Beyond Canvas Episode 2
Ultimate creative bravery is putting your work on the theater stage in front of a live audience. It takes courage and an acceptance of artistic vulnerability. In this episode of Beyond the CANVAS, we speak to some of theater's brightest stars. Multi-talented Lin-Manuel Miranda, acclaimed actor Bryan Cranston and others share their passion for the theater.
Beyond Canvas Episode 1
Making it as a musician takes talent, ambition, grit and a good bit of luck. In the first episode of Beyond the CANVAS, we sit down with icons Bruce Springsteen, Reba McEntire, Yo-Yo Ma and others to talk about some of their most vulnerable moments.
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A new half-hour program showcases some of the nation’s leading cultural creators -- musicians, playwrights, comedians, costume designers, among many others -- who show us how they turn their visions of the world into art.
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Beyond the Canvas: Episode 2 Taking the Stage
To Gloria Estefan, wearing a mask is as simple as taking care of each other
PBS NewsHour invites you to go Beyond the CANVAS
Yo-Yo Ma on how musicians can ‘rebuild our humanity’ during the pandemic
9 songs that show how people of the past coped with pandemics
‘Little House on the Prairie’ author’s life, times examined in PBS film
An essay on power and the police
A Brief But Spectacular take on surviving coronavirus at age 102
‘Caste’ author Isabel Wilkerson on America’s race and class hierarchy
Neil Young sues Trump campaign for playing his songs at events
