Emma Jordan’s meticulous revival of Martin McDonagh’s darkly discomforting The Beauty Queen of Leenane, co-produced by Belfast’s Prime Cut Productions and Lyric Theatre, is a masterly

Charles Dickens always had a passion for theatre and performance and, had he not become a popular writer, he could well have been a popular

Opera Festival of Chicago is dedicated to presenting fully staged productions of Italian opera masterworks that rarely grace the stage in the United States. Verdi’s Il

When Miles Malleson wrote this play about an open marriage in the early 1930s, he could draw on personal experience, for he had shared his

A dramatisation of some of the leading Russian political figures over nearly forty tumultuous years would be a challenging task for anyone, but the entertaining

Benjamin Britten’s opera cuts Shakespeare’s opening scene. The elopement and pursuit of the lovers has already begun; except we are not in a forest. There

Though Lynne Wake’s Ashton film is available for free on YouTube (thirty thousand viewers and counting), The Royal Academy of Dance presented it (on a

Based on Rosa Guy’s novel My Love, My Love (itself a version Hans Andersen’s Little Mermaid), this story of love across the class divide is

(Description)White ballet, 2 acts.  Story by the Grimm brothers. Music and libretto by Zoltan Demme. DANCERS: Birch King, Birch Queen, Birchflower Princess, Baroness Birchtrunk with

An atmospherically lit stage awaits its visitors. Slowly and with measured movement, two people arrive, one with a violin, the other without, as they begin

Charis McRoberts’s Expecting from c21 Theatre Company at Belfast’s The Mac is a gentle portrait of the pressures of first-time parenthood on a young couple