The Broadway musical astonishes us by its continued existence. Thrown off balance first by the talkies, then by television—not to mention the pop-music revolution of the sixties, which quickly made ...

Despite its curtain raising rather late in the year, Shanghai's new opera house has elbowed its way to the front row of ...

Erich Wolfgang Korngold famously wrote music for films and, in a sense, the 20th century was his largest score. The Austrian Jewish composer lived and worked through times of profound upheaval: two ...

Obituary by Freddy Verschaffel, Ghent, 16 October 2026: ...

Good evening. Once again, let's talk about a movie before you fall asleep. The key person last time was Pedro Almodóvar. In the previous film, he was a director who would tell his sisters about the ...

The Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera, Opera Australia and Teatro La Fenice will pay tribute to Dame Joan Sutherland at a London celebration marking the centenary of the legendary soprano.

"Just be yourself," Jamestown High School student Elyse Jones said in her acceptance after winning the Chautauqua Area Scholarship Program competition. High school senior girls represented five area ...

Many people believe that America’s classical music tradition began in the 20th century with composers like Charles Ives, ...

On October 25, 1971, the United Nations General Assembly voted to recognize the representatives of the People’s Republic of China as China’s legitimate representatives at the UN. Resolution 2758 ...

The temperatures of the last week — as I write this — have been cold enough to force me out of my shorts into long pants.

Television history is filled with examples of casting choices that do not reflect the cultural or ethnic identities of the characters portrayed. For many decades it was standard practice in the ...

LOS ANGELES — Florence Henderson, the wholesome actress who went from Broadway star to television icon when she became Carol Brady, the ever-cheerful matriarch of “The Brady Bunch,” has died, her ...