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Video: Behind the Scenes of The Pumpkin Transformation from The Royal Ballet's CINDERELLA
by Blair Ingenthron - Dec 28, 2024

Get a look behind the scenes of the pumpkin transformation from The Royal Ballet's Cinderella with Flys Assistant Manager Henry Desmond in the video here!

Video: James Hay and Bennett Gartside Discuss Playing Step-Sisters in The Royal Ballet's CINDERELLA
by Blair Ingenthron - Dec 14, 2024

James Hay and Bennett Gartside discuss their performance as the step-sisters in The Royal Ballet's Cinderella, in the video here! Performances run through 16 January.

Puccini's TOSCA Continues The Met: Live In HD Season
by A.A. Cristi - Nov 12, 2024

Experience Puccini's TOSCA live from the Met Opera on November 23. Part of the Met: Live in HD series, this performance brings the dramatic opera to audiences worldwide.

CINDERELLA Runs at the Royal Ballet This Holiday Season
by Stephi Wild - Oct 31, 2024

This Christmas, The Royal Ballet invites you to the ball with Frederick Ashton’s spectacular Cinderella.  A fairytale like no other, this magical ballet boasts astonishing stagecraft, enchanting design and exquisite dance.  This much-loved ballet is a masterpiece for all the family to enjoy this festive period. 

Puccini's TOSCA to Return to The Metropolitan Opera This Month
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 13, 2024

Soprano Lise Davidsen will sing her first Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso, who will make his Met debut, as David McVicar’s production of Puccini’s Tosca returns to the Met. Learn how to purchase tickets.

Royal Ballet And Opera Announces 2024/25 Cinema Season
by A.A. Cristi - May 29, 2024

The Royal Ballet and Opera has announced its 2024/25 Cinema Season, bringing world-class theatre to cinema screens right around the globe.  

Review: THE FLYING DUTCHMAN, Royal Opera House
by Michael Higgs - Mar 1, 2024

Albery’s revival of his Flying Dutchman simply works: with a great cast and a smooth atmosphere created by a dreamlike ship-inspired set, it all builds towards a Gesamtkunstwerk that Wagner might have enjoyed himself. A great success, all around.

GROUNDED by Jeanine Tesori to Open The Metropolitan Opera's 2024â€"25 Season
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 21, 2024

The Metropolitan Opera has unveiled the 2024–25 season lineup. Learn about the operas being presented and see how to purchase tickets.

Dita Von Teese Unveils Additional Dates for Residency DITA LAS VEGAS
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Feb 9, 2024

Dita Von Teese, has revealed additional dates through June 2024 for her premiere residency, DITA LAS VEGAS: A Jubilant Revue, in the Jubilee Theater at Horseshoe Las Vegas

Photos: Dita Von Teese Opens 'DITA LAS VEGAS: A Jubilant Revue' Residency
by Michael Major - Oct 30, 2023

In this only-in-Vegas spectacular, Queen of Burlesque, Dita Von Teese, who is joined on stage by two dozen dancers and two guest performers, tips her hat to the spectacular spirit of Jubilee of yore and the historic theater at Horseshoe, while incorporating her most iconic acts. Check out the photos from the opening night now!

Joshua Bergasse-Directed World Premiere of SUGAR HILL to Play New York City Center
by Chloe Rabinowitz - Sep 18, 2023

The World Premiere of SUGAR HILL: The Ellington/Strayhorn Nutcracker, the jazz-steeped reimagining of The Nutcracker based on the genre-defying collaboration of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn, will debut at New York City Center.

Photos: Get an All New Look at BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN @sohoplace
by Stephi Wild - Jul 21, 2023

New production photos have been released for Nica Burns’ world premiere production of Brokeback Mountain, as the show enters its final three weeks of performances, running @sohoplace theatre until 12 August 2023. 

Video: Watch the All New Trailer For BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN @sohoplace
by Stephi Wild - Jul 7, 2023

An all new trailer has been released for the world premiere of Brokeback Mountain, a new play with music, written by Ashley Robinson with songs by Dan Gillespie Sells, based on Annie Proulx's short story, and directed by Jonathan Butterell. Check out the video here!

Winners Announced for the 43rd Annual DORA AWARDS From Toronto Alliance for the Performing Arts
by A.A. Cristi - Jun 28, 2023

Tonight, the 43rd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards ceremony and award presentation hosted by Craig Lauzon occurred at the TELUS Centre for Performance and Learning, Koerner Hall.

Bad Hats/Soulpepper's ALICE IN WONDERLAND Leads Dora Award Nominations
by Team BWW - May 30, 2023

At a press conference held at Meridian Hall, the Toronto Alliance for the  Performing Arts (TAPA) announced 228 nominations for the 43rd Annual Dora Mavor Moore Awards, which recognize excellence in professional theatre, dance and opera in Toronto for the 2022-2023 season. Also announced at the press conference was the recipient of the Province of Ontario’s Pauline McGibbon Award. 

Review: THE CRUCIBLE at Eisenhower Theater
by Mary Lincer - May 25, 2023

What did our critic think of THE CRUCIBLE at Eisenhower Theater? Choreographer Helen Pickett does in her ballet The Crucible just exactly what Arthur Miller attempted in his 1953 play, her source. Both try to make a new language to express the Salem witch trials of 1692 because those events were too extraordinary for regular English or garden-variety ballet.

Photos: First Look at Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges in BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
by Stephi Wild - May 16, 2023

All new production photos have been released for the world premiere of Brokeback Mountain, a new play with music, written by Ashley Robinson with songs by Dan Gillespie Sells, based on Annie Proulx’s short story, and directed by Jonathan Butterell. 

Wagner's DER FLIEGENDE HOLLANDER to Return to the Met This Month
by Chloe Rabinowitz - May 15, 2023

Wagner’s ghostly drama Der Fliegende Holländer returns to the Met for four performances, May 30–June 10.

Video: Eddi Reader Sings 'Sharing Your Heart' From BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
by Stephi Wild - Apr 26, 2023

A brand new song has been released from the world premiere stage adaptation of Annie Proulx’s short story, Brokeback Mountain, a new play with music. In the video, Eddi Reader sings ‘Sharing Your Heart’. This is the moment where Alma (played by Emily Fairn) realises that her husband, Ennis Del Mar (played by Lucas Hedges), also loves another.

Review: THE JOFFREY BALLET: ANNA KARENINA at Kennedy Center
by Roger Catlin - Apr 7, 2023

How do you fit an 800-page Russian classic into a night's ballet? Throw a lot of ballroom dances. There has been a couple of attempts to make Leo Tolstoy's 'Anna Karenina' into a ballet before - there also has been two operas and nearly two dozen filmed versions. Past ballets have usied a pastiche of works from Tchaikovsky for the music. But Yuri Possokhov's recent version, presented with verve this week at the Kennedy Center is a winning one.