Performing Arts

Canadians fully immunized with two shots of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine may now attend a highly anticipated Broadway production featuring Bruce Springsteen, but at least one Canadian hoping to take in the show still has questions about whether or not he can attend. David Screech said Saturday he was pleased...

Jasmine Lee-Jones, 22, is a writer and actor from London. In July 2019, shortly after graduating from the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, her first full-length play was staged at the Royal Court theatre. Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner follows a digital activist, Cleo, and her best friend, Kara, as they navigate abuse and racism on social media. The play won numerous accolades, including most promising playwright at both the Critics’ Circle and Evening Standard awards. It has been revived at the Royal Court for a six-week run ending on 27 July.

As Douglas Boyd, director of Garsingston Opera in Buckinghamshire, noted last week, it’s nice to have an audience. And, indeed, after the horrors of the past year, it is nice for those of us who enjoy music to be allowed out to hear it performed live. Garsington – like Glyndebourne...

Freedom Day may have been delayed – but at least we can take some solace in the fact there are lots of good plays and art shows still going ahead. Trevor Nunn’s Happy Days at Riverside Studios and Under the Milk Wood at the National Theatre, which stars Michael Sheen, Karl Johnson and Sian Phillips, are the hot tickets. They both opened this week.

On June 25, the Teatro La Fenice will open a production of Gounod’s “Faust.”. The production will be directed by Joan Anton Rechi and will see Ivan Ayon Rivas singing the title role. Frédéric Chaslin conducts with a cast that also includes Alex Esposito as Méphistophélès, Carmela Remigio as Marguerite,...

The director of Nick Payne’s Constellations has described the play’s opening night at the West End’s Vaudeville Theatre as “incredibly special for us all”. The two-hander, which follows Roland, a beekeeper, and Marianne, a cosmologist, through their blossoming romantic relationship, has been revived in London with a twist. Between June...

For dance post-lockdown, the gala is in. It’s a Covid-compliant format, uses small groups that can be rehearsed in bubbles, no sets, and is easily digestible for anyone whose attention span has been obliterated by wall-to-wall Netflix. Getting the balance right is the key and this one delivers, with familiar crowdpleasers and some less obvious choices.

Andrew Lloyd Webber has today announced that Cinderella - his new musical with Emerald Fennell - will not partake in the government pilot scheme and will, therefore, open in accordance with covid restrictions at the end of June. It's been a long time coming. Last year Carrie Hope Fletcher told Grazia all about her prep for the lead role...

The FEDORA Opera Prizes has announced the 2021 winners. The award for FEDORA Opera Prize 2021 went to “Like flesh” from the Opéra de Lille in France while the winner of the FEDORA Digital Prize 2021 went to “Out of the Ordinary” by the Irish National Opera. Meanwhile, the winner...

Director Oliver Platt brought Don Giovanni to Holland Park in 2017 and Così fan tutte a year later, but no one could have foreseen the circumstances under which he would end up staging Figaro. Opera Holland Park last performed The Marriage of Figaro in 2011. Since then it has enjoyed...

The orchestra has brought flowers to Walter Barylli, who has seen it all.

Named in honour of the most light-filled day of the year, the English National Ballet’s Solstice is a greatest hits compilation of short works and extracts from the company’s repertoire. The nine-part programme bounces from the traditional – The Sleeping Beauty and Le Corsaire – to the contemporary – William...