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‘We travel back to 1816, when the Mount Tambora volcano blocked the sun and there was little to do but sit inside, eat and tell stories’
The restored theatre hosted a performance of this most American of operas
This compact but comprehensive show pays tribute to a neglected artist
A show that screams out the frustrations of austerity — but the real austerity here is aesthetic
Artistic creativity beyond Europe has had a vital, and sometimes decisive, influence on the west
Dael Orlandersmith’s autobiographical one-woman show is an intense, poetic experience
A captivating new show about artists’ collections of pictures and objects illuminates aspects of their own work
Stephanie Blythe is Gertrude Stein in Ricky Ian Gordon’s finely crafted but slightly bland new opera
From Henry James’s passion for painting to EM Forster’s love of music, novelists find inspiration in other art forms
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