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Tony Nominations for the annual Broadway Tony Awards were announced today. The musical "Rent" sweep the field with 10 mentions, including Best Actor for two of its stars, Best Director, Berst book and Best Score and Best Musical. (1:30) (IN S

As the season hits its stride at Tanglewood, we speak to a man who not only is keeping the plates spinning here, he is also has an eye on Boston and even…

2: Singer TONY BENNETT. Columbia Records has issued a retrospective set of recordings covering Bennett's 40 years in the business. (Rebroadcast from 7-3-91).

Toni Stone was the first woman to play with men in the Negro League baseball teams in the late forties and early fifties. Stone retired in 1954, but played amateur baseball into her sixties. She died this past weekend at the age of 75. Roger Nieboer has written a play about Toni Stones life entitled "Tomboy Stone" and talks to Noah about this baseball trailblazer.

The new play “Birthday Candles,” written by Noah Haidle and directed by Vivienne Benesch is currently in previews on Broadway, produced by Roundabout Theatre Company and running at The American Airlines Theatre. Opening night is April 10. Debra Messing stars as Ernestine Ashworth, a woman on the cusp of adulthood as the play begins, she ages 90 years onstage, from 17 to 107. Each scene finds her on another birthday assessing her life and choices. Interviews with Debra Messing and Noah Haidle.

By Joe Donahue, Alan Chartock, Sarah LaDukehttp://stream.publicbroadcasting.net/production/mp3/wamc/local-wamc-916415.mp3Lenox, MA – The Artistic…

It's tech galore on this edition of Vox Pop; it's the computer show with Tony Yang of Gig Computers, hosted by WAMC's Ray Graf.

2: Novelist TONI MORRISON. She has a new novel "Jazz," (published by Knopf) and a new book of essays, "Playing in the Dark," (by Harvard). Her novel, "Beloved," won a Pulitzer prize. She's written five novels in all. Today she was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. (REBROADCAST. Originally aired 4

From SNL's Coneheads to Killer Bees, Broadway's Sweeney Todd and Candide, we remember Tony Award-winning costume designer Franne Lee who died on Aug. 27.

Mendez slipped into revolutionary Iran in 1980 and brought out six American diplomats who were granted refuge by the Canadian Embassy. He didn't receive full acclaim until Hollywood made a 2012 movie.