’Hamnet’ Is Coming to Netflix. Here’s What the Movie Gets Right About William Shakespeare’s Family.

Hamnet’ is a family drama about William Shakespeare, his wife Agnes, and their children. Learn how the movie blends fact and ...

James Norton to Take on ‘Hamlet’ in Thomas Ostermeier’s Next West End Production

The British actor, star of 'Happy Valley' and 'House of the Dragon,' says the prospect of playing Shakespeare's ...

Hamlet v Hamlet: Izzard’s show clashes with Queensland Ballet in Brisbane

Two unconventional Hamlets are happening in Brisbane theatres simultaneously. We brought their makers together to compare ...
Variety

Sting Brings Reimagined ‘The Last Ship’ to London’s West End

Sting will star in a newly adapted production of his musical “The Last Ship” at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in London from Sept. 22 to Oct. 3, produced by Karl Sydow, with Barney Norris contributing a ...
Vulture

Why the Metropolitan Opera Needed a Saudi Lifeline

Peter Gelb (standing) at a gala honoring Daisy Soros, seated with her son Jeffrey. Photo: Jenny Gorman/Met Opera “It was not a difficult decision,” Metropolitan Opera general manager Peter Gelb says ...
Forbes

Met Opera’s ‘El Último Sueño De Frida Y Diego’ Star Nils Wanderer On Travel, Opera And Favorite Hometown Spot

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover travel trends and wellness and family travel. Countertenors are considered the rarest male voice type in classical music, ...
WLRN

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera dream together again at Met Opera

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera have inspired books, films and plays with their evocative paintings and passionate, turbulent relationship. Now, the 20th century Mexican painters are protagonists in an ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Sing Themselves to Death in an Opera at the Met Inspired by Greek Mythology and Mexican Magical Realism

Carlos Álvarez as Diego Rivera and Isabel Leonard as Frida Kahlo in El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego Marty Sohl / Met Opera Frida Kahlo is rising from the dead at the Metropolitan Opera. The New York ...
Seattle Times

Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera reunite on Day of the Dead in new Met Opera production

Racked by unrelenting pain, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo wrote in her diary shortly before she died: “I joyfully await the exit — and hope never to return.” Yet return she does — if only briefly — on ...
Gothamist

Met Opera patrons warned of measles exposure after La Bohème matinee

Opera lovers who caught a matinee of La Bohème at the Metropolitan Opera House last month later received emails from the Met Opera letting them know that one of their fellow attendees had measles, the ...
Wall Street Journal

Met Opera’s Saudi Deal Collapses Over Iran War

A rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera in New York last year.Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images The economic fallout from the Iran war has extended to a planned Saudi funding deal for New York's ...