For the first time in 43 years, there is no production on Broadway by the composer whose blockbusters helped define musical theater over the past half-century. He talks about the state of theater today.
Singer-songwriter Jessie Ware and her mother, Lennie Ware, a social worker, share playful banter in the hit podcast “Table Manners,” during which they prepare and serve meals for visiting celebrities — from musicians, to actors, to chefs, and even a Beatle. Correspondent Seth Doane helped cook and talked with the Wares in Lennie’s South London .
It's a tradition that dates back hundreds of years, extending far beyond Carnival celebrations and the countdown to Lent, in this city of canals where the only mask mandate is: the more extravagant, the better.