New Old Theater Company, which specializes in re-creating Victorian melodrama, has brought an example of the genre back to life with its current production of "Caesar; Or, the Watchdog of the ...

That is what makes Bartlett's use of melodrama, music hall and other Victorian theatrical devices seem to fit so naturally in the West Coast premiere that opened Wednesday at the Rep's Roda Theatre.

Edward Glapthorn, as the narrator of the latest neo-Victorian melodrama calls himself, has a taste for prostitutes, but he describes his dalliances relatively discreetly. What sets him apart from ...

An exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "Death Becomes Her: A Century of Mourning Attire," embodies that tension with mourning fashion from the mid-1800s to the early 20th century.