Travel

Kim Cattrall Flirts, Clowns in ‘Private Lives’: London Stage Kim Cattrall transformed the monochromatic role of Samantha in “Sex and the City” into a portrayal of sexual self-confidence. Maybe any actress with a certain va-va-voom could have done the same. Va-va-voom will never be enough to tackle Noel Coward’s “Private Lives.”

See Nicole Kidman Sulk, Hear Chopin Play: Great London Weekend Steal a glimpse of a sulking Nicole Kidman as the Friday stop on your weekend in London.

Phantom’s Love Gets Messy in Sequel ‘Love Never Dies’: Review The Phantom of the Opera, last seen fleeing from the bowels of the Paris opera, has resurfaced as an impresario in Coney Island.

Sewage Workers, Red Flags Kick Off Paris ‘Ring’: Review A revolution-tinged “Das Rheingold” opened the first complete cycle of Wagner’s “Ring” to be staged at the Paris Opera since 1955.

Medvedev, Sarkozy Celebrate ‘Holy Russia’ at Louvre: Review Some 20 years ago, the new exhibition at the Louvre in Paris would have been unthinkable.

Joss Stone Vamps, Kahlo Meets Wrestlers: Great Brussels Weekend Shed your weekly woes with a soothing dose of minimalist culture at a Friday “vernissage,” or opening, in the Wiels arts center, Brussels.