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20May
Helen Chadwick: Works from the Estate
Marking the 60th anniversary of the birth of the British artist , who died in 1996, this exhibition includes key works such as Meat Abstr acts, 1989, Wreaths of Pleasure,1992-3 Ego Geometria Sum,... |
20May
Relatively Speaking, Wyndham's Theatre
Kara Tointon, Felicity Kendal, Max Bennett, and Jonathan Coystar in revival of 1967 Alan Ayckbourn comedy, directed by Lindsay Posner . Runs 14 May - 31 August. |
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20May
Kathryn Williams, Blacks
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20May
Limbo, London Wonderground
Summer festival of circus and cabaret on the Southbank featuresamong other delights "heart-stopping illusions, mind-bending manoeuvres,breathtaking dance moves and thrilling live music from a coterie... |
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20May
Sylvie Guillem, 6000 Miles Away, Sadler's Wells
20-25 May: The great ballerina Sylvie Guillem returns with her critically lauded evening of work by three of today’s most important choreo graphers, created originally with Sadler's Wells in support... |
Upcoming Events
Theatre
Ayad Akhtar's play, recently seen at New York's Lincoln Centre , transfers to London in a new production directed by Nadia Fall and starr ing Kirsty Bushell and Hari Dhillon. Runs 17 May - 22 June inclusive. www.b ushtheatre.co.uk
Robert Sean Leonard (House) returns to the London stage to playAtticus Finch in Christopher Sergel's stage adaptation of the Harper Lee n ovel, directed by Timothy Sheader, Runs 16 May - 15 June. Booking her e: https://tickets.openairtheatre.org/...
Lucy Kirkwood's new play arrives at the Almeida in a Headlong c o-production directed by Lyndsey Turner and starring Claudie Blakley and St ephen Campbell Moore. Runs 20 May - 6 July. Further information at: http:// www.almeida.co.uk/event/chimerica
Clarke Peters, Charles Daish, and Jasper Britton head up UK p remiere of David Mamet's Broadway entry, here directed by Terry Johnson. R uns 23 May - 29 June inclusive. www.hampsteadtheatre.com
John Light and Michelle Terry star in Dominic Dromgoole's produ ction of Shakespeare's perennial favourite, designed by Jonathan Fensom (J ourney's End). Runs 24 May – 12 October 2013 inclusive. Booking at www.shak espearesglobe.com
Anne-Marie Duff stars with Charles Edwards and Patrick Drury inO'Neill's epic play, directed by Simon Godwin. Previews from 28 May. www. nationaltheatre.org.uk
Sharon D Clarke and Lucian Msamati star in Rufus Norris revivalof James Baldwin's seminal play; designed by Ian MacNeil. Previews from J une 4. www.nationaltheatre.org.uk
Classical music
Valery Gergiev, Conductor Leonidas Kavakos, Violin Alexande r Toradze, Piano London Symphony Orchestra
Purcell, King Arthur, Z 628: selections Purcell, Man is fo r the woman made, Z 605 no.3 Handel, L'Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il M oderato, HWV 55: Let me wander not unseen Arne, Under the Greenwood Tre e Arne, Blow, blow thou winter wind Carey,...
Dance
22-25 May: Bern Ballett presents Cathy Marston’s Witch-hunt. Inher final season as artistic director, former Royal Ballet dancer-choreog rapher Marston brings her 16-strong company Bern Ballett back to the Linbur y Studio Theatre with her new work...
24 May-8 June: world premiere of Wayne McGregor's first narrati ve ballet - based on Audrey (The Time Traveller's Wife) Niffenegger's libre tto, composed by Gabriel (The English Patient) Yared. Coupled with Balanch ine's glorious four-movement white...
28 May-1 June: Following outstanding success with his latest so lo, DESH, award-winning dancer/choreographer Akram Khan returns to Sadler 's Wells with the London premiere of his much-anticipated new work, iTMOi , the second part of the A String of...
Richard Alston Dance Company + Q...
RainForest by Rambert Dance Company 5 June 2013 / 19:00 Art Gallery Following their recent sell-out performance, Rambert, the nati onal company for contemporary dance, return for another performance of Mer ce Cunningham’s RainForest. This...
4-8 June 2013, Coppélia, Birmingham Hippodrome. Peter Wright’ s enchanting production of this joyous and witty ballet about a girl whose boyfriend two-times her with a doll is a celebration of love, with a spark ling score by Delibes, designs by...
The Forsythe Company UK PREMIERE Stud y #3 Tuesday 18 - Thursday 20 June Tickets: £12 - £27 William Forsytheis recognised as one of the world’s...
19-22 June 2013, Giselle, Birmingham Hippodrome. David Bintle y and Galina Samsova’s production, designed by Hayden Griffin. In the ruin s of an abbey Giselle tries to stop the ghosts from killing the man who bet rayed her love. Giselle stands...
