Des Moines Metro Opera Announces 2027 Festival Season
by Marissa Faith Curley - Jul 5, 2026
Des Moines Metro Opera (DMMO)’s Linda Koehn General and Artistic Director, Michael Egel, has announced the repertory for the company’s 2027 Festival Season. It will features a new production of Jacques Offenbach’s The Tales of Hoffmann, a new production and company premiere of Philip Glass’s Orphée, and the revival of the company’s acclaimed 2017 production of Benjamin Britten’s Billy Budd.
Review: BILLY BUDD, Glyndebourne
by Aliya Al-Hassan - Jun 29, 2026
It is 75 years since Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd first appeared on stage: a collaboration between himself and novelist EM Forster to adapt Herman Melville’s novella.
Review: MOBY DICK
by Alan Portner - Mar 30, 2026
MTH’s World Premiere production of “Moby Dick a sea shanty” should not be missed. This “Moby Dick” is a remarkable, boiled-down, reinterpretation of Herman Melville’s massive dark 1851 tome. MTH manages to somehow transform this dark mid-nineteenth century novel into an engaging and engrossing musical entertainment.
Photos: MOBY DICK: A SEA SHANTY at Music Theater Heritage
by A.A. Cristi - Mar 27, 2026
Music Theater Heritage has released first look photos from MOBY DICK: A SEA SHANTY, now playing at Crown Center. The world premiere adaptation, written and directed by Tim Scott, reimagines Herman Melville’s novel as a memory play featuring sea shanties. Performances will continue through April 19.
Review: FIASCO THEATER’S BARTLEBY at The Old Globe
by ErinMarie Reiter - Feb 27, 2026
There are few phrases in literature more quietly unhinged than “I would prefer not to.” And in Fiasco Theatre’s ' Bartleby, now playing at The Old Globe through March 22, that polite little sentence lands like a stick of dynamite in an otherwise well-oiled office machine.
Exclusive Photos: Fiasco Theater’s BARTLEBY at The Old Globe
by Joshua Wright - Feb 25, 2026
Get a first look at The The Old Globe's commissioned world premiere of Fiasco Theater’s Bartleby, now running through March 22, 2026. Performances began February 20, with the official opening set for February 26 in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre, part of the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center in Balboa Park.
Fiasco Theater's BARTLEBY Extended at The Old Globe
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 6, 2026
The Old Globe will present a one-week extension for the Globe-commissioned world premiere of Fiasco Theater’s Bartleby, adapted by Noah Brody and Paul L. Coffey, from Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener.”
Boston Modern Orchestra Project Unveils 2026 Winter-Spring Highlights
by Josh Sharpe - Jan 14, 2026
The Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP) has announced the wide-ranging program of its Winter-Spring 2026 season, approaching its 30th year. Season’s highlights include Boston performances of a trio of monodramas, the revival of a neglected opera, and the world premiere of three BMOP-commissioned orchestral works.