We are still in shock over the sudden death of Aussie legend Jon English. Born in 1949, he passed away on March 9 2016, just two weeks shy of his 67th birthday. This beautiful piece, penn…
Members of the chorus will stage a strike during the first act of the March 18 performance of Philip Glass's "Akhnaten."
'Good ol' Jon' will be forever remembered as the larger-than-life performer who brought rock'n'roll magnetism to Australian stagesAustralian singer Jon English dies at 66Jon was the giant am…
Veteran playwright Edward Bond has struck out at the state of English theatre, claiming it is patronising, childish and serves no function.
Chorus members from English National Opera are poised for strike action over a proposed 25% cut to their pay. They are being
English Touring Theatre has teamed up with charity Stage One to create a new apprenticeship programme for theatre producers. The scheme will
By Emily Hardy Chris Goode and Company and Battersea Arts Centre present Every One by Jo Clifford – a take on the medieval morality play Everyman. Clifford's exploration of grief and a…
Evelyn Waugh's classic novel has been adapted by Bryony Lavery
Coliseum, LondonThe junior soloist dances like an international star in this luminous, outrageous, orientalist rompIn Le Corsaire, ballet often veers closer to music hall than art. Its pirat…
With this excellent volume, Robert Tombs offers further proof that there should be no variance between good history and good writing.
Theatre503 executive director Jeremy Woodhouse is to leave the venue to join English Touring Theatre as executive producer. Woodhouse became the first
Lyttelton theatre, LondonMorals, sexual politics and hypocrisy are the big themes in this tragic psychological portrait of a man for whom ideals matter more than individuals Harley Granville…
By Doug Mayo Glenn Close was photographed on the stage of the London Coliseum this week ahead of her appearance as faded screen star Norma Desmond in a semi-staged production of Andrew Lloyd…
First Cinderellaand now a real-life mermaid Variety writes that CINDERELLA's Lily James will play 'Gertrude Ederle' -- the first woman to swim across the English Channel -- in the upcoming b…
Romeo and Juliet is, of course, one of (probably the) most famous love stories ever told. It seems then a fitting subject for a ballet and I was excited to see how English National Ballet wo…
Four actresses, each taking a turn in the spotlight, portray Elizabeth I, using the queen's own letters, prayers and speeches.
A Cambridge academic claims to have found the first use of a 'brilliant innovation' that has endured as a mark of incomplete speechOne of the earliest examples of the ellipsis, that tantalis…
NEW YORK " When Belgian stage director Ivo van Hove approached French actress Juliette Binoche about doing the Greeks, he told her he had a hankering for "Medea."Binoche, not so much."I was …
Bill Rauch, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, took to the pages of American Theatre magazine to explain and defend his plans to have contemporary playwrights "tr…
Offenbach's episodic grand opera is a major undertaking for ETO
Actor Stephen Mangan has joined English Touring Theatre as a patron. He will work alongside Ian McKellen, who has been a patron
The New York Times: Many in the theater community have known that this day was coming, though it doesn't lessen the shock. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival has decided that Shakespeare's lang…