SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – Shannon Rugani, a previous South Lake Tahoe resident, composed a full-length score based on Marilyn Monroe’s life for a ballet production with an all-female team, notably ...

REVIEW: The New York City Ballet’s “Play Time” features music composed by Solange, the second Black female artist ever to write music for the company. Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, ...

“One of the things that has always interested me about writing music for film is a sense of empathy towards characters and an ability to relate to story,” says Newman. “So, in some ways it's not much ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Chosen from over 200 applicants, the cohort features three composers and three ...

British composer and conductor John Lanchbery, one of ballet's most gifted and prolific musical voices, died in Australia Wednesday of cancer. He was 79. "If I've had any success with my full-length ...

The qualities that make Kessels such a superb conductor are obvious as soon as you meet him: he is considerate, genuine, passionate about his work, and an irrepressible communicator. As he showed me ...

Ko Tanaka, the first Off-Broadway Japanese composer known for his fusion of jazz with American musical theater and Japanese musical traditions, is composing a ballet rendition of the ...

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky forever changed the world of ballet with his groundbreaking compositions. Before his time, ballet ...

Shannon Rugani lays out the scene, describing a woman rushing out of her building to console a widow as they brought her husband’s body out. That’s when the she realized how awkward that was.