The composer who put Anna Nicole Smith’s life onstage has a new piece: an adaptation of a cult movie about child abuse. By Alex Marshall Reporting from the Royal Opera House in London. Mark-Anthony ...

Daring, lyrical and brilliantly achieved, Mark-Anthony Turnage’s new opera of the cult Danish film Festen is his best work yet. Elsewhere, knockout Wagner on a shoestring In the feverish build up to ...

Festen is a powerful opera adaptation of Thomas Vinterberg's cult film, centered around a 60th birthday celebration hosted by wealthy hotel owner Helge. As the night unfolds, tensions rise when his ...

Mark-Anthony Turnage’s varied musical palette, Lee Hall’s unfussy libretto and Richard Jones’s focused staging of the tragedy of a family deeply scarred by abuse drives the drama inexorably in a ...

Bill Kenwright and Marla Rubin announce that they will present the Almeida Theatre production of FESTEN, the hugely successful London play about a family with a dark secret, on Broadway at the Music ...

Thomas Vinterberg’s taboo-busting 1998 film Festen (The Celebration) centred around a 60th birthday party at which the respected head of household is gradually revealed as a monstrous child abuser.

A new opera by English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage is always a cause for excitement amongst the critical classes. Scribblers like myself as well as the great and the good of the classical music ...

Jeremy Sisto will star alongside Larry Bryggman, Michael Hayden, Ali MacGraw and Julianna Margulies in the upcoming Broadway production of Festen. The play is scheduled to begin performances at the ...