The New Exhibition at the British Museum presents a Dazzling Display of Hawaiian Culture Visitors to the British Museum’s latest exhibition – Hawai’i: a kingdom crossing oceans – shouldn’t be deterred by the sight that first greets them. A huge, snarling image of the god Ku stands ominously beside the entrance, ready for action and […]
Yorke Dance Project: Modern Milestones
Renewing the Tradition Yolande Yorke-Edgell’s Yorke Dance Project (YDP) has a dual mission: to celebrate the roots of American contemporary dance and to work with veteran and younger choreographers to create fresh work. Tonight’s programme for Modern Milestones at the Linbury studio theatre, Royal Opera House, achieved both aims. A mixed programme of five works, […]
Woolf Works, Award Winning Dance from Royal Ballet
Into Woolf’s inner world – Wayne McGregor’s dance response to the life and writing of Virginia Woolf. Wayne McGregor’s first full-length work for the Royal Ballet, created in 2015, has returned to the Royal Opera House. His Olivier Award–winning triptych, Woolf Works, remains an ambitious and distinctive response to Virginia Woolf, translating her restless, questioning […]
Death of Gesualdo – St Martin in the Fields
Dark Harmonies from The Gesualdo Six, A Theatrical Concert for the 300th Anniversary of St Martin in the Fields In his introduction to Death of Gesualdo, Bill Barclay writes: “Carlo Gesualdo wrote some of the most darkly sublime music of the late Renaissance. He also savagely murdered his wife and her lover in their bed. […]
Yorke Dance Project Honours Modern Dance Pioneers
Yolande Yorke-Edgell Talks to London Unattached about Modern Milestones “Legacy is very important to me”, says Yolande Yorke-Edgell, British dancer, choreographer and founder of the Yorke Dance Project, which launched in Los Angeles in 1998 and relaunched in the UK in 2009, thus spanning the width of the Atlantic Ocean, not only geographically, but also […]
La traviata at the Royal Opera House
A fabulous revival of La traviata Richard Eyre’s landmark production of Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata has returned to The Royal Opera House. The opera’s themes encompass sex, death, grand passion, family honour and finally tragedy, and it marks the end of the vocal-led ‘Bel Canto’ period in opera, moving towards a greater depth of characterisation […]
Paranormal Activity – Ambassadors Theatre
Bone-chilling horror that’ll keep you up all night Felix Barrett had us quaking in our boots with this spooky and claustrophobic tale. Eerie performances, a tight script and ingenious set design combine to create a play that’ll have you second-guessing every creak, judder and thud you hear for the next few months. Not for the […]
Into the Woods at the Bridge Theatre
You’re in for a big surprise Director Jordan Fein’s new production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into the Woods at the Bridge Theatre is the first major London revival of the musical since 2016. Premiering on Broadway in 1987, Into the Woods was Sondheim and Lapine’s second collaboration after Sunday in the Park with George. From the narrator’s […]
London Opera Preview Winter/Spring/Summer 2026
Our Pick of the Upcoming Season 2026 is a year of change at the top of the London opera scene. The Royal Opera’s new Music Director, Jakub Hrusa, has a chance to get properly bedded in at Covent Garden, and English National Opera welcomes André de Ridder as Music Director Designate. There is also some […]
Ballet Nights, The New Year’s Day Concert
Ballet Nights’ Newest Project Rings in 2026 Ballet Nights hit the ground running just over two years ago as “a new way of seeing dance”, in the words of its go-getting founder, Jamiel Devernay-Laurence. It has come a long way, grown and evolved, and its first New Year’s Day Concert, which rang in 2026 at […]