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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. [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

In an early scene in “Monsieur Spade,” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoRPIEtbcBM, the American detective Sam Spade, played by Clive Owen, is lying on his side, grimacing as a doctor examines his nether regions. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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'' [...]

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 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 [...]

A huge new performance space in Manchester, England, opened with a show that trumpets the building’s possibilities, but doesn’t push any boundaries. There was a sense of momentous occasion on [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Nicole Scherzinger was exhausted. It was a week since https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/27/theater/andrew-lloyd-webber-sunset-boulevard-evita.html?searchResultPosition=1 had begun performances, and Scherzinger was playing the lead role of Norma Desmond — the forgotten star of the silent [...]

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 square. Students applauded [...]

The program featured three living female choreographers but not much in the way of traditional ballet. The Palais Garnier might have been designed for an extravagant party, its wide stairs [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Tanztheater Wuppertal unveiled its first season under Boris Charmatz, as well as plans for a new, multipurpose center. What is the identity of the https://www.pina-bausch.de/en/playtime/1 without Pina Bausch, who transformed [...]

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 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 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 Broadway production. “The [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]