What ballet dancers do after hanging up their slippers
The sheer physical demands can end professional careers as early as 35, yet ex-dancers can apply the discipline they’ve learnt in new ways
The sheer physical demands can end professional careers as early as 35, yet ex-dancers can apply the discipline they’ve learnt in new ways
A pair of siblings care for their dying father in this precise and devastating work at Chichester’s Minerva Theatre
In ‘El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego’, Gabriela Lena Frank vividly blends Mexican mythology with magical realism
After a fake album was released in her name, Emily Portman has returned with an intensely human new release
The actor plays a small-town sheriff pulled into a spree of absurdist carnage in Ben Wheatley’s latest gonzo caper
Celebrating their 70th anniversary, the Oklahoma company’s strengths were well displayed at London’s Linbury Theatre
From literary and artistic gem to Nazi stronghold, how a quaint town encapsulated the best and worst in German history and became a byword for a failed experiment in democracy
The 84-year-old delivered a stirring set that ranged from Simon and Garfunkel classics to the mini-masterpiece that is his latest album
Nicholai La Barrie’s production carries a thrillingly timely charge, but is often overwhelmed by its own excess
Steven Soderbergh’s film follows a fabled painter and the art restorer determined to forge his works
From Chagall at the Met to Kentridge at Glyndebourne, painters, sculptors and animators have been thrilled by the total art form
The actor returns to London’s Royal Court for a Beckett-themed night that also includes new work ‘Godot’s To-Do List’
This sonically rich project examines the unresolved tensions that remain at the heart of American life
Part memoir, part feminist manifesto, Lauren Elkin’s clever cultural history hails the artists who have broken free from conventions to make their voices heard
With a pungent, propulsive score and gutsy singing, this world premiere at the Bayerische Staatsoper deserves to be heard widely
Meet the people adding edge to a frictionless world
With timely themes for age of AI, their film ‘The Christophers’ portrays clashing artists who form a close bond — much as the stars did on set
The singer-songwriter celebrates the city’s best beers, bridges and pork belly
From period instruments to adapted singing styles, a project in Dresden attempts to recreate a historically faithful ‘Ring’ cycle
But an enticing backdrop can’t hide the fact that the risks are real and sizeable
The American child prodigy honed her skills under the tutelage of Sergei Rachmaninov
Seeing the New York drag troupe, now touring the UK, means you may never see the classical repertoire the same way again
Emily Lim’s joyous interpretation of the play celebrates the bond between actors and the audience
From ‘The Rose’, the latest collection by the award-winning New York-based poet and playwright
The ‘Severance’ star plays a writer holed up in an off-season hotel in this self-mocking but genuinely macabre tale