Russia's famous Mariinsky theater in Saint Petersburg inaugurated a new ballet and opera house on Thursday in a gala ceremony attended by a glittering array of celebrities including President Vladimir Putin and singer Placido Domingo.

The Broadway musical “Mamma Mia!” will be dancing to a slightly smaller theater in Times Square later this year.

Vienna Opera's musical director Franz Welser-Moest collapsed while conducting a Wagner opera after suffering a severe attack of lumbago when he raised his baton, the prestigious opera house said Monday.

The seemingly unstoppable hit “The Book of Mormon” has broken another record — this time on the other side of the Atlantic.

Theater aficionados will gather again at the National Theater this weekend for “Prometheus Bound” (普羅米修斯). Presented by the Attis Theatre from Greece, the Greek tragedy written by the father of tragedy, Aeschylus, is delivered through director Theodoros Terzopoulos' unique approach. In this edition, which is the Asian premiere of the play, Terzopoulos will join the actors on the stage and sing Caucasian folk songs.

American stage director and choreographer Brook Hall always wants to do something different. No matter if it is big-budget Broadway productions or independent, small-scale shows, he adds a twist to give classic works a new face.

Japanese choreographer Hiroaki Umeda has a 10-year plan. He launched a choreography project titled “Superkinesis” in 2009, exploring body movements in unique ways, usually combined with sound, images and lighting. The project's fourth choreography, “Temporal Pattern” (形式暫留), premieres today at the Taipei International Festival of Arts.

If you look up the word “uphill” in a dictionary, you will see it is an adjective meaning arduous, ascending, exhausting or even troublesome. Taiwanese choreographer Shang-chi Sun's (孫尚綺) new work, “Uphill” (浮∙動), exhibits all of the above.

Entering its third week, the Taiwan International Festival of Arts (TIFA, 台灣國際藝術節) presents three different forms of theater with “Der Spieler” (The Gambler), “La Disparition” and “Fall for Eileen Chang,” plus a Nanquan concert “Moon in Your Eyes” this weekend. All of them are either giving their world premiere or Asian premiere.

As we slowly recover from excessive eating, drinking, sleeping or gambling during the Chinese New Year holiday, the Taiwan International Festival of Arts (TIFA, 台灣國際藝術節) already began with Barak Marshall Dance Theatre's “Rooster” last weekend.