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Nothing entertains like a great love story with a murderous ending, and that's what you get in "The Kreutzer Sonata" at Renaissance Theaterworks. The one man play starring James Pickering is a story ...

In Tolstoy’s 1889 novella “The Kreutzer Sonata,” an aristocrat named Pozdnyshev tells a stranger on a train the story of his unhappy family. He married a much younger woman, provoked by her youthful ...

Leo Tolstoy's story of compulsive jealousy set to the disturbing chords of Ludwig Van Beethoven's "The Kreutzer Sonata" is given a lurid screen treatment by British director Bernard Rose. Danny Huston ...

Rodolphe Kreutzer is not a name that'll leap out from a compendium of the great composers. Yet the 'Kreutzer Sonata' is one of the most significant creations in the classical canon. It's Beethoven's ...

Iowa City, IA – The Iowa City UNESCO City of Literature’s MusicIC festival has partnered with Riverside Theatre to create "The Kreutzer Sonata: A Play in Five Tiny Movements," by award-winning ...

A father of 13, by the end of his life, the writer underwent a spiritual transformation - he revised his attitude to marriage and to relations between men and women in general. In his scandalous ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Europe news every morning. When Tolstoy wrote this novella in 1889 it was censored in Russia. But watching this adaptation by Nancy ...

Chicago four-piece the Kreutzer Sonata play raw hardcore in clipped, stentorian bursts so that each song exposes new gristle. On the new Cradle to the Grave (No Time/Don’t Panic), hammering drums ...

Having made a film about Beethoven ("Immortal Beloved"), and another based on a Tolstoy story starring Danny Huston ("Ivansxtc"), helmer Bernard Rose mashes all these elements together in "The ...