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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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. [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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'' [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]