General Features
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Interview
By Margaret Hall | June 9, 2022The Off-Broadway musical will complete its run at Playhouse 46 June 13.
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General Features
7 Takeaways from 92Y’s Playing Othello With André Holland, Chukwudi Iwuji, and John Douglas ThompsonBy Leah Putnam | March 11, 2022
The actors discussed some of the expectations and challenges that come with playing The Bard’s complicated Moor of Venice.
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Film & TV News
By Olivia Clement | June 12, 2019The Hamilton creator discusses his latest project and his love of his favorite uptown neighborhood.
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General Features
By Robert Viagas | October 2, 2017He started as a clerk and now co-owns the Broadway institution, celebrating its centenary.
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Classic Arts Features
By Mark Burford | December 24, 2015"A sing along is just taking that excitement one step further ..."
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Classic Arts Features
December 23, 2015Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonatoled a series of master classes for young artists in Carnegie Hall's Resnick Education Wing.
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Classic Arts Features
By Barrymore Laurence Scherer | July 15, 2015Joan of arc, who has represented an array of qualities over centuries, is the center of this month's Philharmonic theatrical extravaganza, June 10 _13, starring oscarwinner Marion Cotillard.
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Classic Arts Features
By Daniel Cappello | June 20, 2015Though no English writer would dare try to improve upon William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, certain adaptations, especially in other art forms, can take on such a life of their own that they become: like the play itself: so consummate, it seems hard to imagine the world without them. Perhaps this was never truerthan in the case of Kenneth MacMillan's 1965 balletic masterpiece of the same title, which is currently celebrating 50 splendid years.
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Classic Arts Features
April 26, 2015In the new exhibition Sinatra: An American Icon, visitors will have a chance to look deeper into the life and legacy of Frank Sinatra.
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Classic Arts Features
By David Clarke | March 3, 2015If the phrase "American Songbook" only conjures up names likeGershwin, Kern, Ellington, or Styne, it's time to experience American Songbook in the Penthouse.
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Classic Arts Features
By Fred Plotkin | February 20, 2015Audiences who are passionate about vocal recitals have already marked their calendars for the return of Lincoln Center's Art of the Song series at Alice Tully Hall.
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Classic Arts Features
February 4, 2015What shapes the breadth and scope of Cal Performances' programming?
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Classic Arts Features
By Luke Crisell | January 22, 2015Dustin Yellin moves like he talks, which is to say: extremely fast.
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Classic Arts Features
By Randy Nordschow | March 15, 2008Eternally apt performance artist Laurie Anderson - appearing at Zankel Hall on March 26 - reveals new searing ruminations on America.
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Classic Arts Features
By Dwight Garner | December 22, 2007In its tenth year (which runs Jan. 23 through March 1), Lincoln Center's series looks to the cusps of American song.
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Classic Arts Features
By Susan Jackson | November 21, 2007Lincoln Center continues to make its campus accessible to the disabled.
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Classic Arts Features
By Carl R. Cunningham | August 20, 2007Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera took a great leap forward in 1987 with the opening of their new home.
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Classic Arts Features
By Joy Goodwin | August 12, 2007Lincoln Center launches its 2007-08 season with a month of remarkable music — and the 45th New York Film Festival.
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Classic Arts Features
By Jeremy D. Birch | August 4, 2007The Kennedy Center celebrates the new season this September with a month of music, theater, dance, and fun events for all ages.
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Classic Arts Features
By Eric Myers | July 12, 2007"There should be a fountainhead in the city for music and art, and it seems to me that [New York] City Center fills that need." (Leonard Bernstein, 1945)
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Classic Arts Features
By Harry Haun | July 6, 2007Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Spain are represented among the Spanish-language events at the 2007 Lincoln Center Festival.
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Classic Arts Features
By Robert Johnson | June 25, 2007The 2007 edition of Lincoln Center Out of Doors celebrates the fabulous '60s all through the month of August.
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Classic Arts Features
By Pat Kinney | June 12, 2007One of Japan's leading Kabuki players, Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII, returns with his troupe to Lincoln Center Festival in July.
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Classic Arts Features
By John Donohue | May 24, 2007After nearly two decades on Josie Robertson Plaza, Midsummer Night Swing (which starts its 2007 season on June 19) is more popular than ever.
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Classic Arts Features
By Charlotte Kaiser Weinberg | March 25, 2007Lincoln Center marks the upcoming transformation of Alice Tully Hall with "Good Night, Alice", a gala concert on April 30.
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Classic Arts Features
By Robin Tabachnik | March 2, 2007As the New York Philharmonic presents four concert performances of the classic Lerner & Loewe musical, March 7-10, our correspondent talks with stars Kelsey Grammer and Marni Nixon.
