Every culture and era finds different things offensive. A universal standard for immorality in art may be an impossibility.

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A show at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix presents a selection of pieces whose artistry is unparalleled.

The pricey new Los Angeles venture tries too hard to satisfy current cultural trends, losing track of film history in the process

Under difficult circumstances, listening to the written word can provide some much needed succor.

Born 250 years ago in a revolutionary age, the composer was a product of the Enlightenment who struggled against its certainties

Online classical-music performances are increasing, but piecing together an orchestra digitally has many difficulties.

Dora Kallmus, better known as Madame d’Ora, was a talented portraitist who found theatrical spectacle in many of her subjects

Adam Rapp’s play about a creative writing professor and one of her students—his first work to reach Broadway—it too reliant on his characters’ own compositions.

The latest entry in the screen-to-stage trend is a ghoulish, overlong adaptation of a cult classic.

From noisemakers to imaginative drinking vessels, the objects in this exhibition show that spiritual practice could be a multisensory experience.

A thrilling new production in Yiddish, directed by Joel Grey, offers a fuller understanding of Jewish religious life.

An exhibition reveals how vaudeville nurtured the mass culture we still live in.

The story of doomed love in the French Antilles receives its first Broadway revival.

‘SpongeBob SquarePants’ is a bright, technical achievement, even if its message is overplayed.

Misreading God of Vengeance.

I expected the new musical “Anastasia” to be something it is not: an imposter on Broadway, pretending to lineage and power, making sure that everyone is reminded, over and over again, of its heritage—in this case, of the animated 20th Century Fox…

A staging of Roald Dahl’s book left our critic longing for richer fare.

Effective staging saves a play that strays from historical truth.

This stage adaptation of the wry French film never misses the opportunity to indulge in extravagance.