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Woolf Works review – Alessandra Ferri goes deeper in Wayne McGregor’s modern masterpiece

The Italian star graces a flawless revival of McGregor’s dreamlike 2015 ballet inspired by the writings of Virginia Woolf

The Guardian - UK

Woolf Works review – the wondrous Alessandra Ferri flies again

Returning to the role created for her by Wayne McGregor, the dancer portrays the great modernist with emotional power

The Guardian - UK

Woolf Works at the Royal Opera House review: Wayne McGregor’s masterful ballet is a heartbreaker

Alessandra Ferri resumes the central role and, at nearly 60, anchors a ballet about how it feels to sift through memory

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From Tchaikovsky to Pankhurst, the quiet love stories of history's queer musicians

Classical music doesn't have a particularly radical reputation, but that doesn't mean that queer culture hasn't been thriving for centuries within its ranks.

ABC News

Legends and characters in books, TV and film 'you didn't realise were LGBTQ+'

Myths and legends geek Dan Jones' book - Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend - features characters including god Achilles, Wonder Woman, and Barbie's Ken doll

Daily Mirror

Alessandra Ferri: ‘Dancing with Nureyev, I swear he had an energetic aura around him’

The principal ballerina on portraying Virginia Woolf, why she’s so enthusiastic about ageing, and what she learned from the greats

The Guardian - UK

‘It was always an artist’s garden’: How Charleston became Vanessa Bell’s muse

In her new book, ‘Why Women Grow’, Alice Vincent explores why women turn to the soil. In this extract, she retraces the steps of artist Vanessa Bell among the apple trees and rose bushes of Charleston in Sussex

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'After Sappho' brings women in history to life to claim their stories

Selby Wynn Schwartz's debut, longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize, is partly a love letter to Virginia Woolf and poet Sappho, partly a work of literary criticism and partly a speculative biography.

WEKU

Can reading help heal us and process our emotions – or is that just a story we tell ourselves?

The oldest known library, dating back to the second millennium BC, in Thebes, Egypt, reportedly bore a sign above its portals in Greek: Psyches Iatreion, translated as “healing place of the soul”.

The Conversation

2023 public domain debuts include last Sherlock Holmes work

Sherlock Holmes is finally free to the American public in 2023

The Independent UK

Review: 'Young Bloomsbury,' by Nino Strachey

NONFICTION: This book about the lesser known junior members of the Bloomsbury Group leaves the reader wanting for more.

Tribune News Service

National Portrait Gallery announces reopening date in June

A new wing will host more than 100 years of British portraits in nine galleries as part of the redevelopment.

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: Orlando; Hex review – an elemental Emma Corrin, and a bit of a beast at the National

Corrin shape-shifts to perfection in Neil Bartlett’s zestful take on Virginia Woolf, while a bad fairy casts a spell on Rufus Norris

The Guardian - UK

A 'downtown' choreographer brings her craft to the opera

You could call choreographer Annie-B Parson a “downtown” choreographer

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The Woolf pack: Renée Fleming and Joyce DiDonato on turning The Hours into opera

The Pulitzer-prize-winning, Mrs Dalloway-influenced novel about three generations of women, has finally hit the stage. Its stars tell us how they pulled it off

Evening Standard

Orlando at the Garrick Theatre review – Emma Corrin is captivating in this bold, tricksy experiment

Corrin anchors the show but it never feels like the emotional stakes are very high

The Guardian - UK

Orlando review – Emma Corrin is glorious in a giddy, heartfelt show

In Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s wild-goose chase through time, Corrin shines as the hero who falls asleep as a man and wakes as a woman

The Independent UK

Orlando review: Emma Corrin is magnificent as Woolf’s punk rock protagonist

Michael Grandage’s production has an inventiveness and creativity that’s true to the spirit of Virginia Woolf’s novel

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Playwright Neil Bartlett on bringing Virginia Woolf’s provocative, prescient novel Orlando to the stage in 2022

As Emma Corrin plays Virginia Woolf’s most thrilling, radical protagonist in a new West End production, its writer Neil Bartlett explores why it’s time to reintroduce ourselves to ‘Orlando’

Evening Standard

National Portrait Gallery will get new wing as part of refurbishment

The Blavatnik Wing will host portraits of Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, the Bronte sisters and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Star Soprano Renee Fleming Returns to Met Opera with 'The Hours'

A powerhouse trio of American song will interpret the voice of Virginia Woolf on New York's prestigious Metropolitan Opera stage, as the highly anticipated run of "The Hours" makes its world premiere Tuesday. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Oscar-nominated film explores how threads of English writer Woolf's "Mrs.

The Guardian - US

‘It feels like something different’: turning The Hours into an opera

The acclaimed book and Oscar-winning movie, about three women grappling with despair, is making an unusual leap to the stage in New York

The Independent UK

After fine-tuning, 'The Hours' with Fleming opens at the Met

Kevin Puts’ “The Hours” has had more than a few hours of changes since it was first heard in a pair of concert performances in Philadelphia last March

The Guardian - UK

A Statue of One’s Own: the new Virginia Woolf sculpture that’s challenging stereotypes

Passersby are encouraged to take a selfie with the monument that artist Laury Dizengremel hopes will inspire women and girls

The Guardian - UK

‘It’s relatable’ … The Crown’s Emma Corrin on playing gender-swapping, time-travelling Orlando

The actor and the director Michael Grandage talk about how relevant their staging of Virginia Woolf’s classic work of gender fluidity feels – and remember their own queer battles

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