Variety's writers pick the 50 best concerts of 2025, including Beyonce, David Byrne, Lady Gaga, Kendrick Lamar and SZA, Paul ...

Chicago theater justly is famed for the quality of its actors. But which performances were the best of 2025? Here is our ...

From a Pops-backed "Illmatic" to the arrival of opera at W71, the year's biggest moments in music captivated Berkshire County ...

Turnage’s Festen at the Royal Opera House swept all before it, but there was plenty of extraordinary new music, exhilarating performances and triumphs of talent, commitment and resourcefulness across ...

With: Kayla Rae Stein, Shelén Hughes Camacho, Daniel O'Hearn, Gregory Feldman, Joseph Parrish, Carl DuPont and Andrew Burger, accompanied by Adam Nielsen Where: Universal Preservation Hall, 25 ...

Hot off celebrating Austin Opera’s 40th anniversary with a gala concert at the Long Center for the Performing Arts, the company made a landmark announcement — its first-ever commissioned world ...

This was one wild year for music — as the late, great Ozzy would say, it was a crazy train. In 2025, you never knew where your next favorite song was coming from. Some of the year’s best songs were ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Pop music was not at all safe this year from the encroachments of an AI industry determined to slop-ify everything ...

Here are the 51 best rock and metal songs of 2025! We know you all have a long, long list of your favorites from this year, whether it's in a playlist curated by our streaming overlords and ones ...

In these 100 songs, you’ll hear lusty dubstep, quietly subversive electronic pop, regional rap bangers, alt-country odysseys, ubiquitous chart-toppers, and much more. We were drawn to songs this year ...

Actors Theatre of Little Rock goes oh-ee-oh with “Little Rock Sings: The Wicked Wiz of Oz,” songs from “Oz” musicals (“The Wizard of Oz,” “The Wiz” and “Wicked”), 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Camp Taco, 822 ...

It's a paradox: Love, reciprocated or unrequited, is one of pop music's most enduring subjects—but some of the best love songs ever written are breakup songs. And if you ask us, the best breakup songs ...