David Benedict: It's time for English National Opera to embrace theatricality again
A few weeks ago I was at a bus stop staring at my phone at about 9pm. The odd thing about that
A few weeks ago I was at a bus stop staring at my phone at about 9pm. The odd thing about that
The playwright earns a cash prize, a reading of the play, and a commission to write another piece.
The playwright earns a cash prize, a reading of the play, and a commission to write another piece.
Blood, sand and euphoria - take a look at these stunning production images from the UK premiere of Sinners - The English Professor, then book your tickets!
Currently at the Hackney Empire in London, the production features fine singing
Nicole Ansari and Adam Sina star in the two-hander by Joshua Sobol.
The Jean Poiret play, translated by Simon Callow, runs at Park Theatre.
"All along, while standard American English was busy convincing everyone that it was a superior dialect, it's Black English that's been a true cultural and linguistic force in contemporary s…
Intrigued by the impending UK premiere of Sinners - The English Professor, directed by Brian Cox? Feed that interest with behind the scenes pictures of rehearsals, then book your tickets!
The production at London's Coliseum features dramatic singing, but a bizarre staging
Brian Cox, star of acclaimed HBO drama Succession, steps behind the scene to direct the UK premiere of love story Sinners - The English Professor when it runs at the Playground Theatre later…
(Ellen Gutoskey's article appeared, 2/4, on mentalfloss.com; via Pam Green.) One of the many reasons Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century magnum opus The Canterbury Tales is considered a gr…
On exceptionally rare occasions Pittsburgh hears the premiere of an opera. Operas in English translations are more common. But it’s a safe bet that the English language premiere of The …
Tamara Rojo will direct and choreograph her first ballet later this year when she adapts a 19th-century work for English National Ballet.
Nicole Ansari and Adam Sina will star in the two-hander by Joshua Sobol.
The Menier Chocolate Factory production reunites playwright Paula Vogel and director Rebecca Taichman.
Royal Opera House; Coliseum, LondonNatalia Osipova leads an unforgettable revival of John Cranko's take on Pushkin. And English National Ballet's celebrations bring back happy memories When …
In 2004, Steve Dunstone and Timothy Awoyemi, on a Police Expedition Society goodwill trip, were on a boat on the Niger River being greeted by the people of a southern Nigerian town. As the e…
Roundabout Theatre Company has just announced a line-up of all new work Off-Broadway at the Harold & Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre.
Seventy years ago, British ballet stars Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin, along with impresario Julian Braunsweg, set up the company that would
A year-long, nationwide project celebrating the importance of local arts centres to England's cultural ecology is being launched this month to mark
'The' tops the league tables of most frequently used words in English, accounting for 5% of every 100 words used. "'The' really is miles above everything else," says Jonathan Culpeper, profe…
The English National Opera has announced today (14 January 2020) a new phase in its diversification strategy aimed at making the opera industry more inclusive, accessible, and representative…
The company brings spectacle and excellent dancing to this swashbuckling tale at the London Coliseum
Writer and dramaturg Loren Noveck was skeptical of the Play On Shakespeare project, and not because she's a purist: "The Bard," perhaps the paradigmatic Dead White Male, takes up so much spa…