Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells, London: Can there be a sunnier personality in ballet than Nancy Osbaldeston? The former ENB dancer who has recently joined The Royal Ballet of Flanders …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMLinbury Studio Theatre, London: More tightly integrated than their previous outing, there is an organic, holistic feel to this triple bill, as if each choreographer worked from the same blue…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMRepertory Theatre, Birmingham: The term 'community theatre' is often the kiss of death for many ostensibly noble productions. It smacks of political correctness and limited horizon…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:21AMLondon Palladium: Michael Flatley may have passed his Lord of the Dance cummerbund on to a younger man, but there is no escaping his presence in the latest show. Part Cirque du Soleil, part …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMColiseum, London: Since leaving the Bolshoi Ballet, the partnership of Osipova and Vasiliev may have sundered with him going to Mikhailovsky Ballet in St Petersburg and she to our own Royal …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMLondon Coliseum: Although they were made separately, the three solos and one duet that comprise Push are so beautifully integrated that they appear to be a single work, exploded to reveal th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMPeacock Theatre, London: Celebrating 40 years of non-verbal mummery, this show from the uber-mime company Mummenschantz selects the best bits and runs them together; therein lies its appeal …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMHarold Pinter Theatre, London: What do you do if you want to repeat a successful partnership in a play you last appeared in three decades earlier? If you are Martin Jarvis and Nigel Havers, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMTheatre Royal Brighton: "I seem to live my life six months in arrears," says Dawn French at the start, adding that the show is an attempt to stop time and gather the elements of he…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMJacksons Lane, London: Devised by the south London circus school Aircraft Circus, this is a heady cocktail of sex, strobes and hardcore acrobatics. Audience members are invited to stand, sit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMRoyal Opera House, London: If the term 'computational neuroscience' in the programme notes for Alastair Marriott's Connectome makes the heart sink, it is buoyed by the actual …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AMLondon Wonderground: She arrives on stage sheathed in gold lame, arms flowing in acknowledgment of the applause. Basking in the adulation she waits for a few moments. Something appears to be…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMLondon Wonderground: If you want circus with a little more fire in its belly than the slick and soulless Cirque du Soleil, look no further than Limbo. Returning for a second season to the Sp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMSadler's Wells, London: A barely discernible figure walks to the front of the stage, turns and walks back again. Then another. And another. The light is so dim it is almost impossible to tel…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMStratford Circus, London: Yet another dance piece inspired by the First World War, Darshan Singh Buller's first major work since Caravaggio contrasts the past conflict with the present …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMRoundhouse, London: Created by the company from personal experiences of scores of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning folk, this is a show that wears its heart on its sleeve.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMLondon Coliseum: Of all the performing arts, dance exhibits the greatest degree of sexuality. Whether it is the amused detachment of Ashton, the pathological passion of MacMillan or the rauc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMSadler's Wells, London: After flirting unnecessarily with gender equality by revising the production with six men and six women, Michael Keegan-Dolan has restored the male-heavy stage presen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMSadler's Wells, London: Savion Glover is to tap dance what Israel Galvan is to flamenco: a revolutionary virtuoso, a fearless exponent of a traditional art who stretches the boundaries of th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMMilton Keynes Theatre: Boxing and dance are not especially strange bedfellows - both involve structured movement, grace under pressure and an aesthetic use of space, but dance doesn't i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMPeacock Theatre, London: Thought to have originated during the Han Dynasty in China (206 BC-220 AD), shadow theatre is the earliest form of motion picture projection. Britain's Got Tale…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:55AMThe Place, London: I don't mind being told what to think. But I object to being told what I am thinking. The fundamental flaw in Luca Silvestrini's flailing investigation into Engl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMLinbury Studio, London: Cassa Pancho's small but perfectly formed company of black and Asian dancers fits neatly onto the stage of the Linbury Studio, as the big beasts of classical bal…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:47AMRoyal Opera House, London: Considering how many cooks have stirred the broth of this work since its creation in Imperial Russia in 1890 it is a miracle that it has survived with such integri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:18AMSoho Theatre, London: Rarely has a work been so aptly titled. Brighton-based Probe's latest venture into fusion performance is an empty vessel, a rust bucket running out of gas in a cre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMRoyal Opera House, London: All eyes are on the latest work from the Royal Ballet's resident boffin, Wayne McGregor, the centrepiece of a Class A programme. Bach's mathematical prec…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AMPeacock Theatre: Fizzing like a mango soda, this celebration of one of India's most extraordinary entertainment dynasties carries all the hallmarks of its pan-Asian/Pacific Rim origins.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:23AMSadler's Wells, London: Once more unto the beaks, dear friends, once more... Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMSadler's Wells, London: It is not until you see a Mark Morris performance that you realise how much you have missed him. His last London appearance was in 2010 at The Coliseum with L'Al…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMLinbury Studio, London: Four well-chosen pieces demonstrate the strength, versatility and sense of adventure of this Leeds-based company who are clearly punching above their weight. Read th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMSadler's Wells, London: Shanghai-born Yuan Yuan Tan and Taiwanese Fang-Yi Sheu are both extraordinary dancers and it is a welcome opportunity to see them in a series of pieces uncluttered by…
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