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Inside The Arts: NOBA Welcomes Twyla Tharp, Dillard HBCU Theater Shines On, Musaica's Love Wins

Walter Whitman

This week on Inside the Arts... The New Orleans Ballet Association opens its season as Twyla Tharp's 50th Anniversary Tour makes a stop in the Crescent City.  We talk with the iconic dancer and choreographer.

Then, Dillard University Theater celebrates its 80th Anniversary, making it the oldest historically black university theater in the country. We talk with acclaimed Black Arts Movement contributor, playwright, educator and former Dillard Theater department chair, Dr. Ted Shine and theater director Ray Vrazel.

And, we round out with Musaica's "Love Wins". The chamber ensemble opens its 10th season celebrating the music of LGBT composers.

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"This is NPR's Morning Edition, at 89.9 WWNO. Good Morning, I'm Diane Mack."