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Swedish soprano whose perceptive singing and vivid acting made her a great heroine in operas by Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and Janacek One of the most perceptive and admired sopranos of the postwar era, Elisabeth Söderström,...
The truth behind the children's classic 'Where the Wild Things Are' – now a $100m movie – is that growing up can be painful. Having already sold 10 million copies worldwide, they have this year inspired a 300-page novelisation...
Bluegrass, fado, opera and jazz fuse together at Georgia's glorious medley of a festival. Kate Connolly falls in love with the music, history and mint juleps The man who drives me from the airport to my hotel sings for much of...
Barbican, London Shakespeare gets a close-up in Toneelgroep's compression of three plays – Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra – a remarkable six-hour marathon played without an interval. If that sounds like a...
Switching roles: Abi Titmuss is taking on the role of Lady Macbeth in a new theatre production She's the nurse who defended John Leslie against rape claims - then reinvented herself as a D-list sex symbol. No. No one should...
It is based on the true stories of white and Asian teenagers from Burnley attempting to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of the 2001 riots, and has received widespread acclaim for its portrayal of the town's racial tensions.
Ringleader: Elaine Page at Southaw Girls' School in Hertfordshire Actress and singer Elaine Paige, 61, made her name in 1978 in the stage musical Evita. Her career has flourished in musical theatre and she also hosts Elaine...
Edward Woodward became a household name as Callan, the cold-blooded Secret Service agent in the television series of the same name, which ran for seven years from the late 1960s. But he suffered from being too closely...
Playwrights deceased and long-honored, and young and rising, were praised to the skies this week. The plays are co-directed by Robert O'Hara and Tina Landau, a Chicago-based director with an uneven resume who is currently...
Columbia College Chicago's Center for Asian Arts and Media will produce the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Flower Drum Song in summer 2010. Baayork Lee, the director and choreographer perhaps most associated with A Chorus...
