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I just received the following Press Release from the New York Film Festival : New York, NY, July 29, 2011 - The Film Society of Lincoln Cent...

A pregnant Venus, a Wartburg transformed into a biogas plant breaking down organic matter, a Venusberg filled with caged subhumans right out...

Here is a news report, in German, about Sebastian Baumgarten 's new controversial production of Tannhäuser , with actual video clips fro...

The following article appears through the courtesy of AFP News Agency : Germany's 100th Richard Wagner opera festival kicked off here M...

The 2011 Bayreuth Festival opens this Monday with a performance of Richard Wagner 's Tannhäuser , in a new production by avant-garde d...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is enjoying more than a palpable hit this summer. The show Alexander McQueen - Savage Beauty h...

Mark Rylance won the Tony in the Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play category for his monumental performance in the play Jerusale...

The Tree of Life , the fifth film in the nearly four decade career of director Terrence Malick , gives back to cinema, and in particular to...

Lars von Trier has been declared "persona non grata" at this year's Cannes Film Festival . During a press conference to promo...

The title of this review does not refer to me having made the trip to Richard Wagner 's Valhalla and having successfully returned, but r...

Last week I went to see Danny Boyle 's production of Nick Dear 's sold-out new play, Frankenstein , from the National Theatre in L...

Calixto Bieito 's controversial 2010 staging of Richard Wagner 's Parsifal is back at the Staatsoper in Stuttgart, Germany. This ...

Ever since artist Nicolas Poussin painted his famous picture " Et in Arcadia Ego ," which shows a group of pastoral shepherds (pa...

For the past few months I have been spotting these strange diagrams, like the one to the left, everywhere, especially in posters in New York...

Willy Decker 's staging of La Traviata was the sold-out event in the summer of 2005 at the Salzburg Festival . That production, starri...