Hungarian director Bence Vága's latest work showcases a modern style of acrobatics where performers soar above as the audience wanders from room to room Imagine an empty 6,000 sq metre wa…
A reboot of Peter Shaffer's play hopes to repeat the 1984 film's magic and lure a fresh audience to classical music Forty years ago, Amadeus won eight Oscars, four Baftas and four Golden Glo…
The arts centre's artistic director is on a mission to bring new audiences to the joys of classical music. He explains why mixing it with circus, grime, poetry, and film might be the way to …
2024-25 programme includes premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage's opera Festen and Wayne McGregor's Margaret Atwood ballet MaddAddam Eight new productions, a world premiere, a European premiere…
Southbank Centre, LondonTrio who have made a career hymning those who live in the shadows are stumped when faced with an actual ghost story. And then there's the coughing … Whether it's t…
Rehearsal studio, Lyceum theatre, EdinburghKarine Polwart's warm solo show guides us through the landscapes of her Midlothian home with history and humourEvery year, 2,400 pink-footed geese …
Autumn/winter highlights include a celebration of Arthur Miller, a classical version of nurturing platform BBC Introducing, a Stockhausen world premiere " and Alan Bennett's Private Passions…
The artistic director's resignation comes at the end of a difficult year for the beleaguered opera companyEnglish National Opera has announced that its artistic director, John Berry, is to s…
A wide-ranging slate of productions include a new production of Orphée et Eurydice, Katie Mitchell directing Lucia di Lammermoor, Placido Domingo's Nabucco and four brand-new ballets Contin…
Condoms, mud, bluegrass " Imogen Tilden finds out how the Danish craze for the 'theatre concert' has shaken up Mozart"We use 60 condoms per show," says Nikolaj Cederholm, with a tw…
Composer Howard Blake and director Bill Alexander on how they adapted Raymond Briggs' children's book for the stageHoward Blake, composerIn the late 1960s I was staying in Cornwall, recupera…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonWe begin at sea. Antigonus, the infant Perdita clutched to his breast, lands in Bohemia. He places his bundle tenderly on the ground, consigns her to her fate, and…
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonIt's apt that in the middle of a dismally wet spring, a play that begins with a storm and ends with a sea voyage is performed by a group of actors from a land itse…
Fictionalised account of animator's life, one of nine new productions and six revivals to be staged by the company, will depict Walt Disney as racist and misogynistA new work by Philip Glass…