YOU WONT BELIEVE: 10 - What They Never Told You

Mikhail Baryshnikov: ‘The thought of going back to that Brezhnev swamp was impossible’

The illustrious ballet dancer on natural insecurity, his defection from the USSR to Canada – and how his body feels these days

The Guardian - UK · Nov 7, 2022

London’s cultural venues from Donmar Warehouse to Royal Opera House respond to major Arts Council funding cuts

Some of the capital’s most prestigious venues face huge funding cuts or removal of Arts Council support altogether

Evening Standard · Nov 4, 2022

The Yeomen of the Guard review – tonal uncertainties but G&S update has plenty to enjoy

Jo Davies’ 1950-set staging of the late G&S opera may not fully cohere but musically we’re in excellent hands and Richard McCabe’s is a moving – and sweatily desperate – Jack Point

The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2022

A Dead Body in Taos review – a spiritual exploration of what it means to be really free

Set in the New Mexico desert, David Farr’s unusual play dips into virtual reality in order to raise questions of love, life and what constitutes the human essence

The Guardian - UK · Oct 30, 2022

An Anatomy of Melancholy review – vivid musical study of an indefinable condition

In an intimate show – part a staged recital part a mini-opera - Iestyn Davies and Thomas Dunford perform John Dowland’s lute songs epitomising melancholy

The Guardian - UK · Oct 28, 2022

Modern and major: how Gilbert and Sullivan still skewer England’s absurdities

Dismiss their works at your peril. Strip the barnacles of stale tradition off the Victorian duos’s light operettas and their seditious glory still shines

The Guardian - UK · Oct 27, 2022

‘I threw my arms around Beckett!’ – electrifying first nights, by Ciarán Hinds, Eileen Atkins and more

The author of a new book about the greatest openings in theatre history asks stars of stage to recall their most thrilling first nights – and the occasional disasters that befell them

The Guardian - UK · Oct 26, 2022

King Hamlin review – trapped teens face up to lives at knife-point

Excellent performances enhance this story of three young boys hurtling towards gang culture

The Guardian - UK · Oct 25, 2022

Mud, murder and homemade schnapps: eco-thriller Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead roars back

As Complicité’s Simon McBurney brings Olga Tokarczuk’s feminist detective story to the stage, the pair discuss its eccentric sleuth, isolated landscape and climate alarm

The Guardian - UK · Oct 24, 2022

Light of Passage review – Crystal Pite’s magnificent dance of life

The Canadian choreographer has turned 2017’s acclaimed Flight Pattern into a full-length work that brims with massed energy and profound humanity

The Guardian - UK · Oct 23, 2022