Directed with gangsterish overtones by Mark Ravenhill, the tempered musical weight of this lean production of the Strauss classic brings greater focus on the roles’ contrasting dramas ...

The poster for the new production of Salome (image courtesy the theater company) Unlike the majority of Oscar Wilde’s works, his tragedy Salomé (1891) is not a crowd-pleaser. Given the subject matter ...

Mark Ravenhill directs Eleanor Dennis in an in-the-round, 24-instrument orchestral reduction conducted by Ben Woodward, set in 1990s London ...

You know to expect a crazy ride, especially when Gerald Barry, greatest living Wildean and wild one among composers, has ...

The story of Salome, the niece and stepdaughter of the biblical King Herod, and her pursuit of John the Baptist has inspired countless works, from theater productions and paintings to films and ...

With its highly perfumed language and lurid subject matter, Oscar Wilde's "Salome" is nothing if not exotic. Indeed, if it's not exotic, it's nothing --merely silly. And a little silliness and a lot ...

Across the centuries, the story of Salome has been staged, scored, adapted, pushed and pulled in a welter of ways, always finding new ways to shock. On Sunday, the curtain went up on Richard Strauss’s ...

When Salome premiered in 1905, it made waves. At opera houses that didn’t ban it for its obscene depravity, shocked audiences poured in to see Richard Strauss’s take on the infamous biblical princess ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter You just can't keep a bad woman down. In the case of Salomé, an archetype of subversive sexuality since the first century AD, she ...