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The dancer on fatherhood and the environment, patriarchy and myth – and the feminine nature of danceBorn in Wimbledon, where his father ran an Indian restaurant, Akram Khan, 44, is one of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMAs Sweat opens in London, the only female dramatist to win two Pulitzers talks about America’s left-behind, her intensive research – and why she’s writing about Michael Jackson nextIt�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:32AMThe queen of the whodunnit has never gone away, but with John Malkovich playing Poirot and two radical stage adaptations, it’s no mystery why a new generation is falling for herThe interio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMHe was an explosively powerful dancer whose grace and beauty revolutionised ballet. Has anyone ever leapt higher? As two Nureyev films appear, we remember the impoverished Russian kid who el…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMSadler’s Wells, LondonA French hip-hop dance show is elegant and intellectually robust but it never really gets going“This is hip-hop dance theatre at its most curious,” the programme …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMThe dance titan has returned to his home country, and classical dance, after years spent reshaping the art form in EuropeAt the age of 68, choreographer William Forsythe finds himself coming…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMThe actor-director’s latest film, Murder on the Orient Express, boasts a stellar cast, including Branagh himself as Poirot. He discusses magnificent moustaches, moral brooding and the pass…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMRoyal Opera House, LondonEven when ballet gets silly, the Mariinsky’s dancers are in a class of their ownThere are two processions in La Bayadère. The most famous is in the scene known as…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMRoyal Opera House, LondonThe British dancer is made a company principal after starring as Prince Siegfried opposite the dazzling Viktoria TereshkinaAt the beginning of the lakeside scene in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMBoris Charmatz’s blistering new work is, he says, like life – a blizzard of unique moves, never repeatedIt’s the idea of dance, the thought behind movement that most fascinates th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12AMWhat you go to "42ND Street" for is the endless catalog of catchy songs from "Lullaby of Broadway" to "Shuffle off to Buffalo" and tap routines by RANDY SKINNER so vigorous they make your f…
SOURCE: WhatsOnStage at 12:39PMVincente Minnelli’s daring MGM musical starred the 17-year-old Leslie Caron, had a staggeringly ambitious ballet sequence and became a surprise Oscar winner. Now it’s become a Tony-winni…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMAs they prepare to stage Hedda Gabler at the National Theatre, Ruth Wilson and director Ivo van Hove discuss a character who is at once tragic heroine and conniving monsterIn the summer of 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:02AMThe story of Russia’s flagship dance company, from the patronage of the tsars to surveillance by the KGB, mirrors the country’s tempestuous recent historyThis massive survey of the 240-y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMForsythe’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 04:39AMFestival theatre, EdinburghPite’s Emergence works wonders with the hive mind, while Preljoçaj’s MC 14/22 visits male bodies by way of the apostlesEvery ballet company in the world curre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07AMPlayhouse, EdinburghDance company Holy Body Tattoo and cult band Godspeed You! Black Emperor combine to exhausting but euphoric effect“Warning. This performance contains loud music”, rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25PMRoyal Opera House, LondonDivine dancing, evocative staging and a sympathetic adaptation make perfect sense of Shakespeare’s difficult playWatching the Bolshoi in Jean-Christophe Maillot’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:13AMRoyal 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 04:01AMWhen 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 07:03AMThis 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 07:01AMPrince 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 03:34AMThe 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 05:54AMGuantánamo 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 07:11AMWhether 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 06:12AMWith 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 06:03AMThis 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 03:39AMThe 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 07:43AMThe 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 02:15PMJohn 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 10:28AMWhy 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…
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