263 stories by "ALLAN KOZINN"
A variety of classical music and opera programming will be offered at the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts in Katonah, N.Y.
Maurice Peress will re-create the debut performance of George Gershwin's jazz-tinged work at Town Hall on Feb. 12.
The Maury Yeston musical, which won five Tony Awards in 1999, including Best Musical, will play in Toronto this summer before coming to Broadway in the fall.
The orchestra musicians and several of the principal singers of the New York City Opera will perform to commemorate the now-defunct company's 70th anniversary.
This year's Live Ideas Festival in Chelsea will present readings and multi-disciplinary performances inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin.
"Wow," an operatic work in progress, will run at BRIC House, a new performance space in Brooklyn, Jan. 23 throuh Feb. 1.
In Terry Teachout's one-man play, John Douglas Thompson will play Louis Armstrong, reminiscing backstage after one of his last concerts.
The award, named for the monologuist who died in 2004, includes a $20,000 commission to create a work.
Laura Kaminsky had been the artistic director of Symphony Space since 2010, and the overseer of its music programming since 2006.
Stephen King gave the Benson Theater company permission to adapt his book for two benefit performances in March.
The Trey McIntyre Project in Boise will mount a tour this spring and then cease operating as a full-time dance troupe, becoming a project-driven company.
Mr. Counts, a director and visual artist, will help oversee the company's immersive productions and installations.
Queen Elizabeth II's New Year's Honors List includes Sir Simon Rattle, the Liverpool-born conductor, as well as Sir Peter Maxwell Davies and Angela Lansbury.
Eddie George, who retired from the NFL in 2005, is playing the title role in the Nashville Shakespeare Festival's production of "Othello."
Opera America is offering grants for women who write operas.
A colorized broadcast of two "I Love Lucy" episodes outperformed a Peanuts Christmas special and the perennial holiday film "It's a Wonderful Life" on Friday night.
A judge overseeing New York City Opera's bankruptcy case said the company could not yet refund money to people who bought tickets for performances that were canceled.
The soprano Anna Netrebko's concert on Jan. 15 is actually a promotion, of sorts, for the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Borodin's "Prince Igor."
The Tony-winning actress will play prison matron "Mama" Morton in the long-running Broadway musical.
Ms. Lavin will play an actress who goes to pieces in Mr. Silver's latest work, "Too Much Sun," at the Vineyard Theater.
Starting in January, Mr. Joel will play a show a month at the Garden for as long as fans want to hear him play, he said Tuesday.
The Canadian Opera Company in Toronto has commissioned Mr. Wainwright's second opera, "Hadrian."
Christine Schäfer, the soprano who was to have sung Adele in the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Die Fledermaus," has withdrawn because of illness, the Met said.
Angela Lansbury will reprise her Tony-winning performance in "Blithe Spirit" when she returns to the London stage for the first time in nearly 40 years.
The play will open at the Neil Simon Theater, more typically a home for big-budget musicals.
