Coliseum, LondonGeorge Balanchine never concealed his fascination for ballerinas. "Ballet is woman," the choreographer famously pronounced. But this week in London, it's the male dancers who…
BBC 4's documentary about ENB has been compelling viewing, but didn't dig deep enough into the questions troubling ballet " and ballet dancersWhen a BBC TV crew moved into English National B…
Coliseum, LondonEnglish National Ballet has had Suite en Blanc in its repertory for nearly 50 years, and yet by some odd act of omission it hasn't performed this treasure of a work …
No excuse for the hyperbole: this really is one of the great Wagner productions of our timeYou all know by now " well some of you may know, and a few of you will have been there too " just h…
Agony & Ecstasy is basically Pineapple Dance Studios for posh people. I'm hookedWe had the The Real King's Speech on telly the other day. Here, with Agony & Ecstasy: A Year With English Nati…
Caroline Quentin: A Passage Through India | Heston's Mission Impossible | The Big C | Agony & Ecstasy: A Year With English National Ballet | True Stories | The Ricky Gervais ShowCaroline Que…
Maria Friedman will join the English National Ballet (ENB) for a limited engagement of Strictly Gershwin, to play June 9-19 at Royal Albert Hall, according to a report on Whatsonstage.com. …
I am not a scholar of French Theatre, this might actually be my first reading of a classical French work, so please feel free to fill in my gaps and clarify my misunderstandings. My first q…
To read about The School for Lies, from Moliere's The Misanthrope currently playing at Classic Stage --and it's great! -- click on live link of the title. ... opposites attract ... There's a…
People will be able to view Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, directed by Mike Figgis, in cinemas around the country as well as on TVNew ground will be made in the increasingly competitive field …
Coliseum, LondonRudolf Nureyev's version of Romeo and Juliet " restaged by English National Ballet, the company for which it was first created in 1977 " reads like a cross between Shakespear…
Legit News: Actress originated role of Sally Bowles in 'Cabaret' -- English thesp Jill Haworth, who played Sally Bowles in the original production of "Cabaret" on Broadway, died Jan. 3 in Ma…
WE INTERVIEW Cory English, appearing as Max Bialystok in The Producers, and we begin a two-part interview with John Cameron, orchestrator of Les Miserables, among many other shows.
For Goethe, English plays were 'atrocious, absurd and execrable'. But that was before David Garrick came along. Max Stafford-Clark tells how the first modern actor put theatre at the heart o…
In Alan Ayckbourn's England, sunny country days are even more infrequent onstage than in reality. Threatened by disappointments and rain, servants talking back to their masters, and farce t…
In Alan Ayckbourn's England, sunny country days are even more infrequent onstage than in reality. Threatened by disappointments and rain, servants talking back to their masters, and farce t…
Samuel Goldwyn is best remembered for mangling the language ("Include me out"), but many of the films he produced (including "The Pride of the Yankees" and "The Best Years of Our Lives") st…
