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WSMR explores history and the events in music, culture, the arts and more that shaped our world.

If you've never heard For Bunita Marcus, pianist Marc-André Hamelin predicts it'll be either the most aggravating thing you've ever heard, or the best migraine medicine you've ever had.

How do you get a good night's sleep? Many of us have routines we use to try to reach that blissful state of slumber — from meditation to melatonin to putting on a pair of socks. Sleep scientists weigh in on which sleep rituals actually work.

Players Circle Theater is mounting a production of “Little Women: The Musical,” which is a stage adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel about the lives of the March sisters as they navigate love, loss, and self-discovery during the Civil War Era. We take a deeper dive into the show in a conversation with the director Ted Wioncek III, and actors Kimberly Suskind and Paulette Oliva who play the roles of Jo March and Marmee.

A historian of modern China, Jung Chang turns the lens back on herself in her newest book to understand how she sees the world and why she writes about China today.

Opera Naples has announced the contestants and jury members who have been selected for the 2026 Luciano Pavarotti Foundation Opera Naples International Voice Competition. Out of 430 singers from 19 different countries who applied to compete, 20 contestants were selected.

As the last Arts Annual in the county-owned gallery space in Pinellas County, the exhibition is seen by organizers as a kind of grand finale.

Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world.

In The Rest of Our Lives, the narrator drops his daughter off to college — then keeps on driving, leaving his marriage behind. Ben Markovits' novel was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

WSMR explores history and the events in music, culture, the arts and more that shaped our world.