.

Uta Hagen teaches at her HB Studio in New York.

Uta Hagen’s centennial

September 25, 2019Arts

She was a great actress — and maybe even a greater acting teacher.