25-26 June: One of Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s most fascinatin g choreographic works, Drumming, returns to Sadler’s Wells in full after part one was performed in De Keersmaeker’s celebrated Steve Reich Evening i n 2008. A pioneer of minimalist...
3-7 July: Returning to London for the first time in 30 years,America's Boston Ballet presents two high-class programmes reflecting a ce ntury of greatest choreographers from Nijinsky to Wheeldon.. Programme 1 - 3, 4, 6 (eve)...
Cinema relay of the farewell performance together of ballerina Tamara Rojo and young prodigal Sergei Polunin in Marguerite and Armand film ed last March, also containing the cool moonbeam minimalism of Monotones,and retiring ballerina Leanne...
16-17 July, Programme 1; 1st of 3 programmes from the Bolshoiveteran star troupe directed by Andris Liepa, who debuted in London last year to very mixed effect. CLEOPATRA - IDA RUBINSTEIN An original idea by Andris Liepa this exquisite production...
18-19 July, 2nd of 3 programmes from the veteran Bolshoi team headed by Andris Liepa. CLEOPATRA - IDA RUBINSTEIN An original idea by Andris Liepa this exquisite production recounts the story of the creation o f Fokine’s ballet Cleopatra, for Ida...
Visual arts
A series of large-scale kinetic sculptures that bring a contemp orary twist to the lives of the saints. The work is a culmination of the ar tist's two-year residency with the gallery. Until 24 November http://bit .ly/RzX2KZ
Paintings by the Welsh artist, from his early career in the 19 80s to the present. Until 10 August http://parasol-unit.org/upcoming-exh ibitions
The first major survey in a public gallery of the British artis t famed for his dour scenes of industrial life in and around Manchester. Until 20 October http://bit.ly/LbyPKb
Opera
Lohengrin (Wagner) Welsh National Opera Peter Wedd, Tenor:Lohengrin Emma Bell, Soprano: Elsa von Brabant Susan Bickley, Mezzo-so prano: Ortrud John Lundren, Baritone: Friedrich von Telramund Matthew Be st, Bass: Heinrich der Vogler Simon Thorpe,...
Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky) Grange Park Opera Susan Gritt on, Soprano: Tatyana Brett Polegato, Baritone: Eugene Onegin Robert Ant hony Gardiner, Tenor: Lensky Frances Bourne, Mezzo-soprano: Olga Clive Bayley, Bass: Prince Gremin Anne-Marie Owens...
I Puritani (Bellini) Grange Park Opera Matthew Stiff, Bass : Lord Walton Christophoros Stamboglis, Bass: Giorgio Valton Jesus Leon , Tenor: Arturo Talbo Damiano Salerno, Baritone: Riccardo Jeffrey Lloyd- Roberts, Tenor: Sir Bruno Robertson Olivia...
The Perfect American (Glass) English National Opera Gareth Jones, Conductor Phelim McDermott, Director Dan Potra, Set Designer B en Wright, Choreography Christopher Purves, Bass: Walt Disney David Pit tsinger, Bass: Roy Janis Kelly, Soprano: Hazel...
Librettist Jean-Claude Carrière UK Stage Première Supportedby a lead gift from the Kobler Trust Cast includes: Prakiti Claire Boo th Buddha Dale Duesing Mother Rebecca de Pont Davies Old Brahmin RichardAngas Conductor Nicholas Collon Director...
Creative team Conductor Jérémie Rhorer Director Michael Grand age Revival Director Ian Rutherford Designer Christopher Oram Lighting D esigner Paule Constable Movement Director Ben Wright Cast Figaro Adam Plachetka Susanna Laura Tatulescu Countess...
New music
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Dance
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Bolshoi Ballet season 29th July - 17th August; three-week seas on Despite the horror of the sulphuric acid attack on the Bolshoi directorSergei Filin, the season goes ahead with familiar stars Svetlana Zakharov a, Maria Alexandrova and rising star...
Carlos Acosta, Classical Selection, London Coliseum Tuesday 30 July - Sunday 4 August 2013 (no performance Thursday 1 August) Acosta , celebrating his 40th year, is joined by some of his past dance partners and stars of The Royal Ballet...
Bolshoi Ballet season 29th July - 17th August; three-week seas on Despite the horror of the sulphuric acid attack on the Bolshoi directorSergei Filin, the season goes ahead with familiar stars Svetlana Zakharov a, Maria Alexandrova and rising star...
Bolshoi Ballet season 29th July - 17th August; three-week seas on Despite the horror of the sulphuric acid attack on the Bolshoi directorSergei Filin, the season goes ahead with familiar stars Svetlana Zakharov a, Maria Alexandrova and rising star...
7 Aug 2013 – 22 Sep 2013. Leonard Bernstein's music, Jerome Ro bbins's choreography, Stephen Sondheim's lyrics - the immortal 50s New Yor k update on Romeo and Juliet with songs including "Maria", "Tonight", "So mewhere", "America" and "I Feel...
