Performing Arts

Despite the able cast and distinguished subject of Hal Prince, "Prince of Broadway” feels inconsistent and incomplete.

NEW YORK—The Anderson’s “Songbook Summit” just wrapped their sixth performance, appearing by popular demand at 59E59 Theater.  The saxophone and clarinet virtuosos Peter and Will Anderson intrigued and satisfied our imaginations—not only with the marvelous music, favorites from the great American songbook played out in Broadway musicals, film, and uptown jazz—but with a storyline of […]

Why the classics are important today is a radical question, according to John Henry Crosby, the founder and president of the nonprofit Hildebrand Project. “The sensibility that the classics are important, deserving of a place of recognition, and worthy of being learned from, is in many ways anachronistic today,” he said on July 27. But it […]

NEW YORK—The Mostly Mozart concert on Aug. 4 may be best remembered for marking the New York debut of Beatrice Rana, but the orchestral pieces were equally stunning. The 24-year old Beatrice Rana demonstrated why she is being hailed as a rising star with a pre-concert piano recital of a Bach piece, and she performed […]

NEW YORK—The Bolshoi Ballet, now in its 241st season, has brought one of its most acclaimed new productions, “The Taming of the Shrew,” to the Lincoln Center Festival. The ballet has won awards around the world and, as evidenced by the standing ovation at the end of the performance, the audience at the sold-out performance […]

OAKBROOK, Ill.—There’s nothing inspiring about D. L. Coburn’s 1976 Pulitzer Prize-winning (1978) drama “The Gin Game.” But Drury Lane’s production does remind us that, at the end of a long life, self-reckoning is needed. Blaming bad luck for our failures can only lead to despair. The Bentley Nursing Home is a low-end facility, with unwanted […]

“Duo Cantando” (released through the Savoy Label Group) is a new recording by the husband and wife team of Mika Stoltzman and Richard Stoltzman. Richard Stoltzman is one of the most celebrated clarinet players in the world. A two-time Grammy winner, he gave the first clarinet recitals at both the Hollywood Bowl and Carnegie Hall, […]

Making its belated Broadway debut at the American Airlines Theatre, playwright Scott McPherson looks at when a system of caregiving breaks down, in "Marvin's Room."

Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac is so much more than just an unrequited lover, as director James DeVita’s adaptation and actor James Ridge’s portrayal emphasize.

This production of “Sweeney Todd” takes what is essentially an epic story of power, loss, and revenge and reduces it to something quite intimate.

NEW YORK—In George Orwell’s gripping novel “1984,” the most dangerous type of oppression is one not clearly defined but still capable of insidiously suffocating those who question its authority. Yet for all its power and topicality, the current Broadway stage adaptation, a transfer from the United Kingdom, doesn’t present that message as cleanly as it […]

When Christopher Fecteau moved to New York City in 1997, he discovered there were few opportunities for young singers to gain experience. To remedy the problem, in 2000 he and Karen Rich founded dell’Arte Opera Ensemble. To date, 500 singers have taken part in the ensemble’s programs, with more than 30 percent going on to […]

"The Traveling Lady" is a quiet, pleasant experience, with the show offering a gently layered look at a time when the world moved a little slower.