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Spy, murder victim, and the boldest poet of his day, the transgressive Elizabethan dramatist taps into the gravely comical troubles into which humans tumble.

A great-granddaughter of Sigmund--and a child of Lucian--has had a lot to unpack. She's working through it, mesmerizingly, on "Fashion Neurosis."

"With your one, unchanging thought, what could you say?"

"Honey in my walk, & I lean, now down the Avenue, pseudo-pioneer to a seized / City, liege to a bee."

The countertenor searches for the right look to conjure Maria Callas for his starring role in the new production of "Galas."

The Czech composer energetically explored form after form.

Golf in Scotland or the Gulf of Mexico, and how the President keeps them straight.

Swifties are going crazy for "All You Had to Do Was R.S.V.P."

Politics and aesthetics have an uneasy alliance. Too often, trans expression is on the losing end.

The Composer Laureate twins Adeev and Ezra Potash team up with the actor Martin Starr to build the perfect gummy.