Performing Arts

Easter is one of those times of year when even the most irregular churchgoers can feel impelled to don their Sunday best and attend a service. This joyful highpoint of ...

NEW YORK—“Kiss Me, Kate,” one of the most beloved shows in the musical theater canon, makes a welcome ...

This year's London Handel Festival focused on the theme "Handel's Divas"; yet the word "diva," in fact, was not used ...

It’s 400 years since the death of Richard Burbage, the first person to play the roles of Hamlet, ...

Music expresses the quintessence of life and its events. It is precisely this universality that gives music the ...

NEW YORK—Set in Newark, New Jersey, Chisa Hutchinson's new play "Surely Goodness and Mercy," presented by the Keen ...

Richard Tucker began his career at the Metropolitan Opera in 1945, before it even came to its Lincoln ...

NEW YORK—"Juno and the Paycock," the second play in the Irish Rep's season of three major Sean O'Casey ...

NEW YORK—Every choice a person makes is a test of his or her mettle. Yet when a choice ...

Friday, March 8, 2019, was the 150th anniversary of the death of Hector Berlioz, and commemorations included a ...

Each year, Opera Saratoga packs up one production into one van and brings it directly to thousands of ...

NEW YORK—The turmoil of a confused, failing mind is examined in French playwright Florian Zeller's "The Mother." Translated by ...

According to legend, the Yellow Emperor founded the Chinese civilization in 2697 B.C. He is said to have ...

NEW YORK—It was a decision of genius for The National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene to transfer this production of ...

When England's King Henry VIII broke from the Roman Catholic Church in the 16th century, it was as ...

Henry Purcell's Baroque masterpiece "Dido and Aeneas" is one of the most famous English operas. The last aria, ...

“Bursting with celebration” is how Ottawa Chamberfest describes its 2019 lineup, featuring unique collaborations, international artists, and renowned ...

NEW YORK—One of the greatest joys of fantasy is the escape it brings from the everyday world. But when ...

NEW YORK—There is no way to prepare for dealing with death, as inevitable or unexpected as it might ...

NEW YORK—Set in Dublin in 1920 during the height of the Irish War of Independence between the British ...

Fairly new as far as major classical music competitions go, the New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Television International Piano ...

A Magnificat is a canticle, a Latin word that means "magnify," and in this context "My soul magnifies ...

Majestic, self-disciplined, and stunningly refined—Piotr Huang’s dancing leaves audiences breathless. Even when performing incredibly challenging leaps and flips, ...

Chinese technology company Huawei has not had particularly good press recently. Countries including Australia have excluded it from construction of ...

TORONTO–Children have the tendency to explore the world with wonder—they see and understand life with a pure and ...

Unfinished works of art have long had a poetic allure. Such works are attractive to us today, in part, ...

NEW YORK—Video producer Frank Beacham has based his play “Maverick" on experiences he had with the late Orson ...