Following an unfortunate trend in European stage production, Warlikowski reduces Macbeth to a psychiatric diagnosis, with the characters exploring their pathologies in the confines of a mental institution.

Lessons from the shocking memoir of a top South African electricity executive.

Rigoletto has “all the characteristics of a perfect film noir”— seduction, murder, anonymous identities, spooky nocturnal settings, casual violence, unapologetic brutality, and, when done right, some dark humor.

In 42 short meditations on a wide range of topics, Hubert van Zeller presents the universal call to holiness by bluntly addressing common tendencies in man. His writing has a British 1950s charm, yet cuts to what is essential in a way that feels modern and relevant.

This graphic novel was clearly crafted by two men who share a love of older superhero comics, even as they used their work to interrogate the genre and the world that produced it.

What do we do when we realize that we understand neither ourselves nor our world? Anderson thinks the answer is the same, whether in life, faith, studies, or art.

Lobmeyr’s lighting creations can be found in some of the leading opera houses in the world.

The future need not be bleak, as Benson’s novel reminds us.

Although at first glance, The Island Without Seasons is merely an adventure story about a man trying to discover the lost city of Atlantis, it is ultimately about how the man’s search allows him to better understand himself and the world in which he lives.

In program interviews, director Marcin Łakomicki and conductor Markus Stenz suggest that Holländer is really about sexism in modern society and a reinforcement of gender roles. A modern European man educated in what passes for the humanities today might think so. But the deeper contexts are ignored.

A seeming joke about two movies, Barbie and Oppenheimer, is actually pointing to a renewal of American cinema that may be on the horizon.

It must not be forgotten that these people are less concerned with producing energy in ways that will allow us to maintain our standards of living and make economic progress than with being ‘anti-capitalist.’