Stephen Gould, a tenor who after a detour into musical theater established himself as a leading interpreter of the operas of Richard Wagner in performances at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany and...
Read moreWhen the composer Jake Heggie wrote his first opera, “Dead Man Walking,” in the late 1990s, he never thought it would appear onstage at the Metropolitan Opera.“The Met was not doing new...
Read moreA handful of New York venues can be credited with generating era-defining scenes. In the 1970s, CBGB, perhaps the best known, was just a stone’s throw from Studio Rivbea, a dingy and...
Read moreThink “Clue” by the French seaside, add a splash of sleaze, crank up the queerness, and you get “The Origin of Evil,” a catty family-fortune thriller by the writer and director Sébastien...
Read moreLaurence des Cars was a young curatorial recruit at the Musée d’Orsay in 1994 when she had a dream: pairing two great French painters, Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas, in a single...
Read moreWhile we wait in anticipation for Rockstar Games to drop a teaser for Grand Theft Auto 6 (GTA 6), there has not been a word from the developers. GTA 6 is expected...
Read moreWhatever Degas’s opinions of Manet’s political thinking — he referred to him once him as “more vain than intelligent” — his belief in the importance of his art held firm, and may...
Read moreThe tone of “Expend4bles” can be summarized in a single close-up: a corpse’s severed hand flipping the bird. To its director, Scott Waugh, and all those responsible for resurrecting this dormant action...
Read more“We realize he’s crying” must be among the scariest stage directions an actor could find at the top of a script. How do you get from zero to tears with no context?That’s...
Read moreA former wardrobe designer who worked briefly on Lizzo’s 2023 tour before being dismissed filed a lawsuit on Thursday alleging that the tour’s wardrobe manager had created a hostile work environment that...
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