Madison.com reports that following the cancellation of a moderated panel after a performance of Miss Saigon at the Overture Center, scholars and educators from the local university took to p…
After winning the BBC's Sound of 2018 poll, the 22-year-old Norwegian releases an album of synth-pop anthems and more
Reworked opera is hard going, but comes to life in its later stages at the Muziektheater, Amsterdam
American play from mid-'90s resonates afresh todayIn the history of early photography in the Middle East, it was the Armenian Christian traders and their descendents who became the pion…
The 2010 'spy in the bag' murder is the inspiration behind Kompromat, a new play by David Thame which imagines the murderer using a honey trap to ensnare his victim.
As one of dance's most iconic productions, Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake returns home to a rapturous reception.
This concert performance of the composer's antiwar opera featured a strong cast
The white-hot rage and caustic bitterness against de-industrialization, unemployment, minorities, and immigrants, not to mention races and religions other than white and Christian, may have …
Two-hander with a Walt Whitman poem and a clever twistHere's a good pub quiz question: after Shakespeare, who was the most performed playwright in America last year? Arthur Miller? Tennessee…
Though Robert Icke's didacticism can be irritating, this Wild Duck undoubtedly pulls its modern audience into Ibsen's tense, spiralling emotions to powerful effect.
MCC Theater brings back Jocelyn Bioh's 'School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play,' a cutting comedy with an emotional wallop centered around six school girls in Ghana preparing for a be…
Joy Wilkinson's The Sweet Science of Bruising, about 'lady boxing' in Victorian times, feels like such a riotous shock to the system. Best of all, it nails this with a story that breaks down…
Snooker, anyone? Anyone? British plays may be as abundant on Broadway as mushrooms in a rain-soaked forest, but "The Nap," by Richard Bean, may seem exotic even to the most obsessive theatri…
Never mind that Sarah Bernhardt " the towering actress of her day " was scarcely more than 5 feet tall. Janet McTeer stands nearly 6-feet-1, but that hasn't stopped her from playing Bernhard…
Unsuccessful West End outing for Dawn King's intriguing and evocative 2011 dystopian chiller.
Su Pollard's Birdie, like the play Harpy, isn't the persona she presents. The wit and humour give way to something that feels like an emotional punch in the gut.
Hudson Theatre, New YorkA zippy, frothy combination of songs from the Go-Go's and a bawdy Shakespearean comedy plot delivers goofy, if forgettable, funJust your everyday genderqueer pastoral…
A revival of Barrie Kosky's in-your-face production of Handel's oratorio
The US band's fifth album addresses the theme of life's changes through an enticing series of cyclical melodies
As directed by Michael Grandage, whose revival of John Logan's Red is just around the corner at the Wyndham's Theatre, The Lieutenant of Inishmore proves that some black humour doesn't age.
In Metamorphoses 2 five different myths are updated by five different playwrights to comment on a range of current topics, from #MeToo to the refugee crisis.
An impressive UK professional premiere for Verdi's opera
Based on a true story, it's strong stuff
Even before it got to Broadway, people were predicting that “The Band’s Visit” would win the Tony Award for Best Musical. And, indeed it is this year’s front-runner, …
An American banker abducted by jihadists in Pakistan must earn his $10 million ransom by making a killing on the market. And as he introduces concepts of high finance to his kidnappers ̵…