English National Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty is worth waking up for. Kenneth MacMillan's production for American Ballet Theatre had a fraught journey
"Paul Bunyan" will be staged this September at English National Opera, London. The musical, composed by Benjamin Britten and performed in arrangement with London's Faber Music Ltd. narrates …
As the English language opera company marks five decades of performing in residence at the London Coliseum, George Hall toasts some of
Russell T Davies' drama makes a good case for the Jeremy Thorpe affair as the 'trial of the century'
Last week, it emerged that English National Opera has implemented a ban on musical theatre audiences bringing their own food and drink
English National Opera is banning musical theatre audiences from bringing food and drink into the London Coliseum because patrons have been "picnicking"
No matter how frosty the West's relations with Russia, is there really any reason to roll "Chess" out of cold storage? For all the bangers of its retro score, Benny Andersson and Björn Ulva…
Chase Johnsey, a 14-year-member of the drag ballet troupe (and winner of best male dancer honors at last year's UK National Dance Awards), quit the company in January, saying publicly that h…
The Fountain Theatre is now accepting submissions from hearing actors for the world premiere of Arrival & Departure, a funny and poignant new play written and directed by Stephen Sachs t…
Why is Yiddish the language of so many comics? Because nearly every word is inherently funny. String a random batch of Yiddish words together, and you pretty much end up with a standup routi…
Deb Filler's love note to the world wends through near-universal musical touchstones, bawdy humor, the joys (or not) of Yiddish, coincidental connections, and the impact of one important mus…
A new programme of works by American artists sets ballet to electronic music with joyful results
Emerging from a winter of traditional crowd-pleasers featuring Nutcracker and La Sylphide, the dancers of English National Ballet were finally allowed to cut loose in this new mixed bill -th…
Terrifying and beautiful: the English National Ballet's States-inspired performance is anything but stuffy, The post Review: Voices of America at English National Ballet appeared first on Ex…
Having lost and regained her singing voice, Collins is a serene, smiling presence in this documentary
"With characters like 'Buggeranthos,' 'C__tigratia,' 'C__ticula,' 'Clytoris' and of course 'Fuckadillia,' the late seventeenth-century play Sodom, or the Quintessence of Debauchery would see…
Akram Khan's acclaimed version ofGisellefor English National Ballet will be screened to cinemas worldwide from 25 April. The show features Tamara Rojo as Giselle, Stina Quagebeur as Myrtha, …
The actor stops by Kelly & Ryan to discuss the massive learning curve for his Main Stem debut.
Linguist John McWhorter explains the reasons (such as our language's mongrel origins) in this Lexicon Valley podcast.
The "world's first novel" is an epic quest, full of monsters and trials by combat - and kids who grew up on Marvel, Star Wars, and video games really get it.
Daniel Kramer directs La Traviata, his first production for ENO after becoming the company's artistic director (playing until 13 April 2018). Here's what critics have been making of it…
Yvan Alagbé: "What I'm interested in is work that renders visible what has previously been invisible. ...But you need to look long and hard before that can happen."
Linguist John McWhorter gives a rundown of what we know about how Washington, Jefferson, Adams, Franklin, and their fellow spoke. (podcast)