Scenes from Ruggero Leoncavallo's opera with Canio, the clown, introducing actors who are seen in pantomime while the operatic voices are heard off-screen. Canio discovers his wife has been unfaithful but carries on with his performance.

Here is a rare and exceptional example in which the director and costume designer amuse themselves w...

Grady is a 50-ish English professor who hasn't had a thing published in years—not since he wrote his...
Ms Norris meets with students, goes a little batty, has dinner with her boyfriend, and revelations e...

When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego – Dorothy Micha...

Paul Morse is a good guy. When his friends throw him a wild bachelor party, he just wants to keep hi...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

After fleeing to the West in 1961, peaceful times were supposed to begin for the Striesows. But Iren...

Tracy Flick is running unopposed for this year’s high school student election. But Jim McAllister ha...

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a p...

In Mea Culpa, Christoph Schlingensief blurs a delicate line: he ignores the threshold that separates...

The Lyric Opera of Chicago's 1985 production of Puccini's opera, set in the late nineteenth century ...
San Francisco comes alive in this amusing chronicle of urban life. When Tyler has a drunken one nigh...

Fierrabras of 1823 is the last of Franz Schubert’s stage works. Rarely performed to this day, this h...

The heterosexual man Axel is thrown out of his girlfriends home for cheating and ends up moving in w...

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's effor...

Annabelle is annoyed by family life. Most of all, she bothers her health-conscious, chain-smoking, k...

La Cenerentola, ossia La bontà in trionfo (Cinderella, or Goodness Triumphant) is an operatic dramma...

Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have...

Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella reluctantly attends Racine's trag...

The definitive version of this rare opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The costume and set design is ...