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Monday, November 21, 2022

Turning the Gestures of Everyday Life Into Art by Zoey Poll and Melissa Schriek

The choreographer Katja Heitmann collects people's habits and mannerisms " how they walk, stand, kiss, sleep and fidget " for her ongoing dance project.

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Friday, November 18, 2022

Tituss Burgess Plans to Bring "The Preacher's Wife" to Broadway by LIVE with Kelly and Ryan

Tituss Burgess talks about writing a musical based on the Whitney Houston movie "The Preacher's Wife." Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2HFUeAK Website: https://kellyandryan.com/ Facebook: https…

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'It's undoubtedly going to have a big impact': inside three Arts Council funding cases by Mabel Banfield-Nwachi, Caroline Butterwick and Alex Needham

In our final set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England's new funding round, we speak to Ballet Black, Disability Arts Online and Camden Art Centre Thrilled, relieved, …

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Thursday, November 17, 2022

Cancellation of award for playwright Caryl Churchill condemned by Harriet Sherwood Arts and Culture Correspondent

Leading names of British theatre and film criticise decision not to give Churchill award because of her support for Palestinian rights Some of the leading names of British theatre and film h…

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Wednesday, November 16, 2022

MRS WARREN'S PROFESSION. Theatre Royal Bath & touring by Libby Purves and Friends

A DAUGHTER OF DISREPUTE   1893, and here's George Bernard Shaw passing the Bechdel Test with flying colours by centring the action on two women at odds , with surrounding men remarkably d…

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Jessica Chastain Announces She Will Be Nora in "A Doll's House" on Broadway by LIVE with Kelly and Ryan

Jessica Chastain announces her upcoming Broadway role in "A Doll's House" which was delayed by the pandemic. Subscribe: https://bit.ly/2HFUeAK Website: https://kellyandryan.com/ Facebook:…

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'An acutely difficult time': companies respond to Arts Council funding decisions by Harriet Sherwood, Chris Wiegand and Lucy Knight

In our third set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England's new funding round, we hear from Eclipse in Leeds, Oldham Coliseum and Hexham's Bloodaxe Books Organisations he…

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PHANTOM REVISITED by Libby Purves and Friends

PURE PLEASURE AT HER MAJESTY'S        It seemed worth the money " these were not press tickets " to check out how good old Fanty is getting on after 36 years at Her Majesty's The…

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Tuesday, November 15, 2022

BLACKOUT SONGS Hampstead Theatre by Libby Purves and Friends

DRUNKENNESS AND THE DARK     The  studio at Hampstead has been on a roll recently, with  intelligent and emotionally honest plays : FOLK, RAVENSCOURT, THE ANIMAL KINGDOM et al.…

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Monday, November 14, 2022

Thrilled, relieved, perplexed: three Arts Council funding verdicts by Chris Wiegand, Imogen Tilden and Harriet Sherwood

In our second set of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England's new funding decisions, we hear from Balbir Singh Dance Company, Britten Sinfonia and Little Bulb Organisation…

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Saturday, November 12, 2022

New play puts phở center-stage in a centuries-long cultural appropriation debate by Soleil Ho and Lily Janiak

On one downtown Berkeley block, phở is both dinner and theater for two Chronicle critics.

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British-born ballet star unites Russian exiles in a dance of defiance by Vanessa Thorpe, Arts and Media Correspondent

Xander Parish, who fled St Petersburg in March, talks about his performance this weekend with Russian and Ukrainian artistes When the dancer Xander Parish made his return to the London stage…

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Thursday, November 10, 2022

Arts Council funding: organisations head into the unknown amid cuts by Arifa Akbar, Imogen Tilden and Chris Wiegand

In the first of a series of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England's new funding decisions, we consider the view from the Watermill theatre, Welsh National Opera and Paine…

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022

RSC to stage play about plague death of William Shakespeare's son Hamnet by Harriet Sherwood Arts and Culture Correspondent

Adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel will premiere at Swan theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in April A stage production of a poignant novel about the death of William Shakespeare's son from …

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Friday, November 4, 2022

ENO to relocate as arts funding is diverted away from London by Harriet Sherwood Arts and Culture Correspondent

English National Opera to create new base, possibly in Manchester, but will still manage Coliseum The English National Opera, one of the country's cultural flagships, is to relocate outside …

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Between Kanye and the Midterms, the Unsettling Stream of Antisemitism by Michael Paulson and Ruth Graham

For American Jews, this fall has become increasingly worrisome. On Thursday alone, the F.B.I. warned of threats to New Jersey synagogues and the Nets suspended Kyrie Irving.

