Rigoletto

It’s easy to overlook, hearing a celebrity tenor perform “Questa o quella” in concert with devil-may-care abandon, just what a nasty piece of work the

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The Cherry Orchard

In an effort to make the plays of Shakespeare relevant to contemporary audiences, directors regularly stage them in radically different places and times than originally

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Bombay Superstar

Bollywood—in the West, the word conjures up a big budget spectacle of dance and colour that usually tells the story of a hero and a

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Much Ado About Nothing

Much Ado is a popular play this year with productions by the National Theatre, Shakespeare’s Globe, the RSC (which also got televised) and elsewhere. This

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Let The Right One In

Based on Lindqvist’s 2004 novel and the author’s own adaptation for screen for the 2008 Swedish horror film, this play by Jack Thorne has at

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Gustavo III

The idea of a European monarch being assassinated in Italian-ruled Italy was clearly too much for censors when Verdi first presented the opera that was

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Orfeo ed Euridice

The doomed romance of Orpheus and Eurydice is one of the most enduringly popular Greek myths, exerting a powerful influence on the cultural imagination. However,

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Destiny

Destiny is getting ready for her “best night evahhh” at Karma nightclub in Chippenham—to the sound of Destiny’s Child, obvs! Except she’s no youngster. She’s

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All’s Well That Ends Well

William ShakespearePhil WillmottRotherhithe and East London Playhouse (The Hithe Albion St)25 October–6 November 2022 It is a brave decision to open a new theatre in

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EKO

Kurt HentschlägerEMPAC/ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing ArtsThe Drum, Theatre Royal Plymouth26–29 October 2022 So many questions and

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