Our critics' picks of this week's openings, plus your last chance to see and what to book now
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Opening this week
Theatre
Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad
Shakespeare's epic love tragedy relocated to present day Iraq, a society riven by sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia. In Arabic with English surtitles. Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon (0844 800 1110), Thursday to 5 May; Riverside Studios, London W6 (020-8237 1111), 28 June until 30 June.
Enquirer
A new site-specific production from the National Theatre of Scotland based on interviews with leading figures in the newspaper industry, from editors to retailers. Andrew O'Hagan co-edits with directors John Tiffany and Vicky Featherstone. Hub at Pacific Quay, Glasgow (0141 429 0022), 26 April until 12 May.
Film
Marley (dir. Kevin Macdonald)
A documentary about the life and times of Bob Marley. He was a musical legend, but a flawed and vulnerable human being.
• Which cultural events are in your diary this week? Tell us in the comments below
Opening this week
Theatre
Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad
Shakespeare's epic love tragedy relocated to present day Iraq, a society riven by sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia. In Arabic with English surtitles. Swan Theatre, Stratford upon Avon (0844 800 1110), Thursday to 5 May; Riverside Studios, London W6 (020-8237 1111), 28 June until 30 June.
Enquirer
A new site-specific production from the National Theatre of Scotland based on interviews with leading figures in the newspaper industry, from editors to retailers. Andrew O'Hagan co-edits with directors John Tiffany and Vicky Featherstone. Hub at Pacific Quay, Glasgow (0141 429 0022), 26 April until 12 May.
Film
Marley (dir. Kevin Macdonald)
A documentary about the life and times of Bob Marley. He was a musical legend, but a flawed and vulnerable human being.
- 4/22/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
From an illicit Pixies gig to a Mesopotamian ziggurat, Guardian critics recall their biggest moment of inspiration in their respective fields
How to enter this year's competition
Pop: Alexis Petridis
Can any gig you see as a critic ever match the ones you saw as a teenager? Bizarrely, going to a gig when I was 17 was harder work than writing reviews has ever been. It involved not merely getting to London, but lying to my parents about where I was going, lying to my friend's parents about where my parents thought I was going, bunking off school, and then convincing somebody who looked 18 to go to the bar on my behalf.
But none of that mattered the night I saw the Pixies supported by My Bloody Valentine, in September 1988. It's not every night you see arguably the two most important guitar bands of the era on the same stage at...
How to enter this year's competition
Pop: Alexis Petridis
Can any gig you see as a critic ever match the ones you saw as a teenager? Bizarrely, going to a gig when I was 17 was harder work than writing reviews has ever been. It involved not merely getting to London, but lying to my parents about where I was going, lying to my friend's parents about where my parents thought I was going, bunking off school, and then convincing somebody who looked 18 to go to the bar on my behalf.
But none of that mattered the night I saw the Pixies supported by My Bloody Valentine, in September 1988. It's not every night you see arguably the two most important guitar bands of the era on the same stage at...
- 6/20/2011
- by Alexis Petridis, Adrian Searle, Erica Jeal, Jonathan Glancey, Peter Bradshaw, Michael Billington, Judith Mackrell, Sam Wollaston
- The Guardian - Film News
Photo by scalleja/Sergio Calleja
We've all seen the dance competitions on TV. There's Dancing with the Stars ballroom-style, So You Think You Can Dance which mixes genres, and America's Best Dance Crew which is primarily hip hop. But Ovation TV takes the dance-off to its toes.
The ballet competition pits five performances of Tchaikovsky's famous holiday performance against each other in the fourth annual Battle of the Nutcrackers Dance Off. The event will be hosted by NYC Ballet board member Sarah Jessica Parker and Damian Woetzel, former principal dancer for the New York City Ballet.
Beginning December 6, Ovation TV will air five versions of the famed production, each with its own spin on the production. Viewers are encouraged to watch all five performances and then go to the Ovation website to vote for their favorite. The winner will be announced on Christmas Eve.
Here's a run down of...
We've all seen the dance competitions on TV. There's Dancing with the Stars ballroom-style, So You Think You Can Dance which mixes genres, and America's Best Dance Crew which is primarily hip hop. But Ovation TV takes the dance-off to its toes.
The ballet competition pits five performances of Tchaikovsky's famous holiday performance against each other in the fourth annual Battle of the Nutcrackers Dance Off. The event will be hosted by NYC Ballet board member Sarah Jessica Parker and Damian Woetzel, former principal dancer for the New York City Ballet.
Beginning December 6, Ovation TV will air five versions of the famed production, each with its own spin on the production. Viewers are encouraged to watch all five performances and then go to the Ovation website to vote for their favorite. The winner will be announced on Christmas Eve.
Here's a run down of...
- 12/6/2010
- by Pop Culture Passionistas
- popculturepassionistas
London, Nov 26 – The Royal Ballet is all set to perform ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the London’s O2 Arena in June, it has been announced.
It will be the first time the world famous company would perform in a UK arena and the cast includes dancers Carlos Acosta, Tamara Rojo, Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg, reports the BBC.
The organisers said that.
It will be the first time the world famous company would perform in a UK arena and the cast includes dancers Carlos Acosta, Tamara Rojo, Alina Cojocaru and Johan Kobborg, reports the BBC.
The organisers said that.
- 11/26/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
From ballet to contemporary, dance is enjoying a real upsurge. But for poise, power and poignancy, who has the best moves?
Vaslav Nijinsky
Born in 1890, Nijinsky trained at the Imperial Ballet School in St Petersburg, where his amazing virtuosity swiftly became apparent. As the star of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes,his intense characterisations in new-wave ballets like Scheherazade, Carnaval and Petrouchka won him a huge European following. "Nijinsky never once touched the ground, but laughed at our sorrows and passions in mid-air," wrote one spectator. His reputation grew with the choreography of several modernist works, but by his mid-20s he was displaying signs of the schizophrenia which, with brutal prematurity, would end his career.
Josephine Baker
Three-quarters of a century before Beyoncé, there was Josephine Baker, the "Black Pearl" of the Folies Bergères. Born into poverty in 1906, Baker became a chorus dancer in the jazzy vaudeville shows of the Harlem Renaissance before,...
Vaslav Nijinsky
Born in 1890, Nijinsky trained at the Imperial Ballet School in St Petersburg, where his amazing virtuosity swiftly became apparent. As the star of Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes,his intense characterisations in new-wave ballets like Scheherazade, Carnaval and Petrouchka won him a huge European following. "Nijinsky never once touched the ground, but laughed at our sorrows and passions in mid-air," wrote one spectator. His reputation grew with the choreography of several modernist works, but by his mid-20s he was displaying signs of the schizophrenia which, with brutal prematurity, would end his career.
Josephine Baker
Three-quarters of a century before Beyoncé, there was Josephine Baker, the "Black Pearl" of the Folies Bergères. Born into poverty in 1906, Baker became a chorus dancer in the jazzy vaudeville shows of the Harlem Renaissance before,...
- 7/31/2010
- by Luke Jennings
- The Guardian - Film News
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