Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Based on the 1925 novel by Theodor Dreiser, An American Tragedy tells the story of ...

When New Orleans trumpeter Terence Blanchard heard his name announced as a winner of the first of his four Grammy Awards, he turned to his wife and kissed her. Such an ordinary thing. It's what people ...

Chen's character, played by Stenson (second from left), drills with his battalion in Afghanistan in a scene from An American Soldier. About two years ago, playwright David Henry Hwang turned down an ...

The new opera by Tazewell Thompson and Jeanine Tesori tells the story of a couple in Harlem who are forced to confront their teenage son's sudden... New Opera 'Blue' Takes On The Tragedy Of Police ...

Back in 2011, Julia Holter released the album Tragedy, an album that was inspired by the Greek play Hippolytus. Now, Julia is planning to present Tragedy as its own play. To create the new work, she ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago is excited to introduce to you the unforgettable talent of Richard Strauss, a virtuoso German composer of the late Romantic and early modern eras. His endless imagination and ...

3 Review: THE REVIEW, THEN EVE AND MORE at The Orlando Fringe Festival 4 Reviews: OUT THERE, SOLOVELA, POEMS FOR GOD and ODYSSEA'S FAMILY TREE at The Orlando Fringe Festival "We'll be almost exactly ...

When composer Tobias Picker got a call—from James Levine, no less—in 1997 to write “a big, tragic opera,” he didn’t have to think twice about his subject. Picker had been drawn to Theodore Dreiser’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Detroit Opera invites its patrons to travel back to the sparkling salons of 1920s Paris for the next two weekends with a visually ...

An opera slated to open at the Met in New York has stirred very strong feelings beyond the arts community. "The Death of Klinghoffer" is based on a real and recent tragedy: the hijacking of an Italian ...

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