John Glover’s Eat the Document is based on Dana Spiotta’s 2006 novel about New Left activists. Maria Baranova-Suzuki Throughout, a tenuous connection is drawn between Weathermen-style 1970s militants ...

The late Andrew Porter, for many years the classical-music critic of The New Yorker, once wrote that he was tempted to consider “The Mother of Us All,” the composer Virgil Thomson’s second stage ...

From Feb. 21 to Feb. 23, Lowell House Opera returned to its historic venue, the Lowell House Dining Hall, with a three-performance run of Dominick Argento’s opera “Postcard from Morocco.” Directed by ...

The stage scrim is decorated with a wall of window panes; behind these panes is a tilted square column; in front of the large column stands a woman. A mysterious man dresses the woman in multi-colored ...

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NORTH ADAMS — Paul Lazar couldn’t get it out of his head. “I saw a little funny bit of it on YouTube,” he said, while searching for examples of work by Richard Foreman to show his students at New York ...

Gale Sharpe, left, and Vern Sutton, at a recent Minnesota Opera gathering. Both recalled the company's early touring days in the '60s and '70s. Credit: Courtesy of Minnesota Opera Not long ago three ...

A man walks into a bar -- but much more than a punchline follows at "Cafe Buffe," the setting for a new comic opera of the same name by composer Dean Drummond and librettist Charles Bernstein.

John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of post-World War II music, Cage, who died in 1992, stood at the ...

It may be one of the most mysterious film experiences you'll encounter this year, a mesmerizing mashup of music, opera and dance that was inspired by a historical coincidence — the deaths, on the same ...