About half of the revenue for American ballet companies each year comes from the cozy seasonal favorite "The Nutcracker." Since COVID, they have become even more dependent on those sugarplum…
Washington, D.C.'s performing arts center was named for President Kennedy after his assassination. But his vision for the arts as a cornerstone of democracy was shared by Eisenhower and John…
Artists from abroad are worried that the current climate is making American tours not worth the time and effort.
Stephen Nakagawa, a former Washington Ballet dancer, will be the new director of dance programming. The announcement comes five days after the Kennedy Center's previous chief was dismissed.
Michael Abels writes scores for Jordan Peele. He won a Pulitzer Prize for the opera "Omar." Now, the Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center shows off his classical side.
H. Sinno, former lead singer of the pioneering Lebanese rock band Mashrou' Leila, pairs their own history with that of the Metropolitan Museum's Temple of Dendur in their new opera.
"The Chevalier," an intriguing music-theater hybrid, unwraps the still little-known life and work of this 18th-century composer.
Plans are still coming together, but two up-and-coming names on Broadway are already attached to the Prince project: playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and director Lileana Blain-Cruz.
But the Broadway League said " in its first full demographics report since before the pandemic " that New York City's celebrated tourism draw has still not fully rebounded to pre-COVID level…
William Ivey Long, a six-time Tony Award winner and past chairman of the American Theatre Wing, is one of the defendants in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by Court Watson, a set and costume desig…
A new live stage show features actor John Malkovich transformed into some of the meanest music critics ever " in real reviews skewering the work of great composers like Beethoven, Brahms and…
Clarence Avant, who boosted the careers of generations of musicians, entertainers, sports stars and politicians, has died. He was 92.
There's been a disturbing trend at concerts this summer: performers like Harry Styles, Drake and Bebe Rexha being hit " and sometimes hurt " by audience members throwing things at them durin…
In the festival "Archive of Desire," artists and musicians thoughtfully engage with the writing of Constantine P. Cavafy, a self-assessed "ultramodern poet."
Travel to the U.S. for performing artists could get more expensive after U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has proposed doubling the cost of visa applications.
Multidisciplinary artist Samora Pinderhughes has explored mass incarceration for the last eight years. With this sizeable grant, he hopes to sustain "The Healing Project" for decades to come.
After VAN magazine published accusations against Robert Beaser, a former head of The Juilliard School's composition department, hundreds of composers, educators and presenters are demanding …
Three people have accused two teachers at the world-renowned music school " composers Robert Beaser and the late Christopher Rouse " of sexual misconduct dating back to the 1990s and 2000s.
A Mexican cumbia-punk band called Son Rompe Pera, a traditional singer from West Bengal named Rina Das Baul and a group from near Timbuktu called Al Bilali Soudan: three global acts on the r…
In New York City, the area dominated by Lincoln Center was formerly home to Black and Puerto Rican communities. Etienne Charles' new musical work addresses that difficult past.
A new project conceived by Lebanese American tenor Karim Sulayman recasts baroque music that by turns demonizes and exoticizes Arabs and Muslims.
A number of Russian stars from the performing arts world are using their voices and international platforms to denounce the invasion of Ukraine and speak up against Russian President Vladimi…
While Russian artists and institutions grapple with how they are viewed internationally, American cultural organizations make what amounts to foreign policy decisions.
A New York City opera company created an updated version of Fidelio for the Black Lives Matter era. The performance features singers who are incarcerated in real life.
William Ivey Long is an iconic presence on Broadway, designing costumes for shows such as Diana: The Musical and Chicago. Now two men have accused the former Tony Awards chairman of sexual a…