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Thursday, November 3, 2022

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Rose theatre, Kingston by Libby Purves and Friends

THE IMPORTANCE OF NOT BEING TOO TRADITIONAL ABOUT IT This cheerfully exuberant rendering of Oscar Wilde's witty rom-com  is also a sort of political act. In the foyer a gorgeous selection…

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Monday, October 31, 2022

MARY. Hampstead theatre NW3 by Libby Purves and Friends

ABDUCTION, ASSAULT, ABDICATION For four hundred years the reputation of Mary, Queen of Scots, has been battled over:  she has been called victim and whore,  murderess and heroine,  …

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Friday, October 28, 2022

José Martinez Named New Director of Paris Opera Ballet by Roslyn Sulcas and Laura Cappelle

Martinez, once a member of the company's troupe and a former leader of the National Dance Company of Spain, will take up the position in December.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2022

TAMMY FAYE. Almeida, N1 by Libby Purves and Friends

WHEN THEY PUT THE FUN " AND THE FUNDS  " INTO FUNDAMENTALISM..        Rarely in the history of Islington playgoing have so many first-nighters whooped so enthusiastically at…

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Sunday, October 23, 2022

'It's really desperate': cost of living crisis spells bleak times for British arts venues by Esther Addley and Harriet Sherwood

Many in the UK's creative sector are being hit hard by rising fuel costs and reluctant audiences When Sarah Munro was first appointed director of one of Britain's biggest art galleries, the …

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RuPaul's Drag Race star wins best performance in a musical at the UK Theatre awards by Mark Brown and Robyn Vinter

Divina de Campo starred in revival of Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Leeds Playhouse A star of RuPaul's Drag Race UK has picked up a leading theatre award for her performance as an East German…

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Saturday, October 22, 2022

MARVELLOUS @sohoplace by Libby Purves and Friends

DODD-LEVEL HAPPINESS IN SOHO       Hard, on its first night ever, not to review the theatre itself.  Nica Burns and Nimax open the first new West End theatre in fifty years: agle…

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Friday, October 21, 2022

Lucy Simon, Tony-nominated composer of 'The Secret Garden,' dies at 82 by News Services and Staff Reports

She was an older sister of pop superstar Carly Simon, with whom she performed in the 1960s. Later, she and her husband won Grammy Awards for children's albums.

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Thursday, October 20, 2022

Vardy v Rooney: 'Wagatha Christie' play to hit West End stage by Nadia Khomami Arts and Culture Correspondent

Producer says trial asked questions about boundaries between privacy and celebrity and what it is to be a Wag A play about the "Wagatha Christie" trial is to be staged in the West End by the…

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Wednesday, October 19, 2022

Times Square May Get One of the Few Spectacles It Lacks: A Casino by Dana Rubinstein, Nicole Hong and Michael Paulson

The battle to win a New York City casino license has heated up in Manhattan, with real estate and gambling giants offering competing proposals for Times Square and Hudson Yards.

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For Broadway's 1776, featuring Seattle's Sara Porkalob, the drama is offstage by Michael Paulson and Jennifer Schuessler

The current Broadway revival of "1776" was hoping to spark a conversation about power and representation. And it has, if not quite in the way it intended.

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Tuesday, October 18, 2022

For Broadway's '1776' Revival, the Drama Is Offstage by Michael Paulson and Jennifer Schuessler

A cast member criticized the consciously progressive revival for its handling of race in rehearsals, saying there had been "harm done." She later apologized for her comments.

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SOMETHING IN THE AIR Jermyn St Theatre SW1 by Libby Purves and Friends

OLD MEN DO NOT FORGET        Peter Gill's  new play has a melancholy beauty about  it;  it's a sort of poem as the veteran playwright and director engages with  age, …

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Saturday, October 15, 2022
Thursday, October 13, 2022

GOOD Harold Pinter Theatre SW1 by Libby Purves and Friends

THE PROFESSORIAL ROAD TO HELL     David Tennant is a fastidious actor.  That sounds negative, prim perhaps, but in fact expresses why his performance in C.P.Taylor's extraordinary p…

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