Is His Figure Less Than Greek? Of Simon Russell Beale, London Assurance, and the joys of farce
May 27, 2022
Elsinore Revisited A Cubist Hamlet from the Australian composer Brett Dean, with the original Glyndebourne cast
May 20, 2022
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble Mean Girls meets the Bard in an encore of Red Bull Theater’s Mac Beth
May 13, 2022
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
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
A Midsummer Night’s Meistersinger From the Salzburg Festival, Stefan Herheim’s legendary staging of Wagner’s marathon comedy
April 14, 2022
Hallelujah! From the National Theatre, London, a triumphant revival of Angels in America
April 8, 2022
Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd! The inimitable, irrepressible Angela Lansbury, on the road as Mrs. Lovett
March 25, 2022
Ukraine Answers, “To Be!” From the Lviv National Opera, the long-suppressed folkloric pageant When the Fern Blooms blazes with heroic national fervor
March 18, 2022
Genius at Play Three decades on, the return of Mary Zimmerman’s breakout theater piece The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
March 18, 2022
A Legend in the Making An interview with the Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo about his timeless, timely new opera Book of Mountains & Seas
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
March 11, 2022
Roll Over, Walt Disney! Beethoven’s animated Creatures of Prometheus from the Philharmonia makes Fantasia look like, well, Fantasia
March 4, 2022
The Queen’s Gambit Immersive midsummer madness from the Bridge Theatre, London
February 25, 2022
Laugh, Clown, Laugh!
Billy Bigelow meets Prince Charming in Jonas Kaufmann’s scorching Pagliacci
February 18, 2022
Nuclear Winter of the Soul Ruth Wilson plays Ibsen’s anti-heroine in Ivo van Hove’s fire-and-ice Hedda Gabler
February 11, 2022
Smoking Gun at the Ballets Russes Did the young George Balanchine steal from a certain senior colleague?
February 4, 2022
When the Cat’s Away … The mice run wild in Ben Jonson’s knockabout sitcom The Alchemist
January 28, 2022
Pop Royalty Little-known paintings by Dame Vera Lynn, “the Forces’ Sweetheart,” whose songs buoyed morale during World War II, go on display in her hometown
One Maestro, One Diva, No Elephants Riccardo Muti and Anna Netrebko put a Salzburg Aida over the top
January 21, 2022
What Color is Your Parachute? As Mark Rothko in the award-winning Red, Alfred Molina tackles the big questions
January 14, 2022
