In 1926, German director Fritz Lang stunned international audiences with his masterpiece Metropolis and its depiction of a false utopia…
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Lewis Whittington writes about the performing and film arts for many publications. He is a renegade dance, theater and opera queen, a jazz-head and a civil activist.
Metropolitan Opera maestro James Levine cancelled his appearances with the Philadelphia Orchestra due to ill health. San Francisco Orchestra conductor…
Yannick Nézet-Séguin left the expected waltz repertory usually on his New Year’s Eve concert last year, opting for…
That savage hound is loose on the moor again and Basil Rathbone is nowhere in sight. Fortunately, however, comic…
The Academy of Vocal Arts’ mounts Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” every few years and it always seems to show them at…
“Don’t Speak,” commands theater diva Helen Sinclair in “Bullets Over Broadway,” Woody Allen’s 1994 movie set in the roaring…
Director Doug Hara was in the original cast of Mary Zimmerman’s 2002 Tony Award winning play “Metamorphoses” and he directs…
In his New York Times op-eds, Charles Blow sometimes single-mindedly elevates discourse of volatile topics to sane discussion. He…
Stages around the world are observing Shakespeare’s upcoming 450th birthday, and what better way to join in than to be…
The Philadelphia Orchestra’s outdoor concert series at the Mann Center (pictured above) kicked off in grand style with British conductor…
The lights are dimmed. On a balcony, a woman comes through a smoky spotlight in a blinding diamond-white gown. As…
Opera Philadelphia director Nicholas Muni took a gamble last year at the Academy of Vocal Arts, setting Mozart’s “Cosi fan…
Philadanco played to sold-out houses in the Perelman Theater in Philly for their spring concert series in the Easter weekend….