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Tried and Tested
Opera
A highly entertaining small-scale staging of Rossini's comic opera is as theatrical as it is musical
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Dance
Contemporary performance artists Impermanence bring Venus, a programme brimming with creativity, vitality, and not a few risks, to the Wilton’s Music Hall
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Kids
An updated version of the children's classic tale pits environmentalists against a mega corporation
Preview
Dance
The London International Mime Festival returns in 2023 with a mind-boggling variety of physical and visual theatre shows
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Dance
Phantoms, Mark Bruce Company’s latest triple bill now on at Wilton’s Music Hall, is a rollercoaster ride through his dreams and ours, at once disturbing and exhilarating
Essential
Dance
Mark Bruce talks to Culture Whisper about his unique take on dance theatre, as the Mark Bruce Company prepares to bring his Phantoms triple bill to Wilton’s Music Hall
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Theatre
Kneehigh's charming, whimsical and thoroughly joyous The Flying Lovers of Vitebsk is being streamed live from Bristol Old Vic this December
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Dance
Mark Bruce Company’s Return to Heaven at Wilton’s Music Hall is a rollercoaster ride of exotic, often surreal, imagery that simultaneously intrigues and stimulates
Last Chance
Dance
Ben Duke’s Juliet & Romeo, a startling and thought provoking take on the greatest ever love story, returns for a short run at Wilton's Music Hall
Preview
Dance
PLEASE NOTE: THIS SHOW HAS BEEN CANCELLED Brecht/Weill’s morality play-cum-cabaret Seven Deadly Sins, as interpreted by the choreographer Kenneth MacMillan at Wilton's Music Hall
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Dance
BalletBoyz’ Young Men has a final outing at Wilton’s Music Hall as the commemorations marking the centenary of World War I draw to a close
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Dance
Mark Bruce’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth, now showing in the unique space of Wilton’s Music Hall, is disturbing and exhilarating in equal measure
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Opera
A privileged young man with lashings of money and London at his feet ...What can possibly go wrong?
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Opera
Flirtation races towards tragedy in an 80-minute version of Bizet's Carmen that gets to the heart of its colourful characters
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Opera
Carmen loves the men who don't love her. But when one of them weakens, disaster ensues for all involved
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Festival
Get to know an important Chinese scholar, spend a night at the Chinese opera, or get inside the life of the German pianist and composer Clara Schumann
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Opera
A Royal Opera directorial debut finds parallels between the classical world and a modern dictatorship
Interview
As a child he begged his parents to play an opera video. Now Gerard Jones is directing a production for the Royal Opera House
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Theatre
Ben Duke, Paradise Lost: one man’s ambitious take on the creation myth is back in a brilliant venue, and still unmissable
In the Know
Theatre
'Told by an Idiot' stages 'brutal comedy' I Am Thomas with lyrics by poet Simon Armitage
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Dance
The team that brought us last year’s award-hoarding Dracula returns with a miniaturised dance version of the Odyssyey, from the Mark Bruce Company.
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Classical Music
Violinist Peter Sheppard Skaerved opens his international Mozart series in the atmospheric East End venue