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Snape Maltings, Suffolk This year’s Aldeburgh festival opened with a stripped-back concert staging by Rory Kinnear with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Trying to unlock the secrets of Debussy’s opera Pelléas et Mélisande, based on Maeterlinck’s symbolist play, is a slippery task at the best of times. Doing so in a barely there staging, with the orchestra on the pl…

Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, London Performers representing the four seasons of life – and a wide range of styles – dance to a ravey remix of Vivaldi It was a great idea: a dance through the four seasons of life, with performers whose own ages range from spring to winter, set to a reimagining of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Neat. It’s amazing to see older dancers who can bring all the textures of t…

Known for his puffy hair, oversized handlebar mustache and a love for puns, Gene Shalit joined Today in 1970 and became arts editor in 1973. He was a middle-of-the-road critic, known for his wit and intelligence.

Since 1987, Grand Performances has provided Angelenos with free outdoor entertainment. The summer concert series will kick off with a show by Latin hip-hop funk band Ozomatli on June 13.

Royal Opera House, London Prodigal son Paul Lightfoot returns with Sol León for their first performance by a British dance company. The result is impressively choreographed, if in need of more heart Paul Lightfoot is a prolific, multi-award-winning British choreographer, more than 35 years in the industry, making dance as a duo with his former wife Sol León. Yet this is the first time their work …

Over the past decade, the definition of a performing arts venue has shifted. No longer singular-purpose destinations, today's cultural facilities are expected to operate as flexible, revenue-generating, community-centered ecosystems. This evolution has challenged architects, operators, and owners to rethink not just how venues are designed, but how they function over time.

Sadler’s Wells, London The company’s centenary celebration isn’t about nostalgia – this occasionally thrilling triple bill of recent creations showcases some excellent dancers Britain’s oldest dance company is celebrating its 100th anniversary but this celebratory tour is decidedly no exercise in nostalgia. As the title, This is Rambert, makes clear, it’s a mission statement, a manifesto, and all…

The programme So Are We marks the first time a British company has performed the work of choreographers Sol León and Paul Lightfoot. Tristram Kenton took a first look at Covent Garden Continue reading...

Manager caught lightning in a bottle with three promotions in four seasons but his need for a break to prioritise a young family is refreshing When the tears have dried, the adage will ring true for Ipswich and Kieran McKenna. They will smile because it happened and reflect that, despite the hurt, sometimes it is best to part while the love still burns. Perhaps they will also marvel at the unlike…

Sinfonia Smith Square, London Tom Morris’s staged take on Mahler’s first symphony is valiantly performed by Stephanie Childress and Sinfonia Smith Square, but the result feels more like R&D than a finished product If you’re Macbeth, a moving forest generally isn’t a good thing. But what if you’re Mahler? The instrumentalists of Sinfonia Smith Square, conductor, Stephanie Childress and director,…

In 1984, an unlikely coalition was formed between London LGBTQ+ campaigners and Welsh miners. Now their story, as told in the 2014 film Pride, is coming to the stage. The original demonstrators share what the new production means to them The National Theatre’s new summer musical is all about real people, but here’s a strange feeling – many of them are literally sitting around me tonight. In a buz…

Koryn Wicks' 'You Must Be Here for the Reading' relies heavily on audience participation and a willingness to be vulnerable.

First lady and affected families in audience for highly charged performance of excerpts of Mothers of Kherson It was hard to imagine an opera with a subject more potentially traumatic – or cathartic – for the assembled audience. The occasion, in the grand and gilded spaces of the National Opera of Ukraine, in Kyiv, was the premiere of excerpts of Mothers of Kherson, an opera about the abduction o…

The theatrical prequel to the Duffer Brothers’ smash-hit Netflix series is to shut down in the West End and on Broadway this winter, after selling more than 1.5m tickets The London and New York productions of Stranger Things: The First Shadow , the theatrical prequel to Netflix’s TV blockbuster, are to both close this winter. The stage spectacular will have run for just over three years in the We…

Wigmore Hall, London The quartet communicated intimately and naturally in a programme of music by Shostakovich, Ravel and Stravinsky A hushed chord sustained by the second violin, viola and cello. Fragments of a melody played as a distant memory by the first violin, which reached slowly upwards to a final crystalline harmonic. Pizzicato, diminuendo, silence. In this captivating performance by th…

In Episode 4 of Season 6 of the Arts to Hearts Podcast, Charuka Arora opens up about something most creatives quietly carry: the fear that success was built for someone else. Someone from the right city, the right background, the right opportunities. Through deeply personal reflections on grief, consistency, rejection, and the invisible years of building Arts to Hearts, this episode explores what…

This summer, Penn State Centre Stage in the College of Arts and Architecture is embracing the idea of connection to nature, community, and experiences with performances centered on human connection, imagination, and what we discover when we look up, and take notice of the world around us. Shows include "Wild Child," June 11-13, and "Would I Lie to You?" June 24-28.

Performing arts venue takes down references to a ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ in compliance with judge’s ruling The Kennedy Center has removed Trump’s name from its website after a US district judge’s order last month to remove the US president’s name from the performing arts venue. The removal of Trump’s name from the website on Monday came just days before a deadline instructed by the center’s genera…

This study compared three practice approaches for expressive performance—modeling, structural understanding, and narrative imagery—among 54 undergraduate and graduate piano majors. Participants were randomly assigned to one of the three practice conditions and completed a pretest–practice–posttest protocol using the opening excerpt from Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9, No. 2. During a 60…

"Schmigadoon!" won best musical, during the 79th Tony Awards at Radio City Music Hall, Sunday, but fans were also buzzing about Pink's hosting skills, John Lithgow's not entirely expected win and Ali Louis Bourzgui's passionately political speech.