Most modern adaptations of William Shakespeare don’t include the playwright as a character, but some paint him to be an arrogant jerk to the Backstreet Boys’ tune “Larger Than Life.” That’s just one ...
After a five-year wait due to COVID, The Sarasota Ballet presents a belated company premiere of Sir Frederick Ashton’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ ...
This week we got another comparatively uneventful episode, but admittedly, I liked this one more than the similar ones we've had in some of the previous weeks. Right off the bat, the advice ...
The glammy, glitzy and highly energetic show imagines, quite comically, what may have become of Juliet Capulet had she not commit suicide along with beau Romeo Montague, at the end of William ...
Naghdi’s Juliet is already so absolute in her certainty that she’s having Romeo that there’s no sense from her of revelatory wonder in the balcony pas de deux. She’s headstrong ...
Sixty years old, and still fresh: in its anniversary year, The Royal Ballet’s production of Romeo and Juliet is ardently danced. With its feuding families and star-crossed lovers, the story ...
With Romeo and Juliet, Kenneth MacMillan took a middle-ranking Shakespeare play and alchemised it into one of the 20th century’s most astonishingly stirring works of art.Certainly, seeing it 60 ...
Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet continues to enjoy endless popularity, this being its third run by the Royal Ballet since 2019, but when the results are as good, there’s no reason why ...
This ballet is old enough to nab a Freedom Pass, but refuses to act its age. Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet premiered in 1965, but 60 years on the wrenching tragedy, stippled with detail ...
What an opportunity for a young dancer! Naghdi’s Juliet has always been affecting – I saw her first dance the role in a 2015 general rehearsal where she was partnered by Matthew Ball, her ...
The order of the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, directing the removal of a cartoon featuring the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, from a Tamil magazine’s website, is unwarranted and may ...
“The Alfa Junior is a lot of fun in Veloce form… just know the range means you’ll be having that fun briefly” A new Alfa Romeo? Exciting. Curb your enthusiasm. It's probably not the new ...