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Throughout her career and on ''Downton Abbey,'' she perfected the role of the commanding Englishwoman with an arrow-sharp wit. ''Oh for heaven's sake!'' Maggie Smith said in a 2015 interview, [...]

Original cast members look back at George Balanchine and Alexandra Danilova's staging of the 19th-century ballet. ''Everyone knows when something is good,'' one said. George Balanchine's decision to stage the [...]

The 1838 score for 'Dalinda,' which uses chunks of 'Lucrezia Borgia,' was found in Naples in 2019. A student company in Cape Town just gave the first staged performance. 'Could [...]

The new Apple TV+'s new series takes the viewer inside two rival Paris fashion houses, with gorgeous people in gorgeous clothes who will do anything for power. 'Does she know [...]

The plucky London City Ballet collapsed in 1996. Now it's getting a second life with a new mission: to stage little-known, small-scale works. Once upon a time, there was a [...]

Jean-Paul Montanari's career as the head of Montpellier Danse has been entwined with the rise of contemporary dance as a force in France. 'But is he really leaving?' Even after [...]

John Neumeier has run the Hamburg Ballet for 51 years, putting his stamp on the company and the city. It's among the longest tenures of any director of an arts [...]

The festival, the final one for its longtime director, started with a bravura work by Wayne McGregor that was at once otherworldly and deeply human. The abyss, the womb, the [...]

Many remarkable performances fueled the Royal's mini-festival of ballets by Frederick Ashton, the company's founding choreographer. Dance, people like to say, is a universal language. But ballet isn't. Rather, it's [...]

To help honor 100 years of James Joyce's ''Ulysses,'' an all-women Irish festival refocuses the annual re-enactment of the novel's wanderings around the character of Molly Bloom. The mayor of [...]

''Give-ING! That dress is giving!'' said Ncuti Gatwa with a burst of unbridled laughter. The newest Doctor Who had been shooting the same scene for several hours in Cardiff, Wales, [...]

''Firebrand'' focuses on his sixth spouse as she tries to outlast the ailing king and his treacherous court. ''I thought of it as a thriller,'' the director says. Midway through [...]

A conversation with Serkis, the star of the earlier films in the ''Planet of the Apes'' franchise, and Teague, the lead of the latest film, ''Kingdom of the Planet of [...]

In the historical drama ''Mary and George,'' new on Starz, Julianne Moore plays an ambitious mother whose son catches the eye of King James I of England. Standing in a [...]

Benjamin Millepied and Nico Muhly's evening of minimally accessorized dance and contemporary music feels right at home at the Philharmonie in Paris. The choreographer Benjamin Millepied is a protean figure. [...]

In the historical drama ''Mary and George,'' new on Starz, Julianne Moore plays an ambitious mother whose son catches the eye of King James I of England. Standing in a [...]

In an early scene in ''Monsieur Spade,'' a new six-part series from AMC, the American detective Sam Spade, played by Clive Owen, is lying on his side, grimacing as a [...]

Is it possible for a great ballerina to take control of her destiny outside of a company and find fulfilling creative expression? Alina Cojocaru, a former principal dancer with the [...]

At La Scala, Ratmansky's original choreography makes details and nuances of the story pop, as if a carapace of formulaic interpretation has been cracked open. ''Coppelia'' is the last, exuberant [...]

On a chilly day in December 2016, Peter Morgan stood on a London street, watching the filming of a scene from his new television series about the British royal family. [...]

Es Devlin is a British designer of memories and psychologies, ideas and dreams. She has created environments for operas, dance works and plays (her scenic design for ''The Lehman Trilogy'' [...]

The company folded in the 1990s with mounting debts. Can a rebooted troupe thrive at a time when similar British organizations are scaling back? London City Ballet, a company that [...]

Ferri, the star ballerina who was a principal at American Ballet Theater, will run the large Vienna company and its affiliated school. The ballerina Alessandra Ferri has had many dance [...]

The Empire State Building honors New York City Ballet's 75th anniversary by lighting up in blue, favored by George Balanchine as a backdrop. It's a numinous blue that suggests the [...]

Nicole Scherzinger was exhausted. It was a week since Jamie Lloyd's new production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's ''Sunset Boulevard'' had begun performances, and Scherzinger was playing the lead role of [...]

Original cast members talk about their experiences making the three-part plotless ballet, which opens New York City Ballet's 75th anniversary season. The sylvan glade romanticism of ''Emeralds,'' the electric energy [...]

