Feature: KING LEAR at Shakespeare On The Green
by Sherry Shameer Cohen - Jul 14, 2025
In Shakespeare’s time, a black flag would be raised over the theatre to indicate a tragedy. Well, a tragedy happened just before Shakespeare on The Green’s production of King Lear was to open. As King Lear himself put it, “Such groans of roaring wind … I never
remember to have heard.”
Feature: THE TAMING OF THE SHREW at Curtain Call
by Sherry Shameer Cohen - Jul 9, 2024
Almost every county has at least one summer outdoor Shakespeare performance, but there is only one that gives audiences the closest experience to see Shakespeare performed at The Globe just outside London. Drum roll, please! It’s Curtain Call’s 21st Shakespearean play on the beautiful grounds of Sterling Farms in Stamford.
HENRI VIII Comes to Bard SummerScape Next Week
by Stephi Wild - Jul 11, 2023
Starting next Friday, July 21, the 20th annual Bard SummerScape presents the first major new American production of Camille Saint-Saëns’s unjustly neglected grand opera Henri VIII (July 21, 23, 26, 28, and 30).
July At Bard SummerScape Presents HENRI VIII
by Stephi Wild - Apr 25, 2023
As a highlight of its landmark 20th anniversary season, “Breaking Ground,” Bard SummerScape presents the first major new American production of Camille Saint-Saëns’s unjustly neglected grand opera Henri VIII.
The Utah Opera Presents Verdi's RIGOLETTO
by Stephi Wild - Mar 2, 2023
Revenge and tragedy strike onstage with Verdi's Rigoletto. Dark and brooding, this opera classic brings dramatic storytelling front and center at the Janet Quinney Lawson Capitol Theatre.
Odyssey Opera to Present Rachmaninoff's TROIKA in September
by Blair Ingenthron - Sep 4, 2022
Odyssey Opera will return to live performance with TROIKA, a concert performance of the complete operatic output of Sergei Rachmaninoff. The performance will take place Sunday, September 25, 2022, at 3:00 p.m at NEC’s Jordan Hall.