Houston Symphony has scheduled only two performances of Béla Bartók’s magnificent opera Bluebeard’s Castle. One occurred last night, Saturday, and the final performance is Sunday matinee. This review ...

Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta, starring soprano Anna Netrebko, shares a double bill with Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, starring Nadja Michael and Mikhail Petrenko. Bass baritone Eric Owens hosts the broadcast.

A door that locks without anyone touching it, rendering escape impossible. A large man who overpowers, beast-like. A man wears a mask of virtue that he removes behind closed doors. These striking and ...

Film Review: Bluebeard In this retelling of the tale of the wife-killing Bluebeard, drawn from Perrault's classic three-page story, there's hardly an inch of bare skin visible, let alone the erect ...

At Symphony Center, Esa-Pekka Salonen recently led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Bartók’s rarely performed opera Bluebeard’s Castle (as well as, on another evening, in Bartók’s popular Concerto ...

The Neon Demon’s Abbey Lee stars in Elizabeth Harvest, yet another stylish yet empty thriller, one just about as punishing as Nicolas Winding Refn’s film about the vicious fashion world. In this ...

Saginaw Valley State University recently announced the theater department will present the university premiere of “Burning Bluebeard” by Jay Torrence. The play will run from Wednesday, Oct. 25 through ...

Tabletop role playing games often take cues from common mythology. These games give a chance for players and Game Masters to remix common stories with modern twists and explore lesser known myths more ...

Fairy tales are not bastions of feminist literature. Given the time they were written in, this isn’t exactly surprising. Some of them really stand out as horrific stories of the dangers of being a ...

James “Bluebeard” Huirt — aka Harry M. Lewis, aka James P. Watson — gave an interview to Los Angeles reporters from his hospital bed in which he claimed he would soon be able to “disprove the charges ...

The down-home credentials of Abbi Merriss are displayed on her left forearm in a tattoo that reads, “chocolate cake, steak and potatoes, fried chicken dinner.” You need to take her word on this, ...