Nuclear Winter of the Soul
Ruth Wilson plays Ibsen’s anti-heroine in Ivo van Hove’s fire-and-ice Hedda Gabler
Laugh, Clown, Laugh!
Billy Bigelow meets Prince Charming in Jonas Kaufmann’s scorching Pagliacci
The Queen’s Gambit
Immersive midsummer madness from the Bridge Theatre, London
Roll Over, Walt Disney!
Beethoven’s animated Creatures of Prometheus from the Philharmonia makes Fantasia look like, well, Fantasia
Mortality and Mercy in Vienna
As Shakespeare’s “duke of dark corners” in Measure for Measure, Mark Rylance finds real life full of shocking surprises
A Legend in the Making
An interview with the Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo about his timeless, timely new opera Book of Mountains & Seas
Ukraine Answers, “To Be!”
From the Lviv National Opera, the long-suppressed folkloric pageant When the Fern Blooms blazes with heroic national fervor
Genius at Play
Three decades on, the return of Mary Zimmerman’s breakout theater piece The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd!
The inimitable, irrepressible Angela Lansbury, on the road as Mrs. Lovett
Sun Worshipper
“Met on Demand” viewers adore Philip Glass’s Akhnaten