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 ...

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

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 ...

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

“I had come to Poland to seek out the story of Count Rzewuski and other Polish adventurers who had traveled from the Ukrainian farmlands and Russian steppes south to the Levant and the Arabian ...