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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Tina Knowles, the mother of artists Beyoncé Knowles-Carter and Solange Knowles, about her new memoir, "Matriarch."

An “all-star” version of Stephen Sondheim’s “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum” to welcome the upcoming Princeton Festival production will…

We’re going to hell on this week’s Sunday Opera (7/18 3:00 p.m.) with “Don Giovanni” from London’s Royal Opera House. Lorenzo Da Ponti’s tale of the…

Percussionist T.S. Monk talks about his new CD, Higher Ground, and a new two-disc CD/DVD package of some of his father's previously unreleased live recordings.

Superbly re-arranged by pianist Robert Glasper, Parlato's cover of SWV's "Weak" receives a rhythmic pulse that's elastic and pneumatic by comparison, sometimes evoking the feel of bossa nova. Along the way, Parlato conveys a level of maturity in her sensual but no-frills delivery.

The former leader of Booker T and the MGs has been jamming for nearly four decades, paving the way for countless forms of funk and soul music. The organist's latest album, Potato Hole, is his first solo release in 20 years.

Jerry Seinfeld last sat down with Fresh Air in September 1987, before his TV series made him an international celebrity. Now he's back, and in a big way: Bee Movie, the animated comedy he's written and produced for DreamWorks, opens this Friday. He talks to Fresh Air guest host Dave Davies about the project.

Jerry Seinfeld's animated comedy centers on an amusing honeybee who talks a lot about nothing, then quits work — whereupon the world gets dreary until he starts up again. It's a fairly personal vision — and a bit of a drone.

Many operas have been based on popular plays, and the comedy on this week’s Sunday Opera (3/3 3:00 p.m.) is an excellent example of when this works to…

For some actors, the Method has become an ossified idea instead of an evolving system -- which is what Stanislavsky first envisioned it to be. Now some actors and writers are trying a number of approaches that put a writer's words front-and-center.