No broomsticks are required to attend the Lawrence Opera Theatre’s 2026 season, “Basic Witches,” which is full of thrilling, ...

Director Mijnssen took an imaginative and provocative stance with her resetting of the narrative in the year of its composition. One may ask, what relevance has “Simon Boccanegra” to the year 1881?

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The 200-year-old traditional Chinese art form, has four basic roles: sheng (male), dan (female), jing (painted face) and chou (male clown). Each has a number of subtypes. Consequently, nan dan is a ...

The Washington National Opera has filed a federal breach-of-contract lawsuit claiming the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts owes the opera company $17 millions in donations and endowment ...

Back in the day, soap fans always looked forward to summer because we knew the action would heat up. Pool parties on Y&R, the Bauer Barbecue on Guiding Light, David Vickers donning his flag Speedo on ...

Puccini’s La fanciulla del West is set in Gold Rush California in the 1840s. When it premiered in 1910, the setting presumably had novelty value, but audiences today might all too easily see the opera ...

A spontaneous opera performance from a Tulsa fourth grader recently captured attention online, introducing many viewers to 10-year-old Luis Soriano. Luis, a student at Jenks Elementary, joined Tess ...

Peter Kozma, founder and artistic director of San Diego’s musical gem Opera NEO, is the first to admit his enterprising company long ago outgrew the master plan he crafted for it back in 2012. Born ...

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