Charmatz's first new work for the company founded by Pina Bausch was a messy, meandering grab-bag of ideas and inspirations. Everyone needs an editor. Writers, directors, cooks, choreographers and designers [...]

As Waltz's Berlin troupe commemorates its anniversary, its founder looks back on the lessons of those years, and forward to what comes next. Thirty years ago, the young German choreographer [...]

Tanztheater Wuppertal unveiled its first season under Boris Charmatz, as well as plans for a new, multipurpose center. What is the identity of the Tanztheater Wuppertal without Pina Bausch, who [...]

The British actress is reprising her role as the Jewish physician at the center of an ethical drama. ''It's like a tailored suit,'' the director Robert Icke said. At the [...]

Wayne McGregor's new ballet, ''Untitled, 2023,'' gives equal weight to Carmen Herrera's visual design and Anna Thorvaldsdottir's music. LONDON -- It's been 17 years since the Royal Ballet named Wayne [...]

The piercing eyes stare out intently from the cover of ''American Prometheus,'' a biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the scientist who spearheaded the development of the atomic bomb. The book, [...]

His exuberant ''Brandenburg,'' which returns to City Ballet this month, was made near the end of his life, when he was physically and emotionally frail. Jerome Robbins wasn't feeling well [...]

Wheeldon is back at New York City Ballet, where he honed his choreographic skills, making a non-narrative work set to Schoenberg. ''It's not you, it's me,'' Christopher Wheeldon said, stopping [...]

The choreographer is trying his hand at filmmaking with an experiment that merges drama, dance and music. PARIS -- Benjamin Millepied probably didn't need to take on any new life [...]

A new adaptation of Dickens's novel takes liberties with the plot, but has the same preoccupations with class and the allure of money and status. Dickens purists, look away! At [...]

A twisty MGM+ series tells the story of Kim Philby, a British agent secretly working for the Soviet Union, and Nicholas Elliott, his closest friend. ''Why wasn't he in custody?'' [...]

A group of eclectic performers will gather to perform new and old dances. Adji Cissoko, a member of Alonzo King's Lines Ballet, will be the artist in residence. New work [...]

In ''Broken Chord,'' the choreographer Gregory Maqoma and the composer Thuthuka Sibisi consider the journey of a South African choir that traveled to England in the 19th century. LONDON -- [...]

Mehdi Kerkouche, who comes from the commercial dance world, has been tapped to run an important public institution, the National Choreographic Center in Créteil. PARIS -- Mehdi Kerkouche was born [...]

''Life of Pi'' and Laura Linney on Broadway, Lise Davidsen at the Met Opera, SZA on tour: Here's what we're looking forward to this season. Broadway | Off Broadway | [...]

These actors turned playwrights all excavate memories and meaning from their lives in creating these four shows, which arrive in New York in the coming months. Arinzé Kene LONDON -- [...]

Her new work for the Royal Ballet, ''Secret Things,'' is both pedestrian and poetic, a portal into the practices and collective memories of ballet. LONDON -- ''Secret Things'' is the [...]

Melanie Chisholm has collaborated with the choreographer Jules Cunningham on ''How Did We Get Here?,'' a dance piece exploring what the body holds. The British choreographer Jules Cunningham is a [...]

Starring Jessica Lange and Ed Harris, Jonathan Kent's adaptation of ''Long Day's Journey Into Night'' started production, only to lose key financing. WICKLOW, Ireland -- ''Strong winds, gradually subsiding'' read [...]

Martinez, once a member of the company and a former leader of the National Dance Company of Spain, will take up the position in December. José Martinez, a Spanish-born former [...]

Crystal Pite's ''Light of Passage'' at the Royal Ballet takes on big issues: refugees, life and death. At Ballet Black, Gregory Maqoma shines. LONDON -- A chiaroscuro vision of blacks [...]

Benjamin Millepied's L.A. Dance Project presents a ''Romeo and Juliet'' with same-sex lovers. And at Paris Opera Ballet, Alan Lucien Oyen goes Bauschian. PARIS -- Love, in its first blazing [...]

The death of Queen Elizabeth II has been remarkable for many things: The outpouring of love and affection from her citizens and across the globe; the 20-hour, through-the-night queue to [...]

GLASGOW -- Rain pours down, thunder growls, lightning flickers. Fragments of melancholy melody emerge from the tumult, and a lone, silhouetted figure appears onstage, moving his upper body in sinuous [...]