News
Two new choreographers get Covent Garden helping handFriday, 16 March 2012ROH2, the Royal Opera House's development wing, announces two new Choreographic Associates who will start in September 2012, Alexander Whitley (formerly with Michael Clark, Rambert and Birmingham Royal Ballet) and Mayuri Boonham, Bharata Natyam... Read more... |
San Francisco Ballet returns to UK at lastFriday, 16 March 2012Booking has opened for San Francisco Ballet's first London season in eight years, at Sadler's Wells 14-23 September. Ten works will be performed, nine of them new to London, including work by Mark Morris, Christopher Wheeldon, Ashley Page, Yuri... Read more... |
Dance festival at Siobhan Davies StudiosFriday, 16 March 2012What Matters - a mini festival of dance at Siobhan Davies Studios, 85 St George’s Road, London SE1, Friday 13 – Sunday 15 April. Highlights include works from Julia Bardsley and Wendy Houstoun, Simon Ellis performing Deborah Hay’s I Think Not, and... Read more... |
Celtic Connections goes (even further) WestFriday, 16 March 2012Celtic Connections – Glasgow’s internationally renowned folk, roots and world music festival – are holding a new two day event in Broadford, Isle of Skye, on March 23 and 24. The headlining artists include The Mavericks’ Raul Malo, Rosanne Cash,... Read more... |
Duke Slammer album announcedFriday, 16 March 2012After a steady flow of tracks on various formats, an album has finally been announced by the London based experimental electronic "chunky wonked funk" project Duke Slammer. The currently untitled album will be released at the beginning of May on the... Read more... |
One piece, four composersWednesday, 14 March 2012A commission from Welsh Sinfonia will find the work of a quartet of composers combining in one performance piece. Composer John Hardy has melded three pieces by his students at Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama into a work which he is calling... Read more... |
Paul Buchanan to release first solo albumTuesday, 13 March 2012The former Blue Nile singer Paul Buchanan will release his debut solo album, Mid Air, on May 21. Describing it as a "record-ette" of 14 short voice-and-piano songs, it will be his first release since the Blue Nile's fourth album, High, in 2004. Mid... Read more... |
Michael Sheen back in Port Talbot one year onTuesday, 13 March 2012A year on from The Passion of Port Talbot, National Theatre Wales's triumphant collaboration last Easter with WildWorks, there is to be a multimedia memory exhibition in the Aberafan Shopping Centre. The shopping centre was on the route of the... Read more... |
Wesker turning 80 at the King's HeadMonday, 12 March 2012Arnold Wesker, who last year enjoyed successful revivals of Chicken Soup with Barley at the Royal Court and The Kitchen at the National Theatre, is to celebrate his 80th birthday on 24 May in the more intimate surroundings of the King's Head Theatre... Read more... |
Rendez-vous with Deneuve and daughter and French CinemaMonday, 12 March 2012The full line-up for 2012’s Rendez-Vous with French Cinema features eight avant-premieres to be shown in London and Edinburgh. Catherine Deneuve and her daughter Chiara Mastroianni will both be at the premiere of their film Beloved... Read more... |
Anthony Andrews to play Eden in ChichesterMonday, 12 March 2012Anthony Andrews confirmed in the lead role for Hugh Whitemore’s new Suez-themed play A Marvellous Year for Plums at Chichester Festival Theatre. Andrews will play Prime Minister Anthony Eden in a production directed by Philip Franks. From... Read more... |
Audience participation for Fierce FestivalMonday, 12 March 2012Line-up announced for Fierce Festival in Birmingham. The emphasis is once more on public involvement. Track will invite the audience to move along a track lying down. Love Letters Straight From Your Heart will weave... Read more... |
