From Australia, the United Kingdom and Italy, here are the highlights of the 2026 Sydney Festival dance program.

Jonathan Bailey delivers a charismatic performance as Fiyero in Wicked (2024), singing “Dancing Through Life” with effortless ...

ON a bright Christmas Eve we gathered in Holy Cross Church, Dunfanaghy for the Requiem Mass and funeral of ‘Wee’ Barney McFadden. Despite our sorrow the sun shone. Barney had passed away after a short ...

Baye & Asa will preview At the Altar, a new evening-length work by choreographers Amadi “Baye” Washington and Sam “Asa” Pratt, commissioned as part of The Democracy Cycle and co-commissioned by the ...

On the first Sunday after being named leader of the Catholic Church in May 2025, Pope Leo XIV stood on the balcony of St Peter’s Basilica in Rome and addressed the tens of thousands of people gathered ...

Vail Friends of Dance’s annual Nutcracker ballet supports a sense of community and holiday cheer, and this season the dancers are also focusing on community outreach. The group consists of Vail Valley ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Elinor Harrison, Washington University in St. Louis (THE CONVERSATION) On the first ...

MACON, Ga. — What began as a somber vigil for Joshua Woodard on Friday night soon turned into a celebration of life, as friends and family gathered at the Overtyme Bar & Grill to honor the young man’s ...

Old-time crooner Melissa Carper brings her "Non-Profit Picknic" Sept. 20 to Prairie Street Live to raise money for Natural State of Being. Carper launched the nonprofit Natural State of Being earlier ...

American kids may have grown up with Mr. Rogers telling them, “You are special just the way you are,” but for a child in Gaza there was Farfour—a plushy, genocidal TV mouse screaming “Kill! Kill! Kill ...

BECKET — Notes cascade in the dark. Camila Cortina Bello runs her hands over the piano keys as though she is playing for herself in a club in Havana, rehearsing or daydreaming on a summer night.