Park ICM Orchestra Christmas Concert Set For Next Month
by Stephi Wild - Nov 13, 2025
The Park University International Center for Music Orchestra will conclude the 2025 portion of the ICM's 2025-26 concert season with its fifth annual “Intimate Christmas with the ICM Orchestra” event.
Review: THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW at Arkansas Museum Of Fine Arts in Little Rock
by Theresa Bertram - Oct 24, 2025
Ballet Arkansas once again proved that storytelling through movement can be just as chilling and evocative as any spoken tale with The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which haunted the Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts October 9–12. Choreographed by the ever-brilliant Michael Fothergill, this adaptation of Washington Irving’s ghostly classic mesmerized audiences with an intoxicating blend of grace, suspense, and gothic beauty—all set to an exquisite score featuring music by Dimitri Shostakovich, Francis Poulenc, Alfred Schnittke, Benjamin Britten, and Arnold Schoenberg.
Interview: 'It Has To Be Fresh”: Director and Choreographer Lynne Hockney on Reviving Sir Peter Hall's Iconic A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM at Glyndebourne
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Oct 22, 2025
Celebrated choreographer and director Lynne Hockney has been involved in Sir Peter Hall’s iconic version of Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Glyndebourne since 2001. Now playing for the first time in the venue’s Autumn season, the production has been revived regularly since its premiere in 1981, bringing Shakespeare’s enchanting story of magic and mayhem to life. BroadwayWorld spoke to Hockney about her long association with the production, Sir Peter Hall’s enduring vision and how no one involved in the production is more important than anyone else.
Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Glyndebourne
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Oct 20, 2025
Sir Peter Hall's iconic production of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream has achieved legendary status since its premiere in 1981. In 2025, it has lost none of its magic, with the Glyndebourne audience still wide-eyed at the visual feast on stage.
Photos: English National Opera's ALBERT HERRING
by Stephi Wild - Oct 14, 2025
Production photos have been released for English National Opera's Albert Herring. Performances run 13, 16 October at the London Coliseum and 21, 22 October at Lowry, Salford. Check out the photos here!
Review: THE TURN OF THE SCREW: THE MUSICAL at Creative Cauldron
by David Friscic - Oct 8, 2025
The directing, composing, and writing team of the talented Matt Conner and Stephen Gregory Smith are presenting an intriguing revival of their 2015 world premiere of their intense and enigmatically ambitious production of The Turn of the Screw: The Musical. This adaptation from the acclaimed author Henry James’ novella—The Turn of the Screw, is highly provocative and moves along swiftly in a highly coiled and compressed eighty-minutes in the intimacy of the Creative Cauldron Theatre space.
Experiential Orchestra Announces 2025"2026 Season ORIGINS
by A.A. Cristi - Sep 23, 2025
The GRAMMY-winning Experiential Orchestra, led by James Blachly, has announced its 2025–2026 season Origins. Highlights include a climate-focused ocean program at All Souls, the U.S. premieres of Arvo Pärt works at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, concerts in the Cathedral’s Crypt, and the return of Brad Balliett’s A Field Guide to Imaginary Birds in Prospect Park.
Review: Lincoln Center’s Festival Orchestra Concert Covered the Globe, from Paris to Patagonia
by Richard Sasanow - Aug 10, 2025
Maestro Karen Kamensek opened the Lincoln Center Festival Orchestra’s concert at Geffen Hall—“Paris to Patagonia”—with some interesting introductory remarks that almost sounded like an audition for the Philharmonic’s storied Young People’s Concerts. While fascinating in their own way, they didn’t quite prepare us for what the program really had in store for us.