Full Cast Set For ROAD at Royal Exchange Theatre
by Stephi Wild - Oct 9, 2025
This contemporary revival of ROAD marks the 40th anniversary of Jim Cartwright's iconic play. For her first production for the Royal Exchange, Cartmell has gathered together an ensemble of extraordinary actors.
Finnish National Opera And Ballet Announces 2025/2026 Season
by Joshua Wright - Mar 26, 2025
The Finnish National Opera and Ballet has announced its 2025–2026 season which features new contemporary operas, romantic ballet gems, and pulsating street dance The Opera and Ballet season 2025–2026 is a celebration of emotions. We move from one extreme to another, from dark tones towards light and vice versa.
Review: Will Philadelphia’s LOVER Stay Anonymous?
by Richard Sasanow - Feb 4, 2025
Even though there’s no shortage of contemporary opera around, we all still long for the rediscovery of a delightful operatic work from the archives, particularly a comedy, of which there is a short supply. Would Opera Philadelphia’s THE ANONYMOUS LOVER (L’AMANT ANONYME)--by Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-George, a contemporary of Mozart, with libretto by Francois-Georges Fouques Deshayes, Desfontaines--fit the bill? Hope sprang eternal, for me at least.
Photos: RSC's EDWARD II in Rehearsals
by Stephi Wild - Jan 27, 2025
All new rehearsal photos have been released for the RSC’s production of Christopher Marlowe’s rarely performed tragedy, Edward II, which runs in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon beginning next month.
Cast Set For RSC's EDWARD II
by Stephi Wild - Jan 9, 2025
Casting has been announced for the RSC’s forthcoming production of Christopher Marlowe’s rarely performed tragedy, Edward II, which runs in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon.
Review: NATASHA, PIERRE & THE GREAT COMET OF 1812, Donmar Warehouse
by Debbie Gilpin - Dec 17, 2024
“Nothing is trivial, and nothing is important, it’s all the same.' Conflict rages around the world, and yet normal life (with its requisite anxieties) is expected to go on regardless. This is the situation in which Tolstoy’s War and Peace characters find themselves; the Napoleonic Wars continue, but high society and family dramas will never rest.
Review: THE SECRET GARDEN, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
by Kat Mokrynski - Jun 28, 2024
The Secret Garden, originally published as a children’s book by Frances Hodgson Burnett in the early 1900s, tells the story of Mary Lennox, a spoiled and angry 10-year-old girl who is brought from her home in British India to Yorkshire after surviving a cholera epidemic that kills not only her parents but all of the servants in the home.
Opera North Reveals Details of Green Season
by Stephi Wild - Jul 14, 2023
As work ramps up on the trio of innovative productions comprising Opera North’s first sustainable season, the Company has revealed some of the transformations it is making in search of more environmentally responsible ways to bring its operas to the stage.
Review: ANTIGONE, Regent's Park Open Air Theatre
by Paige Cochrane - Sep 10, 2022
Nigerian born writer, Inua Ellams, originally turned down working on Antigone due to feeling “no distant kinship with the protagonist.” Five years of work later, how could Ellams have predicted that his modern adaptation would feel so responsive to the current socio-political climate.
Opera North Announces 2022-23 Season
by Stephi Wild - Mar 9, 2022
Opera North today announces a year of cultural encounters and myths retold, in eight productions for its 2022-23 season.