Bolshoi Ballet season 29th July - 17th August; three-week seas on Despite the horror of the sulphuric acid attack on the Bolshoi directorSergei Filin, the season goes ahead with familiar stars Svetlana Zakharov a, Maria Alexandrova and rising star...
Bolshoi Ballet season 29th July - 17th August; three-week seas on Despite the horror of the sulphuric acid attack on the Bolshoi directorSergei Filin, the season goes ahead with familiar stars Svetlana Zakharov a, Maria Alexandrova and rising star...
Birmingham Royal Ballet - 2 fantastic classical productions, T he Slseping Beauty and The Nutcracker (certainly the best in the UK). 25 September opens The Sleeping Beauty UK tour, then a mixed programme headli ned by Penguin Café - both...
30 September-6 November: Carlos Acosta creates a new productionof the fizzy 19th-century 'Spanish' classical ballet Don Quixote. Acosta l eads the casting with Marianela Nunez, with Alina Cojocaru and Steven McRa e also promising special fizz....
1-19 October, Cirque Éloize iD. Jeannot Painchaud presents a s how crackling with daring and modernity. The brand new creation iD is a ble nd of circus arts and urban dance: b-boying, breakdance, hip hop and more . The scene is set in the heart of...
2-4 Oct: film star Natalie (Black Swan) Portman's husband, cho reographer and dancer Benjamin Millepied founded LA Dance Project as an art ist collective in 2012 with composer Nico Muhly, art consultant Matthieu H umery, producer Charles Fabius and...
9-12 Oct: Atomos is the newest full-length work by Wayne McGreg or. Imagining the indivisible order created through uncuttable structures a nd interwoven with an architectural manipulation of bodies, the choreograp hy of Atomos grows from the form...
15-19 Oct: BRB in two programmes - a triple bill of David Bintl ey's dances, including his beautiful indigo-coloured Tombeaux and the popu lar animals of Penguin Café (15...
English National Ballet national UK tour of a new production ofa rarely seen 19th century classic, the pirate romp Le Corsaire, opening17 Oct Milton Keynes,...
19 October -7 December: Kenneth MacMillan's great romantic ball et has become the world's favourite version of the Shakespearean tragedy. Casts: Lauren Cuthbertson/ Federico Bonelli: October 19, 23 Alina Cojoc aru/ Steven McRae: October 22,...
22-26 Oct: the leading contemporary dance company perform two n ew works, by Ashley Page (with Aphex Twin and Mark-Anthony Turnage providi ng music) and Barak Marshall, plus Rambert director Mark Baldwin's stylishComedy of Change. Booking: http://...
22 October 2013 - 2 November 2013 / 19:45, 14:30, 17:00 Boy Blue Entertainment: The Five...
30 Oct-3 Nov: UK premiere of Hofesh Shechter's Sun, his new wo rk following the sensational quality and success of Political Mother. The w orld is perfect. From the darkness of Shechter’s emotive and often angry wo rld emerges a bright white light...
6 - 9 November 2013 / 19:45 Barbican Britten: Phaedra. Richar d Alston Dance Company/Britten Sinfonia. Tickets: £16-35 Part of Barbican Britten, a celebration of Britten’s centenary. Richard Alston's choreograp hy to Lachrymae, Phaedra (New work...
18-23 Nov: Stuttgart Ballet, long associated with the ex-Sadle r's Wells Ballet choreographer John Cranko, performs his The Taming of theShrew, set to Scarlatti music (22...
21 - 30 November 2013 / 19:45 Michael Clark Company, "all th ree at once" Michael Clark Company stunned audiences at the Barbican lastyear with a double bill of diametrically opposed works, set to a soundtra ck featuring Relaxed Muscle and...
18-23 Nov: Stuttgart Ballet, long associated with the ex-Sadle r's Wells Ballet choreographer John Cranko, performs his The Taming of theShrew, set to Scarlatti music (22...
24 & 25 Nov: Return of the brilliant double bill of all-male wo rks by Liam Scarlett and Russell Maliphant that was such a hit in the sprin g. Booking: http://www.sadlerswells.com
27 Nov-5 Jan: Raymond Briggs' immortal story about a boy and a snowman brought to the stage in a children's show that has been a Christmashit for 15 years. Howard Blake's music includes the song "Walking in the a ir", choreography is by Robert...
27 Nov-1 Dec: The master of American contemporary dance, Mark Morris, brings seven works never before seen in the UK, divided into two programmes. 27, 29 Nov, 1 Dec: Programme A includes The Muir, an evol ution of the graceful yet powerful Cease...
27 Nov-1 Dec: The master of American contemporary dance, Mark Morris, brings seven works never before seen in the UK, divided into two programmes. 27, 29 Nov, 1 Dec: Programme A includes The Muir, an evol ution of the graceful yet powerful Cease...
4 Dec – 26 Jan 2014: Bourne's powerfully reimagined Swan Lake,with a Prince in a blackly comic court seeking freedom and wild love with a male swan, has grown from an independent little company show into a worl d-wide phenomenon, both hugely...
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