Bruce Hornsby could have spent his years gradually winding down from MOR superstardom. He could have kept making albums that sounded a bit like The Way It Is, the lambent,...
When Aaron Sorkin first sat down to write a stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird, it didn’t go well. “My first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird was terrible,”...
“Her technique is - dazzling, her tone - wonderfully varied, from crystalline purity to powerfully raw, and the energy propelling her playing seems unstoppable.” (The Guardian) The 2018/19 season marks...
Dutch paintings of the 17th century—the Golden Age of Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer—have been a highlight of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection since the Museum’s founding purchase in 1871....
Barbara J. King is professor emerita of anthropology at the College of William and Mary, where she taught for twenty-eight years. She is the author of How Animals Grieve and...
In 1977, André Previn was so famous that he had his own chat show on BBC1. In one episode, wearing an expensive-looking brown suede safari jacket with big collar, and...
The world of art celebrates 156th anniversary of Konstantin Stanislavsky. The influential Russian actor, director and theatre practitioner left a durable mark on the world of performing arts, by co-founding...
San Diego Opera’s 2018-2019 season will not send opera fans scrambling to the internet looking up unfamiliar titles. General Director David Bennett offers three popular operas—Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro,...
THE LEGEND RETURNS: the world’s finest pianist Sir Andras Schiff tours the USA Sir Andras Schiff tours the USA as he celebrates the works of four great masters: Bach, Bartok,...
For more than 50 years, comedian Jack Benny was a star of radio, the stage and screen. His radio show, The Jack Benny Program, was a forerunner of the sitcom...
