Guillaume Rondelet was an early anatomist who founded his own dissecting theater, which was a thing people did in the sixteenth century. Wikimedia Commons Picture it: A rapt audience, serenaded by a ...

Less than a week after closing its main stage season with a familiar production of Puccini’s “La Bohème,” Los Angeles Opera is shifting to the smaller REDCAT for the world premiere Thursday of ...

They’ll be singing over her dead body! A gruesome opera inspired by 17th and 18th-century medical textbooks will make its bloody Brooklyn debut this weekend. The show “Anatomy Theater,” opening at ...

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Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Based on actual 18th-century texts, anatomy theater follows the astonishing ...

Characters in soap operas die all the time. Characters in operas die all the time. But once they're dead, they usually stop singing. That's not the case in a grisly and darkly funny new work that ...

The study of anatomy in the 18th century involved a strange obsession with an idealized female body, even when her guts were splayed open. The “Anatomical Venus” wax beauties, such as those sculpted ...

A daily chronicle of creativity in film, TV, music, arts, and entertainment, produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from November 2014 – March 2020. Host John Horn leads the ...

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It’s not much of a spoiler to reveal that there’s only one self-inflicted death in Alice Birch’s new play. You can read about it right there in the title, “Anatomy of a Suicide,” which opened Tuesday ...