The French folktale of Bluebeard is as famous as it is haunting. It tells the story of a young bride left alone to explore her wealthy but mysterious husband’s sprawling estate. She is given but one ...

Mixing comedy, vaudeville, clowning, and meta-theatricality, Burning Bluebeard retells the story of the tragic 1903 Chicago Iroquois Theatre fire from the perspective of the performers. A love letter ...

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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.

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 ...

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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 ...

A remount of the Neo-Futurists' 2011 production reflecting on the Iroquois Theatre tragedy has only been burnished in the interim. The mélange of styles Torrence and Kays employ—ranging from ...

“Burning Bluebeard,” that most unlikely and critically acclaimed holiday show, is back again this winter for a short run of six performances, The Neo-Futurists and The Ruffians announced Thursday. The ...

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 ...

The eponymous hirsute duke of Bartók’s opera Bluebeard’s Castle yields to the pressure of his new wife Judith to open one door after another of his castle, revealing aspects of his former life that he ...