Scheherazade enraptures the senses and consumes the soul. A visual feast of exotic scenery and costumes showcase Dennis Spaight's sensual choreography. Nickolai Rimsky-Korsakov's sweeping dramatic ...

How many of the “1001 Nights” were Jewish ones? Last month marked the bicentenary of the birth of Richard F. Burton, the Victorian translator of “The Arabian Nights,” or “1001 Nights,” the medieval ...

Bedtime stories took on a new meaning for Scheherazade. Her husband, the Sultan, had the nasty habit of marrying a woman at night and killing her in the morning. So Scheherazade thought up a plan.

Over the centuries, there have been countless reimaginings of the tales collected in “1,001 Arabian Nights” — and Constellation Theatre Company is now putting on one of them a second time. To ...

In an empire long ago there lived a king who discovered his wife sleeping with a palace slave. Crazed by jealousy he vowed that henceforth he would marry only for the length of a night and each ...

They are bringing the Nights to Sunset. A Sunset Park theater will take the classic tales of the Arabian Nights out of the Old World and into the New, with a new show opening at Target Margin Theater ...

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