The Metropolitan Opera is proposing a future with its new production of Tristan und Isolde. Directed by the now middle-aged enfant terrible Yuval Sharon, it is in part a test of his suitability for the Der Ring des Nibelungen, which will follow in 2027. Do we imbibe Richard Wagner’s musical potion in Sharon’s new take on the mythic love story?

This is how the Deutsches Theater in Berlin announced Noah Haidle's most recent play, 'Spirit And The Dust,' which was produced as a World Premiere: "Noah Haidle, an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose works have been performed on Broadway, in the US, and worldwide, has created a great play about what we call life: about friendship, late love, and deep pain. After The Homemaker and Birthday Candle at the Deutsches Theater, director Anna Bergmann is staging a world premiere by Noah Haidle for the third time."

Since they first met at a musical theater workshop in 1982, Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty have become two of the most important contributors to musical theater. They won Tony Awards in 1998 for their score to “Ragtime,” were nominated for Academy Awards and Golden Globes Awards for the animated film “Anastasia” and have enjoyed success with such shows as “Seussical,” “Once On This Island” and the Broadway version of “Anastasia.”

Hell's Kitchen is an inspiring and invigorating Broadway musical inspired by musical artist Alicia Keys' youth. The jukebox musical features songs composed by Keys.

Film at Lincoln Center announces “Christian Petzold In Person,” a seven-film showcase of the German director’s signature works, with most films presented on 35mm. Christian Petzold has said that he always wants to work in Kodak color, the only film stock that can convey his concepts. March 16-19 in advance of the US premiere of Petzhold's Miroirs No. 3.

The Mount and Grace Church Celebrate Edith Wharton with a One-Night-Only Event on April 9th in NYC – Adapting Wharton: The Operatic Reimagining of Roman Fever

Boasting in the promotional style of P.T. Barnum and the Ringling Brothers, Asolo Repertory Theatre promises “The Greatest Season on Earth” for 2026-27 with two world premieres, including one about Sarasota’s rich circus history.

Jason Berger created a gestural style of landscape painting that he promoted as Direct Vision. It relates to French art, where Berger worked with a Traveling Fellowship upon graduation from the Museum School. He and his wife, Marilyn Powers, were active in Newbury Street galleries. The best works were brushy and expressive with saturated color. The white of canvas gave the sense of sketches and watercolors.

The Tanglewood Popular Artist Series adds three blockbuster shows to this summer’s lineup: Hugh Jackman with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops (August 11, 7 p.m.), Brandi Carlile (August 18, 7 p.m.), and John Fogerty and Steve Winwood (September 6, 7 p.m.).

Kennedy has written some almost poetic lines. She displays a deep understanding of how bruised people persuade themselves of their own reality. The issues she brings up about love, death, caring and more are done subtlety and in character. No preaching or hitting the audience over the head with a “moral.”

From the very beginning, I wanted to leave my stamp on the cultural matrix of my time. A word to the wise guy: if, as a painter, immortality isn’t high on your list, then you should do something else.

Graham’s death in 1991 led to a protracted legal battle over her work that bankrupted the company and shuttered it for several years; Janet Eilber is credited with turning things around by showcasing masterpieces by Graham alongside newly commissioned works and providing an historical perspective to make them all more accessible.

One of the biggest international film festivals world wide, the Berlinale in Berlin, Germany is history for this year again. From February 12 to 22, around 200 films from all over the globe were shown in Berlin at the Potsdamer Platz film headquarters and around town.

Audiences should not expect drastic changes, but subtle shifts, like introducing Gilbert and Sullivan for the first time. “I have many guilty pleasures in my life. One of them is ice cream and one of them is Gilbert and Sullivan,” Russell said in the announcement.

Bill Evans, as portrayed in the film Everybody Digs Bill Evans—which earned Grant Gee a Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2026—is inarguably one of the greatest jazz pianists of the last century.

I have seen four people die in my life so far, that’s it. I want to recount this. The first man I saw die drowned off a beach in Mallorca. When they hauled him out, he was still alive and foaming at the mouth, as if he’d swallowed soap and not seawater. He died a few minutes later. I was eight years old.

New City Players has mounted a moving professional production of Samuel D. Hunter's tense but hopeful drama, "A Case for the Existence of God." Hunter's tense yet hopeful drama feels healing in today's divisive world.

Boston Sculptors Gallery presents A Storyteller’s Doubt, a selection of Andy Moerlein’s newest work on view April 2 – May 3, 2026. Offering larger than life woodcarvings as well as paintings, photographic collage and an immersive installation, the show also features collaborations with two esteemed colleagues.

Julia Child was one of America’s most beloved chefs.  Her cooking show, The French Chef, which aired originally on PBS can still be found on the internet.  Who was Juia Child? How did she come to be this exalted personality?

Yo, the only documentary in the main competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, was shown at the Berlin Palast with "the team" in attendance. Banker White, co-director, cradled a puppet rendition of  Yo, the film’s lead character, in his arms as he helped her “sign” a poster hung above the red carpet. Winner Silver Bear for Artistic Achievement

With a cast of Barrington Stage Company favorites, BSC presents 10 fast-paced plays full of drama, comedy, wit, and irreverence, in its annual 10x10 New Play Festival, the cornerstone of Pittsfield’s Upstreet Winter Arts Festival. Now in its fifteenth year, 10x10 will run for five weeks, from February 12 through March 15, on the St. Germain Stage at the Sydelle and Lee Blatt Performing Arts Center in Downtown Pittsfield. Get tickets now as this usually sells out.

The men tried to impress the ladies. We on the staff just raised our eyes and said ‘oh, oh, another major bullshitter’. Few simply said, ‘ahh, c’est un excellent vin’. Oh no, most of them had to embellish with comments about le bouquet, la robe, les larmes, la belle attaque, la couleur, and tra-la-la.

The Wick Theatre in Boca Raton presents an engaging, yet imperfect professional production of "My Fair Lady" through Sunday. The 1950's musical's basis is George Bernard Shaw's 191 witty and satiric play, Pygmalion.

The Red Hangar (Hangar Rojo), a 2026 Chilean historical thriller directed by Juan Pablo Sallato, is being shown in the Perspectives section at the Berlin International Film Festival. Captain Jorge Silva is forced to choose between obeying orders and listening to his conscience. This uncomfortable dilemma does not arise only in the present moment of the 1973 Chilean military coup, but also from his past.

After lunch, my father and I followed Calder down a short path that led to the high-ceilinged studio. which sat on a plateau where the “vultures” I’d noticed from afar, came into view as a flock of stabiles. They were mostly black, a few red, enormous and, despite their stationary nature, seemed as if they were poised to take off at any minute.