Coliseum

Like attending a joyous religious service: We Will Rock You, at the Coliseum, reviewed

17 June 2023 9:00 am

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

24 September 2022 9:00 am

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

17 January 2015 9:00 am

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 as Méphistophélès and Simon Keenlyside as Valentin in ‘Faust

Bryn Terfel lords it over 'Faust' magnificently

19 April 2014 9:00 am

There’s a great deal to disapprove of in Gounod’s Faust. It breaks down a pillar of western literature and whisks…

Roberto Bolle in ‘Le Jeune Hommeet la Mort’ at the Coliseum

Kings of Dance: a show to keep the Sun King happy

29 March 2014 9:00 am

Louis XIV might have been a narcissistic and whimsical tyrant, but he did a lot for dance. An accomplished practitioner,…

An ambassador for his art: Ivan Vasiliev

Ivan Vasiliev and Roberto Bolle: interview with ballet royalty

15 March 2014 9:00 am

Giannandrea Poesio meets Ivan Vasiliev and Roberto Bolle, ballet’s demigods

Gusto galore from Boston Ballet

13 July 2013 9:00 am

Those who lament sluggishness in contemporary stagings of Balanchine’s ballets — and those who are responsible for it — should…