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Classic Arts Features
By David Pratt | February 25, 2007A look at the children's education programs of the Lincoln Center Institute, which holds its annual benefit gala on February 27.
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Classic Arts Features
By Anthony DeCurtis | January 29, 2007David Byrne's Perspectives concerts at Carnegie Hall in February defy cultural and musical boundaries.
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Classic Arts Features
By Amanda Mitchell-Boyask | January 12, 2007Philadelphia's Academy of Music, America's first opera house, turns 150 years old in January 2007.
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Classic Arts Features
By Matthew Westphal | January 2, 2007Opera getting discussed on the evening news — who would have thought that would happen? It did in 2006, more than once. (Sometimes it was even good news.)
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Classic Arts Features
By Matthew Westphal, Matt Blank | January 2, 2007Among the distinguished figures in classical music and dance who passed away in 2006, it's the leading ladies who come most to mind.
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General Features
November 18, 2006Alan Gilbert has a growing reputation as a conductor who makes sparks fly, both on the concert podium and in the opera pit. This was highlighted this past season, when he received ecstatic reviews following an unscheduled debut with the Berlin Philharmonic, as well as raves for the two new productions he conducted at Santa Fe Opera. Of the former, a critic for the Berliner Morgenpost called Gilbert's performances "the embodiment of a conducting 'event'."
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Classic Arts Features
By Robert Sandla | November 12, 2006A Q&A with Barbara Cook, who makes a grand return to Carnegie Hall this season, beginning on November 18.
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Classic Arts Features
By John Ardoin | October 31, 2006Dainty musician, foul-mouthed child-man, something in-between — who was the real Mozart? John Ardoin paints a thoughtful portrait.
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Classic Arts Features
By Marion Lignana Rosenberg | October 24, 2006Magdalena Kozenš brings her sensational artistry to Lincoln Center's Great Performers series in November.
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Classic Arts Features
September 27, 2006VSA arts and the Kennedy Center pay tribute to emerging artists with disabilities who are pursuing a career in the arts.
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Classic Arts Features
By Andrew Clevenger | August 5, 2006Lincoln Center Out of Doors kindles the spirit of play in audiences of all ages.
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Classic Arts Features
By Vivien Schweitzer | August 1, 2006The 2006 Mostly Mozart Festival begins tonight in truly regal fashion — with a pair of Coronations: Festival music director Louis Langr_e conducts a gala concert program consisting of the "Coronation" Concerto (featuring pianist Garrick Ohlsson) and the "Coronation" Mass.
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Classic Arts Features
By Robert Johnson | June 18, 2006In August, Lincoln Center Out of Doors launches a monthlong celebration of the blues.
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General Features
By Joy Chutz | June 12, 2006Joy Chutz looks at a new piece of public art on display at Lincoln Center this summer.
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Classic Arts Features
By Robin Tabachnik | April 8, 2006Lincoln Center Festival celebrates a decade of art on the edge.
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Classic Arts Features
By Marty Lipp | January 27, 2006Great Performers unveils a new series of hour-long, late-night concerts at the Allen Room in Frederick P. Rose Hall.
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Classic Arts Features
By Ben Mattison, Emily Quinn | January 4, 2006Soprano Victoria de los Angeles, beloved for her portrayal of Carmen, died in 2005, as did the powerful diva Ghena Dimitrova. David Diamond and George Rochberg, two 20th-century composers who maintained an ear for melody, also died.
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Classic Arts Features
By Adele Zydel-Harris | December 15, 2005Adele Zydel-Harris looks at the delicate process of maintaining the art in Lincoln Center's plazas.
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Classic Arts Features
By Brian Scott Lipton | November 28, 2005Lincoln Center's American Songbook series warms up for another exciting and eclectic season.
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Classic Arts Features
By Jeremy D. Birch | November 23, 2005The Kennedy Center's state-of-the-art Family Theater opens next month.
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Classic Arts Features
By Tiffany Kuo | October 8, 2005The Juilliard School launches a starry centennial season.
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Classic Arts Features
By Ken Smith | October 2, 2005This month the Kennedy Center presents the largest celebration of Chinese performing arts in American history.
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Classic Arts Features
By Jane Gottlieb | September 7, 2005A new exhibit at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts reveals the remarkable history of The Juilliard School, which marks its 100th anniversary this year.
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Classic Arts Features
By Jeremy D. Birch | August 25, 2005The Kennedy Center celebrates the new season with three weeks of music, theater, dance, and fun events for all ages.
