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 ...

When director Ethan McSweeny asked Kent Thompson why he wanted to mount the world premiere of Jason Grote’s head-spinning, vinyl-scratching “1001,” the Denver Center Theatre Company artistic director ...

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.

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 ...

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