The most recognizable film music of Bernard Hermann, one of the greatest Hollywood composers of all time, thrilled audiences last weekend as The Bard Conservatory Orchestra performed live Hermann’s music score to a screening of Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO. The audience was captivated right from the start as the instantly recognizable opening notes of screeching violins (over Saul Bass’s brilliant title design) pierced the Sosnoff Theater at the Fisher Center for Performing Art

Direct from the Philadelphia Fringe Festival now at Downstairs at La Mama arrives KINK HAUS, a gay fantasia that celebrates with outlandish dance and visual spectacle “a search for identity and freedom”, from the apparently autobiographical experience of its creator Gunnar Montana credited as “choreographer/ director/ creative director/ music/ art installation and graffiti art”. Along with set designer Oona Curley, he’s transformed La Mama into an underground disco, with th

Shakespeare & Company concluded its season from the Bard on a perfect end-of-summer note Labor Day weekend with “As You Like It” presented outside, in the round (more or less) in the Roman Garden Theatre at its Lenox campus. Director Allyn Burrows places Shakespeare’s romantic comedy In The Roaring Twenties, tapping into the abandon and changing values of the rollicking Prohibition era. At its core, “As You Like It” it’s a love story between unlikely lovers, the royal Ro