Performing Arts

NEW YORK—In these days of email and social media, when one can dash off a few lines to a loved one half a world away in a few seconds, the ...

Carolyn Sproule was 4 years old when she saw “The Sound of Music” and promptly decided she was ...

NEW YORK—Actress Maddie Corman had it all—a nice husband of over 20 years; a lovely home in Dobbs ...

NEW YORK—The coolest new show on Broadway in 2019 is the revival of a 1943 musical. Social media ...

I first came across Richard Allain's music at one of Alistair Dixon's “New Lamps for Old” concerts with his ensemble ...

NEW YORK—That each of us has a moral duty to everyone else is a message at the center ...

On May 3, The Cecilia Chorus of New York performs an interesting triptych of pieces shining the spotlight on ...

One day, while walking down the corridor of the seminary where he was studying to become a priest, ...

There was always music in our house when I was growing up: operas and piano sonatas and string ...

NEW YORK—No one's life is worth more or less than any other's is a statement that's the central message ...

In 2015, a building on Great Pulteney Street in Soho finally received London’s famous blue plaque. It marked ...

Easter is one of those times of year when even the most irregular churchgoers can feel impelled to ...

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, ...