There is a way to tell the story of history that is not a chronology but a choreography. Time moves like a dancer drawing near, withdrawing, circling, and each age is the loosening of a veil that once ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

There's a whole world under the surface and only Ron has any idea about it. And sometimes the two worlds collide, and sometimes they don't. Ron holds them at arm's length from each other. Watch every ...

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 ...

Director Claus Guth’s production of Salome at the Metropolitan Opera is heavily laden with psychoanalytic symbols. King Herod’s titular stepdaughter, dressed in a Victorian-era children’s dress ...

The Biblical figure of Salome, Princess of Judea, who dances before Herod Antipas and demands the head of John the Baptist as a reward, infiltrated late-nineteenth-century culture as an agent of ...

Performances in N.Y.C. In Strauss’s “Salome,” is the Dance of the Seven Veils a seduction? A striptease? A cry for help? Watch some memorable versions from its long history. Manon Fleur Antonio and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Even without an over-the-top production—and the Met has had a couple of ...

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 ...

One of the biggest challenges opera companies face is balancing their audiences’ unquenchable thirst for seeing the same dozen or so classic works with the need to present less-known and newer works ...