In American Ballet Theater’s production, four principal dancers made their debuts in the role, which carries the ballet.

At the Metropolitan Opera House, the troupe revives Frederick Ashton’s richly textured three-act production, set to music by ...

The ballet’s mythological plot is drawn from a 16th-century pastoral play by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso. Ashton described its convoluted plot simply: “Boy loves girl, girl captured by bad man, ...

In the afterword to Loving Sylvia Plath, a book detailing the abuse that Plath suffered at the hands of her husband, the poet ...

Loving Sylvia Plath, subtitled “A Reclamation”, by Emily Van Duyne, is a case study from this genre, a bold and idiosyncratic volume that takes the traditional reader of Ariel into a world of ...

Sylvia returned to Atlanta and began teaching history at the Westminster Schools. She met, and then in 1959 married, Blaine — who became a successful commercial real estate developer.

Sylvia Woods was born in Hemingway in 1926, and her father died a few days later. In 1929, her mother, Julia Pressley, left Woods, her only child, with her grandmother and other relatives, joining ...