70th Anniversary celebrations 2020 marks English National Ballet’s 70th Anniversary with celebrations taking place throughout the 2019-2020 Season that give opportunities for the Company to say, ‘Thank You’ to its audiences, fans, friends and partners. The 70th Anniversary will be celebrated with three special Gala performances at the London Coliseum featuring extracts from a diverse […]
Frankenstein
Photo Album: tonight’s opening cast of Frankenstein, The Royal Ballet
Liam Scarlett’s first full-length ballet is revived for the first time running from tonight, 5 March 2019 until 23 March. Victor Frankenstein is played by Federico Bonelli, Elizabeth by Laura Morera, and The Creature is Wei Wang. Scarlett’s production uses music by Lowell Liebermann with magnificent designs from John Macfarlane, beautifully and dramatically lit […]
Critics Round-up: Royal Ballet’s Sleeping Beauty
In 2006 Monica Mason decided to go back to the beginning with the Royal Ballet’s signature ballet, The Sleeping Beauty: consign the 2003 Makarova disaster (“dramatically shapeless and emotionally flat” said The Times) to the dustbins, and restore Oliver Messel’s 1946 production. That was the year that the Vic-Wells Ballet moved to the Royal Opera House. There has […]
Haley Joel Osment drawn back to the dead
Twelve years after The Sixth Sense, Haley Joel Osment has returned to frequent dead people. This time around, he’s using them as science projects. Osment will star in “Wake the Dead”, an upcoming adaptation of Mary Shelley’s “Frankenstein”. Based on Steven Niles’ Frankenstein-themed graphic novels, Osment will play Victor Franklin, a college student morbidly experimenting […]
Tamara Rojo interview: “I start from zero – I go back to the steps to find all the feelings again”
Five minutes in the company of Tamara Rojo and you don’t just want to interview her: you want her to be your best friend. Funny, clever, phenomenally articulate, she responds to each question with excitement, wit, fury and intelligence – and so begins The Telegraph‘s long interview with the Royal Ballet star. Rojo on returning to […]
“Ideas batter me like hailstones. Who am I?” – Frankenstein at the National Theatre
Frankenstein, the play, directed by Danny Boyle, is just the latest in an almost innumerable sequence of stage, television and film versions of Shelley’s book. Ever since it was published, almost 200 years ago, arty types in theatre, movies and television, have found the story of Frankenstein’s act of life-giving irresistible. Boyle’s Frankenstein for the […]
Mel Brooks actor Kenneth Mars dies at 75
Kenneth Mars, a Mel Brooks collaborator who played a Hitler-worshipping playwright in “The Producers” and an earnest police inspector with a malfunctioning artificial arm in “Young Frankenstein”, has died at 75. Mars had been on Broadway and appeared in several hit TV shows (“Get Smart”, “Gunsmoke”) when he was cast as the Hitler-worshiping playwright in […]
2011 Olivier Award nominations and winners
Winners of the award. Adriana Lecouvreur Revived at the Royal Opera House for the first time in over a century, Adriana Lecouvreur is a fictional account of the life of the 18th century actress. David McVicar was acclaimed for direction. Nominated for: Outstanding Achievement in Opera Best New Opera Production After the Dance Terence Rattigan’s […]
All I ask is the possibility of love! – Frankenstein at the National Theatre
The beginning of February sees what must be one of the most highly anticipated productions of 2011 – Frankenstein, directed by Danny ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ Boyale at London’s National Theatre. It is an adaptation by Nick Dear based on Mary Shelley’s novel. I followed nature into her lair, and stripped her of her secrets! I brought torrents of light […]
