For our Art of the Libretto series, I spoke to the playwright and librettist Nilo Cruz, who wrote the words to the composer ...

The Plaza is a case study in the lengths to which New York’s leaders have gone to find gargantuan sums of money to enact wild ...

For our series Making of a Poem, we’re asking poets and translators to dissect the poems they’ve contributed to our pages.

Dasho’s fine brown face, his dark eyes and long black hair, are haloed by the white glow of the sphere behind him. ‘Do you ...

Virginia Woolf once wrote that Electra, another famous Sophocles ingenue, ‘stands before us like a figure so tightly bound ...

So uninterested was I in coming out of the closet at the dawn of the twenty-first century that the thought of spending freshman year on death row seemed more appealing. This was September 2000, during ...