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Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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, [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas '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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas '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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Benjamin Millepied, an organizer of La Ville Dansée - a daylong event in Paris and its environs - wants 'to tell the invisible stories of the city.' [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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. [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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, [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas The fall dance calendar began with English National Ballet under new leadership. Then came Royal Ballet's 'Don Quixote' and 'Black Sabbath: The Ballet.' As the crowds filed [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas The Lyon Dance Biennial, now under new leadership, is doubling down on its efforts to attract in a wide public. Couples lindy-hopped at midnight on a public [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 'There was a feeling that we cannot let this fail,' Koyo Kouoh said of taking the top job at Zeitz MOCAA. She wants to make it relevant [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas The former American Ballet Theater star now leads the Australian Ballet. 'When I am faced with difficulties, I lean into them,' he said. It was March 2020, [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 'The Motive and the Cue,' a new play in London, imagines fraught behind-the-scenes maneuvering by John Gielgud, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor during rehearsals for a classic [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber seem to have had a thousand ideas for 'Pit.' All of them appear to have been included. PARIS - 'Angels empty [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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, [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Peter Morgan, the show's creator, said that Imelda Staunton had the 'vulnerability and strength' to play Queen Elizabeth II for the final two seasons. LONDON - Almost [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas and Laura Cappelle Martinez, once a member of the company and a former leader of the National Dance Company of Spain, will take up the position in [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas 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 [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas LONDON - A few minutes into 'Surface,' a new eight-part series from Apple TV+, the central character, Sophie, played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, asks her therapist a question: [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Christopher Wheeldon's full-length work for the Royal Ballet succeeds best when not meeting the demands of storytelling. LONDON - Twelve white-robed, veiled brides stand motionless onstage as [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas A former star ballerina with the company, Jaffe will assume the reins after the 30-year tenure of Kevin McKenzie. Susan Jaffe, a former American Ballet Theater ballerina, [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas On the 50th anniversary of New York City Ballet's Stravinsky Festival, remembering a collaboration for the ages: Balanchine and Stravinsky. One week. Thirty ballets. Twenty of them [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Rojo, who has given the English National Ballet a new allure, succeeds Helgi Tomasson as just the fifth director to lead the San Francisco company. Tamara Rojo, [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Many associate culture in Athens with ruins and ancient artifacts. But the Greek government and several big philanthropic foundations want to put the city on the international [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Lefèvre, a former director of the Paris Opera Ballet, is stepping down from running the Cannes Dance Festival. What next? 'I want to dance.' CANNES, France - [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas At the beginning of the shoot for 'The Power of the Dog,' the ominous new psychodrama from Jane Campion, the director brought the actors and crew together [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Based on the 1830 novel by Stendhal, Pierre Lacotte's new production for the Paris Opera Ballet is an old-fashioned costume drama. PARIS - 'The Red and the [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Wayne McGregor's full-length work, a collaboration with Thomas Adès and Tacita Dean, opens at a moment of purgatorial relevance. LONDON - 'Be like a jellyfish,' Wayne McGregor [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas The National Ballet of Canada's newly named artistic director discusses her vision for diversity, accessibility and transparency in dance. In early July, an article in The Toronto [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas The annual arts event in the north of England suggests that focusing on community and inclusiveness could be a natural, post-pandemic outcome for artists. MANCHESTER, England - [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas Luma, a 27-acre complex that opens this week in southern France, blends elements like exhibition spaces, a design laboratory and a Frank Gehry-designed building on a former [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas and James Hill PARIS - It was a storehouse for the furniture, art, rugs and precious jewels of France's royal household. It's where Marie Antoinette's death certificate [...]

Byline: Roslyn Sulcas The festival lost some premieres, but gained others, including one by Dimitris Papaioannou, and kept a free project in an old factory. LYON, France - A million [...]