The Minnesota Orchestra will present Bluebeard’s Castle under Thomas Søndergård. The performances launch the Sound Unbound ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Caryl Churchill pushes boundaries. Your wits need to hurry to keep up with the audacious, haunting and often horribly funny games the ...

Bluebeard: Here we are now / See before you Bluebeard's Castle / It doesn't look very nice / Are you coming? Judith: Yes, I'm coming / Dearest. Bluebeard: Everything is very bad / Everyone is very sad ...

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 ...

On December 30, 1903, the Iroquois Theatre in downtown Chicago held a matinee performance of Mr. Bluebeard, a touring show about a potentate who murders his many wives and hangs them from hooks in a ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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.

THERE once lived a hideously blue-bearded man who slit the throats of his half-dozen wives, stashing their corpses in the basement of his castle one by one. So goes the legendary folk tale “Bluebeard” ...

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 ...