Season Guides
Southbank Centre, 2011 Season
Monday, 17 January 2011
Mahler, Mahler and anyone who even remotely knew Mahler. There is, of course, more to the South Bank's 2011 season listings than this but the great symphonic agoniser (and his many chums) forms... Read more... |
Barbican Centre, 2011 Season
Saturday, 15 January 2011
In 2011 the Barbican offers eminent theatre directors Robert LePage and Peter Brook along with the diversions of London International Mime Festival. Music includes composer focuses on Unsuk Chin,... Read more... |
English National Ballet, 2011 Season
Tuesday, 11 January 2011
English National Ballet's 2011 season listings pivot largely on the populist Strictly Gershwin dansical before returning to The Nutcracker for next Christmas. In between there... Read more... |
Royal Shakespeare Company, 2011 Season
Saturday, 08 January 2011
The Royal Shakespeare Company celebrates its 50th birthday season with the grand reopening of its transformed Royal Shakespeare Theatre at a cost of £112.8 million. The temporary Courtyard Theatre... Read more... |
Donmar Warehouse, 2011 Season
Saturday, 08 January 2011
The Donmar Warehouse's 2011 season listings take audiences, as so often, in unpredictable directions, from the farcical tensions of American competitive spelling to the high tragedy of 18th-... Read more... |
National Theatre, 2011 Season
Friday, 07 January 2011
The National Theatre's 2011 season listings offer double Shakespeare rations in an eclectic schedule: as Nicholas Hytner's unfussy, modern Hamlet goes on tour round the UK with an... Read more... |
Sadler's Wells Theatre, 2011 Season
Friday, 07 January 2011
The 2011 season at Sadler’s Wells features attractions including horses and mass nudity on stage, the Pet Shop Boys' first ballet, William Forsythe, New York's American Ballet Theatre, the usual... Read more... |
Sadler's Wells, 2010-11 Season
Tuesday, 09 November 2010
The spring 2011 season at Sadler’s Wells opens booking on 15 November. Featured attractions include horses and mass nudity on stage, the Pet Shop Boys' first ballet, William Forsythe, New York's... Read more... |
BBC Proms 2010: theartsdesk recommends...
Friday, 16 July 2010
It's that time again. The BBC Proms - in classical music terms, the greatest show on Earth - begin tonight with Mahler's massive Eighth Symphony. From Bryn Terfel in Wagner on the second... Read more... |
UK Festivals 2010 Round-Up
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
Get your tent and ice-box and plan your summer's entertainment with theartsdesk's definitive clickable festival guide - listings and links for all the UK festivals this summer,... Read more... |
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