The old and nuanced art of Peking opera is working hard to flourish in an era of digital entertainment and incessant screens.

Over six decades she worked in theater, opera, film and television alongside luminaries like Alvin Ailey, Lena Horne, Agnes ...

Guardian Australia critics pick the best live stage experiences of the year, including Beetlejuice, The Talented Mr Ripley and a nude ode to literature ...

A little minuet in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro, a hip-swinging processional in Verdi’s Aida, a ballroom waltz in Tchaikovsky’s Eugene Onegin — until fairly recently, that, generally speaking, was ...

She helped lay the foundation for modern dance in the U.S., collaborating with Alvin Ailey as well as her husband, Geoffrey ...

Of the big performing-arts institutions that emerged from lockdown last season, the Metropolitan Opera did astonishingly well. Not a single performance was canceled due to covid, which is miraculous ...

Long before Lady Gaga was born — this or any other way — Anaïs Nin was forging a powerful creative identity in which she made no apologies for her voracious sexuality. Now remembered primarily as the ...

Commissioned for Diaghilev's Ballet Russes, Stravinsky's revolutionary score famously provoked a near-riot at its 1913 premiere, and is now widely regarded as the most influential piece of music of ...

With theater buildings shut down due to COVID-19, plenty of performing artists are taking their shows outdoors – to parks, driveways, backyards and even a ballpark. Here’s a look at some outdoor ...

A criticism that is often leveled at the performing arts is that these aesthetic frameworks have grown out of touch with modern audiences. And yet, a cursory glance of what’s ahead this fall season ...

The Hill Country has some of the best dance halls: ...