Lois Kirschenbaum, the Ultimate Opera Superfan, Dies at 88
In New York opera circles, an autograph request from her, the mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade said, was considered "a special type of approval."
In New York opera circles, an autograph request from her, the mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade said, was considered "a special type of approval."
Performing-arts protesters locked out by the pandemic have occupied playhouses across France, but drama is not allowed. Cue the "agoras."
After a lost live 2020, the theater will stage a musical at a museum's reflecting pool and an immersive show, all over town, based on real events.
Plenty of Academy Awards history could be made at this year's ceremony, especially if the SAG Award winners repeat. Here are some records that could fall.
The play is about the effect of the Flint, Mich., water crisis on three generations of women.
The Brooklyn Academy of Music presented its first live performance in more than a year: Le Patin Libre, a contemporary skating company.
"So You Think You Can Dance" may be on pandemic hiatus, but the show's alums can be found on screens of all sizes.
The Tony-winning musical theater actor and TV star planned to debut a cabaret show in 2019. Illness hit, then the pandemic. But he hasn't been stopped.
For Sara Krulwich, who has shot productions for The New York Times for more than two decades, a series of recent assignments hinted at an industry revival.
Stimulating and immersive " yet actor-free " this audio adaptation of the Saramago novel brings the terror of an epidemic into your ears.
"A Beautiful Noise," featuring songs from the hit-maker's deep catalog, will play a monthlong run in Boston in 2022, with New York planned next.
For "When We Fell," a filmed dance, the choreographer took cues from a snowy bubble residency " and from Prince's "Under the Cherry Moon."
Before 2020, theater often felt inaccessible to me, a luxury for those who were more able-bodied or lived in certain cities. Now I'm obsessed.
The organization that runs the annual competition honoring theater work in Los Angeles imploded after it misidentified an Asian-American actor.
This interactive play gives voice to marginalized people, while also asking its audience to mistrust them.
The monologuist appeared onstage, indoors, in front of a real audience, on the first day possible. Maybe he shouldn't have rushed.
Even though it was streaming at the same time, moviegoers flocked to theaters. But with caps on seating capacity, analysts said, the take was about half of what was normal.
More than a year after the pandemic abruptly shuttered theaters and concert halls across the city, limited audiences were welcomed back inside.
Before a masked, distanced and virus-tested audience of 150, the dancer Savion Glover and the actor Nathan Lane performed, celebrating theater and testing safety protocols a year after the p…
A three-time Tony nominee, he first became known for avant-garde works, many of them christened with rambling titles, that sparked spirited reactions.
At Ballet National de Marseille, a varied night of dances by Lucinda Childs, Tânia Carvalho, Lasseindra Ninja and Oona Doherty.
At Pacific Northwest Ballet, two online premieres: Donald Byrd's has a Western theme and Alejandro Cerrudo's undulates.
For about three months, an Upper West Side comedy club has been organizing Saturday-night shows on the 1 train.
The first English-language film from the Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar stars Tilda Swinton and adapts Jean Cocteau to sublime results.
In "A Little Devil in America," Abdurraqib moves from Master Juba to Josephine Baker to Sun Ra to Patti LaBelle to "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air."