Coliseum
Like attending a joyous religious service: We Will Rock You, at the Coliseum, reviewed
One of the earliest jukebox musicals has returned to the West End. When the show opened in 2002 the author,…
Exhilarating, frightening and hilarious: Made in Leeds – Three Short Ballets reviewed
Good, better, best was the satisfying trajectory of Northern Ballet’s terrific programme of three original short works, which moves south…
ENB’s Swan Lake: the rights and wrongs of ballet thighs
There’s been heated disagreement over the past week about what’s right and wrong. Is the rocket-propelled ex-Bolshoi enfant terrible Ivan…
Bryn Terfel lords it over 'Faust' magnificently
There’s a great deal to disapprove of in Gounod’s Faust. It breaks down a pillar of western literature and whisks…
Kings of Dance: a show to keep the Sun King happy
Louis XIV might have been a narcissistic and whimsical tyrant, but he did a lot for dance. An accomplished practitioner,…
Ivan Vasiliev and Roberto Bolle: interview with ballet royalty
Giannandrea Poesio meets Ivan Vasiliev and Roberto Bolle, ballet’s demigods
Gusto galore from Boston Ballet
Those who lament sluggishness in contemporary stagings of Balanchine’s ballets — and those who are responsible for it — should…
