Charles Mee and Les Waters celebrate renowned mystic and Catholic monk Thomas Merton.

The beloved company returns to BAM with the iconic work Set and Reset, and others.

A new staging of Chekhov’s masterpiece from Lev Dodin and the Maly Drama Theatre.

Valery Gergiev and three renowned soloists perform all five piano concertos by Prokofiev.

Gergiev leads the Mariinsky Orchestra in Ravel’s Bolero, plus a performance by Diana Vishneva.

Uliana Lopatkina is joined by other soloists of the Mariinsky Ballet.

Diana Vishneva performs an evening of solo works.

Uliana Lopatkina and other Mariinsky soloists pay tribute to the legends of Russian ballet.

Theater troupe The Civilians consider the life of modernism’s most elusive enfant terrible.

Dance artists Akram Khan and Israel Galván unfurl an electrifying evening-length work.

David Tennant makes his US debut in Shakespeare’s masterful study of squandered sovereignty.

Antony Sher is Falstaff in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s take on Henry IV.

A crown is passed from father to son in the conclusion of Shakespeare’s epic two-part play.

A young king exercises his ambition in the RSC’s take on Shakespeare’s incisive drama.

William Christie and his acclaimed early-music ensemble Les Arts Florissants return to BAM.

A rare two-evening convergence of two of Brazil’s most influential contemporary musicians.

Contemporary circus maverick Daniele Finzi Pasca presents an acrobatic homage to Salvador Dalí.

DanceAfrica 2016 welcomes two Dakar-based companies, WAATO SiiTA and Tenane.

Rupert Everett captures the brilliant aesthete Oscar Wilde in David Hare’s 1998 play.

The Dakar-born singer and composer returns to BAM for two evenings.

Charles Mee and director Les Waters join Bryan Doerries for this expansive audience discussion.

Sharon Lehner, Ethan Hawke, and David Hyde Pierce discuss the history of The Cherry Orchard at BAM.

The RSC artistic director and Shakespeare scholar discuss Shakespeare’s history cycle.

Participants learn the basics of Trisha Brown’s 1983 masterwork Set and Reset with Jamie Scott.

The Civilians’ Steve Cosson leads this class on bringing non-traditional text to the stage.

Choreographer and performer Akram Khan leads this workshop.

Get an in-depth look at the Royal Shakespeare Company’s epic staging of King and Country.

RSC Associate Director Owen Horsley guides actors through exercises in verse and movement.

Astronomer Summer Ash leads this guided tour of the stars on the BAM Fisher Rooftop Terrace.