A new production of “King Kong,” which originally starred Miriam Makeba, is a reminder of the nation’s apartheid past.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMTickets for the three-week run in London, a fund-raiser for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, are only available through a ballot system.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:43PMHighlights of the Almeida Theater’s 2017-18 season, announced Monday, include “Albion,” a new work by Mr. Bartlett, the author of “King Charles III.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMThe city’s 32 boroughs are being asked to compete for the designation of Borough of Culture, which will come with a $1.3 million grant.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMCherry Jones has two Tonys and an Emmy. Now, 40 years after creating a “British Stage” folder, she is in the West End as Tennessee Williams’s Amanda Wingfield.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMRuth Mackenzie will not just be the rare Briton to head a French national institution, but the first woman to run the theater since it opened in 1862.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PMThe opera singer Bryn Terfel, the Kinks singer Ray Davies and photographer Don McCullin also received the award.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMWith precise dancing and ingenious special effects, Stephen Mear’s production offers a diversion from reality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:31AMJohn McGrath, who was appointed artistic director last year, is starting to plan for the festival, which will run June 29 through July 16.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMAmy Lamé has been appointed Night Czar of London and will create a plan to develop the city’s nighttime industries.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMAkram Khan’s choreography informs “Chotto Desh,” in which an exchange between a man and a youth summons stories Mr. Khan heard from his grandparents.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PMThe play, “Girl From the North Country” by Conor McPherson, begins previews on July 12; the season also includes a new “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:33PMThe Kingston Rose Theater in London says it’ll present the first stage adaptation of the novels that made the mysterious Ms. Ferrante a global name.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:57PMSimon McBurney prepares a one-man show, “The Encounter,” for Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:44AMMembers of the creative team have kept the plot under wraps, but they spoke candidly about the play’s origins and what it’s like to work under intense secrecy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:21PMThe Suzanne Farrell Ballet opens the fall season, which includes Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s opera, “Breaking the Waves.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:46PMAn Italian court last week upheld a 2014 appeal won by the dancer and ordered the theater to pay her back wages from her firing in February 2012 until she won that appeal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:35PMThe deal with Equity, the musicians’ union, includes a pay cut and having chorus members move to nine-month contracts from yearlong ones.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:26PMMatthew Bourne, Imelda Staunton and Damon Albarn are among those receiving New Year's Honors in Britain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:39PM“White skin was never specified,” J.K. Rowling tweeted. “Rowling loves black Hermione.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMOne accomplished black Briton honors another in a solo show, “Sancho: An Act of Remembrance.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:14PMKasper Holten, the director of opera at the Royal Opera House in London, says he and his partner want to raise their children in Copenhagen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PMMs. Sonnabend had a long and successful collaboration with the British choreographer and Royal Ballet director Kenneth MacMillan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42AMThe Théâtre du Châtelet’s production of “Singin’ in the Rain” is scheduled to come to Broadway next fall.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:21PMMikhail Baryshnikov will perform in “Brodsky /Baryshnikov" at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in March.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMMakhar Vaziev will replace Sergei Filin and become the ballet director.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:51PMThe Kenneth Branagh Theater Company began previews of “The Winter’s Tale,” the first in a seven-play season by this new ensemble.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:14AMCross-border celebration of the Irish playwright Brian Friel aims to reunite two nations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:56PMJonathan Ollivier, who starred in works choreographed by Matthew Bourne, was killed when a car struck his motorcyle.
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