Birkin’s Baggage
On the occasion of her new album, Jane Birkin looks back on old love
London’s 34th Billy Elliot
Caught live at the Victoria Palace Theatre in 2014, Elliott Hanna makes a legendary part his own
Voice of a Generation
A one-woman spoken-word odyssey of Kurt Cobain’s life has captured the attention of critics, and Fleabag creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge, at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe
Super Star Power
More than half a century after Edie Sedgwick and Andy Warhol hooked up, their mystique endures. Now Edie’s sister Alice is making sense of it all
A Moveable Feast
A road trip along France’s Côte d’Azur, with stops at five 20th-century modernist houses along the way
Zola Ganzorigt
The business-school student turned manicurist has quickly become Hollywood’s favorite nail artist
Bad Samaritans
From Glyndebourne, Ethyl Smyth’s ill-starred, tremendous The Wreckers (1906), at last in the original French
Second-Guessing Puccini
Live from Salzburg 2022, Asmik Grigorian takes on the trifecta Il Trittico
In Her Glory
Norway’s Lise Davidsen triumphs as Richard Strauss’s Grecian princess Ariadne
Making a Murderer
In London, a new play about President Vladimir Putin and Boris Berezovsky, from the man behind The Crown, is both topical and terrifying
It’s a Bird, It’s a Song … It’s The Birdsong Project!
With more than 200 artists, from Nick Cave to Yo-Yo Ma, offering their takes on avian-inspired sound, there’s something for everyone
The Eternal Quadrangle
From Rome, a sumptuous revival of Verdi’s early corker Ernani
Out of This World
Ghana’s buzziest young artist talks finding inspiration for his supernatural paintings
Rehabilitating Mozart
When Peter Sellars and Teodora Currentzis shook up Salzburg with La Clemenza di Tito
Once More, with Feeling
Alan Cumming stars in a documentary about a 30-year-old Scotsman who went back to high school, posing as a 16-year-old student
Her Sixth Tony
The riveting Audra McDonald channels Billie Holiday in decline
A Master Trickster, Re-Discovered
Remy Charlip created fanciful books for children—as well as everything from theater design to choreography (including the “Air Mail Dances”!)
Portrait Mode
Iké Udé’s carefully staged portraits set contemporary subjects in a world inspired by the drama of Dutch old masters