A year and a half ago, Marena Faye had an idea: a festival of sapphic ten-minute plays, inspired by sapphic songs. This week, the fourth edition of Sapphest will go up at Brooklyn Art Haus.

Warner has defied an extensive scope of art with celebrated works in theater, opera, classical music, and hybrid productions, serving as Resident Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and becoming the first woman to win an Olivier Award for Best Director, before joining the National Theatre as Associate Director.

BMP kicked off the PROTOTYPE festival Jan 7th, running through January 18, 2026 with HILDEGARD, Art Bath,  and What to Wear already sold out (sorry St. Vincent fans).

Founder, artistic director, and flutist Eva Ding is one year into a new classical music venture Orchestra Q, an artist-driven, boundary-pushing, conductor-less orchestra of the next generation, and is spending the holidays bringing New York a unique twist on Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker and twinkling dreamscape of the city December 9th.

Créatine Price took a moment with us to share what it’s like to be home to perform their upcoming show The Drag Messiah, a gay twist on Handel’s iconic masterpiece, with Chamber Queer and hopes for the future.

While other performing arts industries make headway in diversity, equity, and inclusion, opera has a unique challenge from its systemic history that has seemingly been engraved in its art and has taken longer to shed itself from.