Giselle, the greatest of all ballets of the Romantic era, and one of the definitive statements on heartbreak, was conceived by Theophile Gautier as a showcase for the great Carlotta Grisi and premiere ...
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King Lear is generally acknowledged to be Shakespeare’s greatest work. The play is notoriously difficult, excessively long, deeply harrowing and, not surprisingly, his least popular tragedy. Kenneth B ...
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Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, which premiered in 1899, is generally considered to be one of the great plays of the 20th century. Not that you would know it from this revival. Simon Stephens’ radi ...
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Sam Mendes commissioned Jack Thorne to write a play about John Gielgud directing Richard Burton in Hamlet on Broadway in 1964. Thorne took his inspiration from two books by actors who had been in the ...
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