It may be one of the most mysterious film experiences you'll encounter this year, a mesmerizing mashup of music, opera and dance that was inspired by a historical coincidence — the deaths, on the same ...

A man walks into a bar -- but much more than a punchline follows at "Cafe Buffe," the setting for a new comic opera of the same name by composer Dean Drummond and librettist Charles Bernstein.

The late Andrew Porter, for many years the classical-music critic of The New Yorker, once wrote that he was tempted to consider “The Mother of Us All,” the composer Virgil Thomson’s second stage ...

John Glover’s Eat the Document is based on Dana Spiotta’s 2006 novel about New Left activists. Maria Baranova-Suzuki Throughout, a tenuous connection is drawn between Weathermen-style 1970s militants ...

From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, Lowell House Opera returned to its historic venue, the Lowell House Dining Hall, with a three-performance run of Dominick Argento’s opera “Postcard from Morocco.” Directed by ...

Courtney Love's reputation is such that when she walks into a room, it's possible to hear a sharp, collective intake of breath. That's what happened Thursday night, when "Miss World" herself sauntered ...

German director Dirk Schattner's provocative take on Mozart's "The Abduction from the Seraglio" sets the opera inside a teenage girl's bedroom. Last Friday, one of the Garden State's more tranquil ...

BASEL, Switzerland — Herbert Wernicke, a German avant-garde opera designer whose productions appeared in major theaters across Europe, has died. He was 56. Wernicke died Tuesday in Basel, where he was ...

A dramaturgical sketch by Sean Griffin for "Full Pink Moon: Opera Povera in Quarantine." (Sean Griffin) Just a few days after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, and as ...

1968 is when it all changed. On December 9 that year, Douglas Engelbart, a computer scientist at Stanford Research Center, made a 90-minute video presentation that revolutionized the world of ...