Some plays are like novels. They are complex, wide in scope and epic in nature. Others, like “Mary Jane,” playing through ...

Illinois-born artist Rashid Johnson has hung living plants from the circular skylight far above, putting the architecture in ...

For the past five months, he has been the nation’s most prominent poetry critic, writing a monthly column that uses the Times’ interactive technology to analyze a single poem at a time.

"The song changes every season, and it reflects the tone, mood, and the themes of the season ... line — itself a reference to a Robert Frost poem — delivered by Johnny Cade (Ralph Macchio ...

Poetry in the 21st century is both ubiquitous and oddly peripheral. Verses are displayed on subway walls, recited on momentous occasions, and served up in giant fonts on social media, but rarely ...

Strauss was deeply inspired by Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff’s poem ... reflexive mood of Strauss, Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 brought a lighter, waltz-like, and more joyous tone to the program ...

If you’ve ridden the Toronto subway lately, you may have stumbled upon an unexpected bit of poetry in the ad space on the car. Maybe it was a haiku by Martin Gomes about the eternal nature of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Where John Wilson goes, adventurous listeners would do well to follow. Showing an eclectic taste, Wilson ...

And although his poems have a brutal side to them, there is an unmistakable tone of hope. In “Shadows,” he speaks of escape, but not in the cowardly sense. He is escaping past sorrows in ...