In the mid-19th century, Shakers practiced their faith in farming communities from Maine to Kentucky. Numbering 6,000 at their peak, they gave up worldly possessions, marriage and sex, instead ...

Winner of three Tony Awards, Urinetown is an hilarious musical satire of the legal system, capitalism, social irresponsibility, populism, bureaucracy, corporate mismanagement, municipal politics and ...

Mona Fastvold directed The Testament of Ann Lee from a screenplay written with Brady Corbet, her partner and collaborator on The Brutalist. The film resurrects the true story of Mother Ann Lee, who ...

PITTSFIELD — Music has always found a home at Hancock Shaker Village. 19th century Shakers composed thousands of songs as part of their devotional practices, the most famous of which, “Simple Gifts,” ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blumberg spoke with Gold Derby about how this project demanded a different kind of composing. He describes a process built on ...