Take a Chance on Them Forty years after their unofficial split, Abba is attempting a comeback with a live-concert tour featuring avatars of the band’s younger selves
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble Mean Girls meets the Bard in an encore of Red Bull Theater’s Mac Beth
May 13, 2022
Paradise Regained On the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St., the unlikely story of how the greatest rock ’n’ roll album of all time came to be
May 10, 2022
For the Love of Roses Today’s rose fanatics—and there are a lot of them—join a fan club that stretches from Sappho to Shakespeare to Empress Joséphine
Bass Instincts Ron Carter, the most recorded bassist in history, turns 85 at Carnegie Hall
Trump in Iambic Pentameter Meet the British playwright who has turned modern-day American politics into a Shakespearean comedy
A Knight Errant in Love Boston Baroque makes a stellar case for Handel’s rarity Amadigi di Gaula
May 6, 2022
The Man in the Black Turtleneck A hit at the Santa Fe Opera in 2017, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs has its video premiere in a new production from Atlanta
April 29, 2022
Child’s Play Nicolas Party’s techno-colored art is on view in Canada. In an interview, the artist discusses fairy tales, nature, and the power of pastel
April 26, 2022
A Grand Tour of Italy, but Make It Modern The intimate, under-the-radar homes and studios of 20th-century Italian architects, artists, and designers, from Achille Castiglioni and Gae Aulenti to Giorgio Morandi, are as stunning as the country’s ancient and Renaissance treasures. And they’re open to the public
Irresistible Force, Immoveable Object A tempestuous English-language Phèdre, starring Helen Mirren
April 22, 2022
The Tenor from Wakanda Curtis Bannister crosses the line from opera to action movies
Something Old and New Before passing down their estate, the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire host two untraditional art exhibitions at Chatsworth House
April 14, 2022
A Midsummer Night’s Meistersinger From the Salzburg Festival, Stefan Herheim’s legendary staging of Wagner’s marathon comedy
April 14, 2022
A Dirty Business A whistleblower from the factory of millionaire artist Damien Hirst paints a grim scene of low wages and employees knee-deep in formaldehyde
Hallelujah! From the National Theatre, London, a triumphant revival of Angels in America
April 8, 2022
Dancing on Air In the second season of Bridgerton, dance—specifically, the ceremonious allemande—speaks louder than any professions of love
April 6, 2022
