Shakespeare's Globe, the open-air London playhouse that helped win modern audiences over to all-weather outdoor theatergoing, is embracing the great indoors.

For its first visit to Taiwan, the Fondazione Nazionale della Danza Aterballetto from Italy presents “Les Noces” and “Rossini Cards,” two choreographies by Mauro Bigonzetti, the dance company's principal choreographer. Both works reinterpret the work of master composers with contemporary dance languages that evolved from the Italian ballet tradition. The show hits the stage tonight.

When it comes to Broadway musicals, you might think of “The Lion King,” “The Phantom of the Opera” or “Cats” — big productions which involve a great number of performers, as well as a full set. Come see '[Title of Show]' and it could well broaden your definition of musical theater. The 90-minute off-then-on-Broadway musical makes its Taipei debut tonight for a five-performance run.

That most endearing of all comedies, Donizetti's “L'Elisir d'Amore,” opened the Metropolitan Opera season on Monday night in a modest new production made memorable by an outstanding cast.

More than two decades after she last graced the stage in Shakespeare's “Twelfth Night,” Academy Award-nominated actress Diane Lane is returning to the theater in a Chicago production of Tennessee Williams' “Sweet Bird of Youth.”

Oscar-winning English actress Helen Mirren will play the role of Britain's Queen Elizabeth again — this time in a stage play from the screenplay writer of “The Queen,” producers said on Friday.

A boy holding a luminescent cube tosses paper airplanes from a tower, while beneath him a train repeatedly inches forward across the stage, then retreats.

Cue the violins: Liu San (劉三) is about to have a bad day. In “Playing the Violin” (拉提琴), contemporary playwright Chi Wei-jan (紀蔚然) delivers a story about a garden-variety middle-aged local who goes by the name Liu San(劉三).

Twenty-something dance choreographer Huang Yi (黃翊) could live without the Internet and isn't glued to his cellphone, but he can hardly tear himself away from robots.

When Ralf Peters of Germany puts on a concert, it can be hard to tell what it is. “I don't just sing songs — sometimes I sing songs, but that's just one possibility,” said Peters, an artist-in-residence at the Taipei Artist Village (TAV, 台北國際藝術村).