ARLINGTON, VA; SEPTEMBER 27, 2021 – Martin Scorsese reveals the fascinating story of a one-night-only performance in 1826 at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral—Scorsese’s home church in Little Italy—that ...

“I prefer to think of myself as a primitive, rather like the primitive cave artists who drew without training,” McCartney said at the time. “Hopefully, the combination of Carl’s classical training and ...

Bach’s Magnificat is the most concise of his major choral works but contains some of the composer’s most profound religious expression, from the intimate to the fervent.Conducting from a seated ...

Signature Theatre is presenting Oratorio For Living Things, written by Heather Christian and directed by Lee Sunday Evans. Performances will run through November 16. The cast includes Kirstyn Cae ...

Heather Christian, the playwright and composer whose acclaimed, genre-defying 2022 musical Oratorio For Living Things is currently being staged in a revival Off Broadway, and Garrett Bradley, the ...

First, let’s hear it for the highly effective elements: Christian’s music is both sumptuous and austere. That’s to say, its presentation as a modern-day oratorio sounds exactly right, certainly as ...

El Centro Su Teatro resident playwright Tony Garcia and musical director Daniel Valdez gathered oral histories from residents displaced 40 years ago to make room for the Auraria campus. Their ...

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ALBANY – When the curtain went up on Nacre's performance of Charles Weidman's "Christmas Oratorio" Saturday afternoon at The Egg, projections of stained glass windows formed a backdrop for the dancers ...

The last time that the composer Heather Christian’s “Oratorio for Living Things” appeared on a New York stage, it was spring of 2022, and the act of gathering still felt a little brave. We had waited ...