Performing Arts

How will 2021 fare in its early days? Will the early reviews be kind, or savage? And will they prove to be true? The poet Alexander Pope’s line, “Hope springs ...

How many centuries did it take to change a sigh and a groan into a song? We will ...

Get set for a terrific two-hour virtual production on YouTube. The scene is a middle-class home in St. ...

“Peter Pan” first took center stage in a London theater two days after Christmas in 1904. In advance ...

Most people acknowledge that phrases like “the Christmas spirit” and “the magic of Christmas” describe real phenomena, but ...

Met Orchestra brass, Berlin Philharmonic horns, and two-time Grammy Award winning mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard have put together a ...

There's a reason Charles Dickens's novella "A Christmas Carol" has never been out of print since it first ...

“This unique and primal music form has clung to me. Like the clinging of my mother's love, it ...

Since the debut of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” at the Goodman Theatre in 1978, “Bah Humbug!” has ...

“A choir's role in the Anglican church and the church of England is to elevate the worship,” Grammy-Award-winning ...

“I love the truth more than anything,” Beethoven wrote to Goethe 200 years ago. Of course, Goethe loved ...

Because the repertoire of classical music is like a web or a maze that can be entered at ...

Chicago Children’s Theatre has found an innovative way to offer an engrossing event that will get families out ...

In recent years, we have seen a new trend in musicals that are made for television and film. ...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago has been in the process of expanding its patron base for years.  Rather ...

The ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has now expanded its censorship from the internet, video, TV, and publications ...

Often called "the man with the golden flute," James Galway earned his nickname. It applies not only to ...

Are we living now in a “classical” or a “romantic” musical era? I mean with a small C ...

LONDON—British theatres urgently need to be given a date when they can reopen at full capacity if they ...

As a composer of music for the classical concert hall, I have been surprised from time to time ...

Is the Great American Songbook still being written? The so-called Great American Songbook is defined as a canon ...

NEW YORK—There is perhaps nothing more painful than the forced separation of two people who are truly in ...

“Life is a journey, not a destination.” “[That platitude] can be a copout, avoiding the effort you need ...

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced on July 17, a $400 million boost to the film and television industry ...

LONDON—Britain will invest nearly 1.6 billion pounds ($2 billion) in the arts, and hopes to allow outdoor and ...

In the wake of the current pandemic, theatrical performances must try to present the same emotional effect that ...

When Ludwig van Beethoven penned his manuscripts, he transformed black ink and white paper into something beyond the ...