The conflict roiling inside of Leonard Bernstein found fervent, ecstatic release in each note of music he made. Listening again, it's still clear this was one incomparable man.
Sound Is the Driver in a Race for Death by SARAH BOXER
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It's not every day that you can step into the same plot twice. "The Sound of a Voice," a new opera with music by Philip Glass and libretto by David Henry Hwang, presented in a premiere by the American Repertory Theater at the Loeb Drama Center here, is a twice-told tale.
The Live Arts Festival in Philadelphia offers a play drawing parallels between 1865 and 2015, and another work that brings cardboard characters to life.
Tony Award winner Alan Cumming appears in a one-night-only staged reading of Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Trigorin, freely adapted from Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Feb. 13 at Classic…
The Nativity, Now Chasing The Rockettes by BRUCE WEBER
The Broadway-size and starry Christmas pageant that is "The Nativity" finds a permanent home in Washington Heights.
From Breezy Bollywood, Films Anything but Vérité by A. O. SCOTT
The touring film series "Cinema India!" offers glimpses into a parallel cinematic universe, one that is complex and sometimes puzzling but at the same time accessible and welcoming.
The Mother of Us All (All of Us Modernists) By MARGO JEFFERSON
The Wooster Group's "House/Lights" combines two unlikely sources: Gertrude Stein's "Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights" and a 1964 B-movie.
Classic Stage Company CSC, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present Tony Award winning actor Alan Cumming in a one night o…
The Globe Theater's production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" features Elizabethan costumes, music and props, not to mention the period convention of an all-male cast.
The Power and Pitfalls of Children in the Plot by MARGO JEFFERSON
Analyzing the effectiveness of filtering politics through a child's consciousness in three much-praised works: "Caroline, or Change" and "Aunt Dan and Lemon" and "Hiroshima Maiden."
Political Plays, Alive and Fiery by BRUCE WEBER
The theater of protest is suddenly alive and well, thanks to English playwright David Edgar and his American counterparts.
