As K-Pop and Spanish rappers start to climb the charts, the utter stranglehold of English over pop is starting to relax a little. "The idea that the [English-speaking] public would listen on…
Three years ago, English National Ballet presented an evening of work allby female choreographers, She Said. It was an uneven programme but a brave artistic choice, and those courageous fema…
Sadler's Wells, LondonIbsen gets an urgent retelling, Kahlo dances with a monkey and Bausch's masterwork is back in Tamara Rojo's stellar triple bill
In 2016, English National Ballet directo…
"Four years ago, the news that the Oregon Shakespeare Festival had commissioned modern English 'translations' of all of Shakespeare's plays drew headlines, and no small alarm, from purists w…
The London company has held its highest ticket price at £125 and cut its lowest to £10 and is expanding its free-balcony-seats-for-under-18s from Saturdays to Fridays and opening night…
Ah, "Madama Butterfly," Puccini's classic operatic tale about a Japanese geisha and an American Navy lieutenant who meet in Nagasaki and fall in love as they sing to each other "" in Italian…
"[The company's] figures showed it had brought thousands of new people to the art form during recent months. It has achieved 75 per cent capacity in its 2000-plus seater Coliseum with 47 per…
"Since the point was raised, it seemed to me that Mrs. Rainier was too good, and that for this reason she might miss the secret English bull's-eye that can only be hit by guns sighted to a 9…
Turns out that the watchers on the wall " that is, the members of English Heritage who staff Roman sites along Hadrian's Wall, the border with Scotland " have been answering Game of Thrones …
With the critically-acclaimed Equus and The Funeral Director currently touring the UK, English Touring Theatre today announces the full tour dates for its Autumn 2019 Season. The company, in…
It took a little over 120 years. But"thanks to Theater J"Jacob Gordin's wildly popular Yiddish drama, celebrated as The Jewish Queen Lear, has made it onto the English-language stage. The pl…
His birthday was a couple of days ago, but I couldn't squeeze it into a very busy blogging day, and besides what better day than St. Patrick's to appreciate a man named J. Pat O'Malley (1904…
"The company, led by Tamara Rojo, has hired Andy Reynolds in the new role, which will see him lead a team comprising a company doctor, physiotherapist, and a masseur and acupuncturist. Reyno…
The reason is inertia, basically: "[English] got there first, and there is no major expansion of globalization to shift the balance to another language. Today there are far more non-native E…
