Many star-vehicle shows are opening over the next week in London. Watch out for a lot of reviews hailing young and acclaimed performers. Lia Williams is in the title role for an adaptation o…
Danielle de Niese is hoping to inspire female musicians with a new documentary film. "Unsung Heroines: Danielle de Niese on Forgotten Female Composers," made for BBC4, will be shown first on…
Danielle de Niese is hoping to inspire female musicians with a new documentary film. "Unsung Heroines: Danielle de Niese on Forgotten Female Composers," made for BBC4, will be shown first on…
What is life without surprises? One of the most famous musical power couples has just sprung another big surprise upon us. They have given us a new record out of nowhere with plenty of shock…
The days after the Tony Awards always see a rush of tickets for the prize-winning shows. Those at the forefront of the acclaimed Broadway ceremony this year were "The Band's Visit," "Harry P…
London's busy schedule for performing arts is led by the opening of this year's Meltdown Festival curated by Robert Smith of The Cure and including The Libertines, Manic Street Preachers and…
This week the Northside festival has joined a run of summertime shows in New York, such as the Central Park Summerstage and the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! festival. Off-Broadway shows include …
Orlando Bloom completes the transformation from movie elf to stage baddie in "Killer Joe." Circolombia brings sexy circus to the Southbank.Summer music festivals continue with Lionel Ritchie…
The headlines are out: The nudity in the London stage production of "Killer Joe" includes a scene where movie star Orlando Bloom, with his back to the audience, proudly shows off his bare bu…
Circolombia is in London to prove that the old idea of circus is dead in 2018. Forget other antiquated shows with frightened elephants and lion tamers, unskilled jugglers, phony fire-eaters …
This is the week that New York explodes with music. Jack White and Eminem headline the Governors Ball. There are some weekend tickets left at about $300. Common opens the BRIC Celebrates Bro…
Nick Cave and Patti Smith move the London summer rock-festival season into top gear. Opera Holland Park starts its season with its first "La Traviata" in a decade. Brian Friel's "Translation…
The revival of "Translations" by Brian Friel at London's National Theatre comes with a lot of positive signs:* The late Friel's admirers rate him highly, even putting him in the same territo…
Tokio Myers has had a wild 10 months of success after being catapulted to fame by winning the "Britain's Got Talent" contest.The 34-year-old pianist, drummer, composer and producer defies ca…
Tokio Myers has had a wild 10 months of success after being catapulted to fame by winning the "Britain's Got Talent" contest.The 34-year-old pianist, drummer, composer and producer defies ca…
Tokio Myers has had a wild 10 months of success after being catapulted to fame by winning the "Britain's Got Talent" contest.The 34-year-old pianist, drummer, composter and producer defies c…
The Rolling Stones return to the London stage after five years away. The new boss of the Globe Theatre, Michelle Terry, plays Hamlet.Among theatrical previews starting up, Orlando Bloo…
Among the highlights of New York performing arts this week, there are new theatrical openings of note. "Paradise Blue" is one. Another is "Long Day's Journey into Night" starring Jeremy Iron…
Two major festivals lead performing-arts events in London this coming week. There is the return of LIFT, also known as the London International Festival of Theatre. The new All Points …
Catch up with radical drama such as the newly-opened "Dance Nation" or "Summer and Smoke." Check out music from classical (Maria Farantouri) to rock (Jackson Browne) and rap (the Pulitzer-wi…
One of the greatest new plays on the London stage is about to end. "The Ferryman" will be much missed. It is also your last chance to see "Harold and Maude," "The Inheritance" and "Frozen."A…
It's your last chance to see Anna Netrebko in "Tosca" this week. Stars are everywhere on the New York stage: Denzel Washington in "The Iceman Cometh," Renee Fleming in "Carousel," Glenda Jac…
"Chess" is back in London after decades away " just as the Cold War gets glacial again and ABBA reunites. Wilde's "An Ideal Husband" opens shortly before a Royal Wedding. There are coinciden…
The return of ABBA after 35 years has set the music world buzzing. The Swedish group returned to the studio to record its first new songs since 1982.The announcement today comes after decade…
Denzel Washington is winning hot praise for his "Iceman" performance; "Three Tall Women" is doing the same for its trio of female leads. It's your last chance to catch Antony Sher in "King L…