The Arts

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

Rom-coms, heist flicks, a sports/horror mashup, a pair of Broadway musicals, a biopic of The Boss, festival award winners and lots of showbiz sagas — here's what NPR critics are watching this fall.

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

What does Damn Yankees, a 1950s musical have to say to audiences in 2025? With its themes of selling your soul to the devil to get a win or power or beauty, quite a bit.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Ana Gonzalez and cellist Yo-Yo Ma about their new podcast 'Our Common Nature' from WNYC, which connects music with nature and place.

Opera Tampa features this work as part of a season filled with the supernatural and the unexplained. "Love v. Death" performances are Nov. 1 and Nov. 2 at The Straz Center.

Today is the birth anniversary of a woman who had a major impact on American music and live performance.

The alleged leader of the scheme, a 77-year-old German man from Bavaria, also tried to sell counterfeit works supposedly by Frida Kahlo, Amadeo Modigliani and Peter Paul Rubens, authorities say.

Music brings people together. That's what we're celebrating today on Classical WSMR.