Sunday, July 31, 2016
Royal Opera House, LondonStrutting matadors, fiery señoritas and outstanding soloists show the scandal-hit company at its virtuoso bestWhen I was first learning about ballet as a child I re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01AMSaturday, July 16, 2016
When crisis hit the Bolshoi, choreographer Jean-Christophe Maillot assumed his new production would be postponed. In fact, he tells Sarah Crompton, his ballet has united a divided company“…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AMFriday, July 1, 2016
This summer Sadler’s Wells stages a season of Cuban dance. Sarah Crompton travels to the island to talk to returning hero Carlos Acosta about setting up a new company in a society on the v…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AMSunday, June 19, 2016
Prince Edward theatre, LondonDisney’s Broadway hit is an energetic, Lurex-lined extravaganzaDisney’s Aladdin, arriving in the West End two years after its Broadway debut, is a strangely …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:34AMSunday, June 5, 2016
The author, director John Tiffany and playwright Jack Thorne spent two years collaborating on The Cursed Child. On the eve of the theatrical event of the year, they discuss bringing the Pott…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54AMFriday, April 8, 2016
Guantánamo and the 2011 UK riots are subjects on which director Nicolas Kent and novelist Gillian Slovo have collaborated. But what was it like to work on their most provocative challenge?I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:11AMSaturday, March 5, 2016
Whether it’s Richard Bean’s new snooker drama at the Sheffield Crucible or plays about cycling or football managers, sport is coming to a theatre near you. So why has it become such fert…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMSaturday, February 13, 2016
With its claustrophobic style and dark subject matter, could the Baileys-winning smash A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing ever succeed as theatre? Sarah Crompton discovers a show that redefines �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03AMSunday, January 17, 2016
This year, London’s Royal Court will be rich with female playwrights, in a break from centuries of male dominance of the stage. Here, the artistic director and several leading writers set …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:39AMFriday, January 8, 2016
The choreographer performed in Peter Brook’s legendary stage production of The Mahabharata as a child. As he prepares a new dance version of the Indian classical stories, he explains why h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AMFriday, November 27, 2015
The actor and producer on leaving school at 16, speaking out on politics and finding the humour in playing a hangman ‘You’re the baddest baddass ever,” the man says, enthusiastically s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PMFriday, October 23, 2015
John Osborne the ‘young crusader’ and Terence Rattigan the ‘old fogey’ is a given of theatrical history. But there are many similarities between the playwrightsThe first night of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:28AMSaturday, October 17, 2015
Why does Romeo and Juliet translate so well to dance? Sarah Crompton sits in on rehearsals at both the Royal Ballet and English National Ballet to see the celebrated tragedy dramatically res…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:46AMFriday, September 25, 2015
As Norris announces his first NT season as director, he talks about arts cuts, diversity, life after War Horse and enticing an audience into a ‘broad church’Theatres, like schools, take …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AMSunday, September 6, 2015
Ten years ago Dana Fouras gave up a feted career dancing with her husband the choreographer Russell Maliphant to look after their young family. Now she’s back, and here they talk about bei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:04AMSunday, August 2, 2015
Royal Opera House, LondonCarlos Acosta is going to have to dig deeper than this decorous, Cuban-inflected showcase in his imminent transition from ballet to contemporary danceCarlos Acosta i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:16AMFriday, July 31, 2015
After Sherlock and Star Trek, Cumberbatch is now about to play Hamlet. It was all so different for a previous generation of actors, for whom stardom on the screen meant the end of a career o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AMFriday, July 10, 2015
After being asked more than 15 times over the years to play the role of Diaghilev’s provocative virtuoso, the Russian dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov has finally taken a leap of faith. So what …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Morpurgo is a master story-teller and slowly, in this clever adaptation his words begin to grip.
SOURCE: Telegraph at 05:58PMAs a season of his work opens in Sheffield, David Hare tells Sarah Crompton why theatre will always be his first love.
SOURCE: Telegraph at 05:58PMSaturday, May 16, 2015
This year will mark the end of Sylvie Guillem's astonishing 30-plus years as one of the world's foremost ballet dancers. Sarah Crompton meets her as she prepares to bring her farewell tour t…
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:00AMSaturday, March 7, 2015
Forsythe’s 1987 ballet In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated was commissioned by Rudolf Nureyev and starred the young Sylvie Guillem – and it electrified the ballet world. So what made this w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWednesday, December 17, 2014
Dance should celebrate ambition, not just the beauty of motion, says Sarah Crompton
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 02:00AMThursday, December 11, 2014
Directing his first musical, in Paris, Royal Ballet choreographer Christopher Wheeldon has triumphed yet again, says Sarah Crompton
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 10:29AMFriday, November 28, 2014
Mikhail Baryshnikov, former dancer and Sex and the City star, has turned his hand to photography
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 10:00AMWednesday, November 5, 2014
When the spotlight is on John himself, the work is simply devastating in its impact and empathy, says Sarah Crompton
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 12:33PMTuesday, November 4, 2014
Sylvie Guillem will be missed when she retires, says Sarah Crompton
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 09:19AMSaturday, November 1, 2014
Thomas Adès music is realised on a grand scale in this exhilaratingly imaginative production, says Sarah Crompton
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 09:20AMFriday, October 24, 2014
This imaginative tale of Deep South dancers marks rising star Ivan Blackstock as a man to watch, says Sarah Crompton
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 01:17PMSaturday, October 18, 2014
This evocation of small-town America never really gets off the ground, says Sarah Crompton
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 10:13AMWednesday, October 1, 2014
Francesca Hayward as Manon completely inhabits the decadent world of 18th-century Paris, says Sarah Crompton
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:52AM 
