A huge fireworks display on Sydney Harbour has ushered in the New Year with colour and music, but not before the city was ...

Variety's writers pick the 50 best concerts of 2025, including Beyonce, David Byrne, Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar and SZA, Paul ...

As we wrap up 2025, here is a look back at some of the most-read articles of the year. We will focus mainly on longer-form pieces like reviews and interviews for this article.

The old and nuanced art of Peking opera is working hard to flourish in an era of digital entertainment and incessant screens ...

The Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Bellini’s “I Puritani,” directed by Charles Edwards, is “a retro move,” said Peter ...

But this has been a year above all for the best of festival planning, the sort where you feel enriched by connecting threads.

There were a lot of new shows that cycled in and out of the theater circuit this year, but here are my picks for the best ...

Chicago theater justly is famed for the quality of its actors. But which performances were the best of 2025? Here is our ...

From homegrown heroes to visiting legends, here are Australia's favourite classical music and jazz stories this year.

Strange folk, lost pop, disco oddities and, um, Dido – here are the forgotten tracks that became this year’s most replayed revelations ...

From General Hospital ignoring Sonny's murder of Jagger to Claire's coming of age on Young and Restless, Carolyn Hinsey ...

The great books of the past, which have been in danger of falling by the wayside as people read less and less, are reentering the zeitgeist.