Editor’s Note: As Lexington celebrates the 250th anniversary of its founding, the Herald-Leader and kentucky.com each day throughout 2025 will share interesting facts about our hometown.

This landmark performance shares the story of Omar Ibn Said, a West African scholar who was enslaved and transported to South Carolina in 1807. The opera narrates his journey from his homeland ...

The last of the five members of the iconic American rock group, The Band, Garth Hudson’s death is the end of an era.

Officers found Hamilton and Jackson at their respective homes in West Memphis and brought them into custody. At Hamilton’s house, detectives also found ... search of a home in the neighboring ...

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James Conlon will conduct that classic as well as productions of ‘Falstaff’ and ‘The Magic Flute’ as he concludes his 20-year run as music director.

Get Access To Every Broadway Story Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. When Annie's husband John dies of leukemia ...

A combination of theater, circus, dance, and a live concert, the colorful performance was meant to show off the essence of ...

To applause, percussionist Bahjat Antaki took the stage with Syria's national symphony orchestra, marking the first classical ...

Don Williams rides a bulldozer Oct. 10, 1974 as the restoration of the Lexington Opera House continues in downtown Lexington. The historic theatre at the corner of West Short Street and South ...

He decided to write The Monkey King, based on an episode from the 16th century Chinese novel Journey to the West in which a primate ... by the San Francisco Opera on November 14.