Staged in deepest black and dingy white, Guth’s production is unapologetic in its symbolism. It opens on a girl playing with a doll in relative silence. She breaks off its arms moments before that ...

The story of Salome, the niece and stepdaughter of the biblical King Herod, and her pursuit of John the Baptist has inspired countless works, from theater productions and paintings to films and ...

Almost everyone in Salome wants something they shouldn’t. A king desires his stepdaughter, a servant desires a princess and a princess desires a prisoner with equal parts fascination and repulsion. We ...

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Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick In his company debut, the director Claus Guth takes a psychological approach, surrounding the title character with six versions of her ...

The 2014 West African Ebola outbreak killed 11,310 people. Liberian nursing assistant Salome Karwah was not one of them. The disease that tore through her town in August of that year took her mother, ...

Richard Strauss’s “Salome” has been described by opera singers, conductors, critics and fans as one of the world’s most thrilling, fast-paced and visceral works in the repertoire. And yet, the ...

Still in the mood for a Wicked-style fan fiction that rivals its source’s weirdness? What about the criminally rotted horniness of Nosferatu? Imago Theatre satiates these lusts with an English ...

Note: NPR's First Listen audio comes down after the album is released. However, you can still listen with the Bandcamp playlist at the bottom of the page. In the New Testament, Salome demanded the ...