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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

From its insidious opening clarinet solo, Richard Strauss’s “Salome” is a creepy, unsettling piece of theater, its story rooted in unhealthy sexual obsession. For his new production at the ...

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 ...

Oscar Wilde originally wrote Salome in French because he predicted it would be quickly banned in Victorian-era England. (He was correct.) Wilde revised an English translation, but he never saw his ...

There are ghosts at York Hall. I could feel the presence of Harry Carpenter commentatin g on a bout from the legendary East End venue on Sportsnight late on a Wednesday when I had ...

Art: In classical painting, Salome has been presented both as a naive, innocent teenager and as a seductress by such masters as Titian, Caravaggio and Gustave Moreau. Book: Oscar Wilde’s 1891 play, ...

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 ...