Jeff Lunden
Jeff Lunden is a freelance arts reporter and producer whose stories have been heard on NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Weekend Edition, as well as on other public radio programs.
Lunden contributed several segments to the Peabody Award-winning series The NPR 100, and was producer of the NPR Music series Discoveries at Walt Disney Concert Hall, hosted by Renee Montagne. He has produced more than a dozen documentaries on musical theater and Tin Pan Alley for NPR — most recently A Place for Us: Fifty Years of West Side Story.
Other documentaries have profiled George and Ira Gershwin, Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Lorenz Hart, Harold Arlen and Jule Styne. Lunden has won several awards, including the Gold Medal from the New York Festival International Radio Broadcasting Awards and a CPB Award.
Lunden is also a theater composer. He wrote the score for the musical adaptation of Arthur Kopit's Wings (book and lyrics by Arthur Perlman), which won the 1994 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical. Other works include Another Midsummer Night, Once on a Summer's Day and adaptations of The Little Prince and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for Theatreworks/USA.
Lunden is currently working with Perlman on an adaptation of Swift as Desire, a novel of magic realism from Like Water for Chocolate author Laura Esquivel. He lives in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, has been adapted for opera. It opens Sunday at the Metropolitan Opera.
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"The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay," Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, has been adapted for opera. It opens Sunday at the Metropolitan Opera.
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John DeMarsico is the broadcast director for Mets baseball -- and he shoots games like they're movies.
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The political landscape has changed significantly since Hamilton premiered in 2015 - how the show is seen has changed as well.
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With his beard, long hair and brown felt fedora, the jazz flugelhorn player and composer cut an unforgettable figure in American culture. -
1960s pop star Connie Francis has died. The first female singer to chart a No. 1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, she sold over 40 million records before the age of 25. -
Richard Greenberg, the Tony Award-winning playwright behind Take Me Out, has died at a nursing home in Manhattan. He was 67.
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Routinely called a "musician's musician," the pianist had an atypical career that even he called mysterious. He spent it returning to a handful of favorite composers, with acclaimed results. -
NPR gives the rundown of who won big and who was snubbed at the 2025 Tony Awards on Sunday night.
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78th Tony Awards preview: What to expect on Broadway's biggest night
