Dec 5, 2024 · RG Live will present the return of the Varna International Ballet and Orchestra to the UK, following its debut tour in 2023, visiting 20 venues from 2 January to 5 March 2025, with Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Romeo and Juliet.. The tour begins in Manchester, and visits Buxton, Bristol, Liverpool, Blackpool, Edinburgh, Basingstoke, Ipswich, Southend, Brighton, Nottingham, Reading, Oxford ...

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A tale of fame and fortune, Dick Whittington feels nowhere more at home than when presented in London, where the streets aren’t quite paved with gold. A home-grown narrative on home soil often leads to a path well-trodden, but this year’s pantomime at the Greenwich Theatre reinvents the title in a truly innovative way.

Opening the Belfast International Arts Festival, a second Shakespeare production this season by the Lyric Theatre sees its first-ever staging of The Tragedy of Richard III, adapted by Michael Patrick, who plays the murderous, Machiavellian king, and Oisín Kearney, who also directs.. In a programme note, Kearney describes this staging as “a current story about power, life and death ...

Theatre review of Play On! (Cheryl L West and Duke Ellington) from Talawa Theatre Company and Belgrade Theatre with Birmingham Hippodrome, Bristol Old Vic, Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse, Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and Wiltshire Creative at Belgrade Theatre - …

A new Nutcracker, the company’s eleventh iteration, to celebrate English National Ballet’s 75 th birthday, and a new artistic director at the helm… Wayne Eagling’s version (designer Peter Farmer), created in 2010, with its hot air balloon and King Rat with skull head and eyes like headlights, has made a timely exit. A very different one …

Dec 31, 2024 · As seasonal as Christmas pudding, turkey, stuffing and sprouts, Nutcrackers get family audiences out for their postprandial annual treat, tonight filling the five-thousand-plus-seater Royal Albert Hall.And they are loving it... I hear a lot of Russian voices in the audience, celebrating one of their own, though neither Tchaikovsky nor Petipa had an easy time of it in St Petersburg in 1892.

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Oct 4, 2024 · This Christmas, Sky Arts will go behind the curtain of English National Ballet's new production of Nutcracker in anew series, Nutcracker: Backstage with English National Ballet, which reveals what it takes to re-invent a globally renowned classic.. It will feature the company’s Artistic Director and choreographer, Aaron S Watkin, and Olivier Award-winning choreographer Arielle Smith as well ...

Jan 17, 2025 · The history of Giselle’s creation and the many hands that assisted it on its way before and since its opening success in 1841 takes some telling and name-dropping.Romantic poet Théophile Gautier sort of set the ball rolling. He, in turn, was influenced by Victor Hugo and Heinrich Heine. And so it goes.