Today’s New York Times (Sunday, May 11) mentioned Spoleto Festival USA three times in the national spring/summer festival roundup. Here’s what the Times thinks is hot …

In Theater: “SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA Charleston, May 23-June 8. The city’s Southern setting adds to the charm of this sumptuous annual artistic feast that, since 1977, has brought hundreds of artists from opera, theater, dance and music together for 17 days each spring. Among the theatrical events is ‘The Burial at Thebes’ by a British troupe, the Nottingham Playhouse Theater Company (May 29-June 2), which will also play at the International Festival of Arts and Ideas in Connecticut (see above). The American premiere of ‘The Great War’ (June 4-8) will follow. This highly technical, multimedia piece about World War I is being presented by Hotel Modern, a Dutch company. The annual Piccolo Spoleto festival (much bigger than the name implies) offers hundreds of additional events around Charleston. (843) 579-3100, spoletousa.org; and (888) 374-2656, piccolospoleto.com.

In Dance: “SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA Charleston, May 23-June 8. In an unusually wide-ranging array of dance, the festival opens with Shantala Shivalingappa, a former Pina Bausch dancer, in work influenced by the traditional Indian dance form of Kuchipudi (May 23-25). It continues with Boston Ballet in works by Mikko Nissenen, Jorma Elo and Twyla Tharp (May 24 and 25), the immensely likable and even funny Ballet du Grand Théâtre de Genève (May 31-June 1), Donna Uchizono (May 30-June 2) and Compagnie Heddy Maalem in, yes, ‘The Rite of Spring’ (June 7 and 8). (843) 579-3100, spoletousa.org.”

In Classical Music: “SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA Charleston, May 23-June 8. The season commemorates the bicentennial of the abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Spoleto focuses on the black experience with a new production of a revised version of Anthony Davis’s ‘Amistad,’ which will inaugurate the reopening of the historic Memminger Auditorium. The festival also features leading African and African-American musicians like the Imani Winds, a new production of ‘La Cenerentola’ and Morton Feldman’s seldom-performed “For Philip Guston.” (843) 579-3100, spoletousa.org.”