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"[In] Leicester's arts and museums service … four posts will be scrapped as part of a complete reshuffle of the department." Five vacant positions were also eliminated. The savings: £32…
One of two major works that he is directing as part of English Touring Opera's spring tour, James Conway's Idomeneo is a
Of course, translating isn't only the business of people who get paid to do it. Around 300 languages are used daily in London, and New York may be home to as many as 800, according to the En…
When Verizon wanted to speak to viewers of the recent Oscars broadcast in Spanish, ABC had to change its rules to make it happen. Now the Disney-owned network is willing to do it again. The …
"According to research commissioned by the Man Booker International (MBI) prize from Nielsen Book, overall sales of translated fiction in the UK were up last year by 5.5%, with more than 2.6…
Love London Love Culture rounds up the reviews for Max Webster's production of Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow.
At the Embassy Ball, wealthy widow, Hanna Glawari, leads her society suitors on a merry dance. But how will she win Danilo who counts her riches worthless Let's see what the critics had to s…
The Max Webster"helmed staging of the Franz Lehár operetta opened March 1 at the London Coliseum.
The opera company said the move had been prompted by a desire to "give audiences even more choice in the new season", which will be announced in April. "This confirms ENO's commitment to sin…
There have been a few previous devices developed using gloves with motion sensors, and a team at MSU has invented a new one using an internal camera and deep-learning AI software. But many i…
Akram Khan's highly collaborative and unorthodox reimagining of the classic ballet has yielded a modern masterpiece.
In a new production at ACT in Seattle, Juliet will speak English while Romeo will sign. (Interpreters will translate other roles' lines into ASL.) In a process involving several steps, Shake…
In ACT Theatre's "Romeo + Juliet," Joshua Castille, as Romeo, will discourse primarily through American Sign Language (ASL). Gabriella O' Fallon, as Juliet, will deliver her lines in spoken …
Few productions at the Harris Theater have been more highly anticipated than the North American premiere of English National Ballet's "Giselle." Running Feb. 28-Mar. 2, the tour of this firs…
“An annual statistical report, published on Tuesday by Arts Council England (ACE), showed slow progress in representation of people from a black and minority ethnic (BME) background, a…
English has lost more students than other subjects. Undergraduate enrolments on English degrees have also fallen: from an all-time high of around 51,000 in 2011/12 to 39,000 last year, altho…
Although Anthony Powell's stock has gone down since he died in 2000, I hope that this new biography will spark interest in A Dance to the Music of Time.
The post Book Review: Anthony Powell …
In 2013, Olivier-winning playwright Jessica Swale wrote a play about the life of actress Nell Gwynn, one of the first women to trod the English stage, and who became a celebrated actress dur…
Due to uncertainty over what visa and employment regulations will be in place after March 29, “the English Theatre of Hamburg said it was only interested in seeing actors who held a pa…
“The proliferation of English words on display at the book fair, where the ‘scène YA’ was set to feature ‘Le Live’, a ‘Bookroom’, a ‘photoboo…
A German theatre has declared it will be not considering British actors when casting its next production, sparking fresh fears over Brexit’s
Stuart Murphy recalled joining the company and and finding it "really shocking" that 39 of ENO's 40-strong chorus were white. "We weren't true to our values, we didn't represent Britain," he…
Councils across England have reduced their culture spending by £400 million over the past eight years, new analysis has revealed. Of this,
“At the Edge of Night, by Friedo Lampe, was first published in 1933. … The [Nazi] regime objected to the novel’s inclusion of homoerotic content, and its depiction of an interr…
