©Rick Pushinsky
8:35pm
- Help
- •Contact us
- •About us
- •Sitemap
- •Advertise with the FT
- •Terms & conditions
- •Privacy policy
- •Copyright
© The Financial Times Ltd 2013 FT and 'Financial Times' are trademarks of The Financial Times Ltd.
©Rick Pushinsky
8:35pm
©Alastair Muir
8:14pm
A Life of Galileo, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Ian McDiarmid’s performance in Roxana Silbert’s production makes him seem perfectly attuned to Brecht’s King Lear
©Donald Cooper
8:14pm
Cell culture
The concept of incarceration makes for vivid drama, as Alexander Gilmour reports
From
MUSIC
8:14pm
Salif Keita, Royal Festival Hall, London
‘The golden voice of Mali’ infuses his music with tropes from the 1970s club dance scene
- Salif Keita Talé
Feb 14, 2013
Pacific Northwest Ballet, City Center, New York
This Balanchine programme illustrated the strengths – and minor weaknesses – of the American company
©Nobby Clark
Feb 14, 2013
Rutherford & Son, Viaduct Theatre, Halifax
Githa Sowerby’s 1912 play is given a somewhat melodramatic treatment by Jonathan Miller
©Tristram Kenton
Feb 13, 2013
Ashton Ballets, Royal Opera House, London
This programme’s light-minded view of a great choreographer diminished his significance
©David Levene
Feb 13, 2013
Playing Cards 1: Spades, Roundhouse, London
Despite its mesmerising staging and its big themes, Robert Lepage’s latest drama is disappointingly sketchy
©Robert Day
Feb 12, 2013
Bull, Crucible Studio, Sheffield
This drama about the sacking of a white-collar employee uses the bullfight as a powerful metaphor
Feb 11, 2013
Money – The Gameshow, Bush Theatre, London
This drama engagingly explores the build-up to, and the aftermath of, the 2008 financial catastrophe
Feb 11, 2013
Notre-Dame de Paris, Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Natalia Osipova is the ideal enfant terrible to take the role of Esmeralda in Roland Petit’s masterly ballet
Feb 10, 2013
Great Expectations, Vaudeville Theatre, London
With its cartoonish style and gorgeous sets, this production is superficially admirable but lacks heart
Peter Aspden
from
VISUAL ARTS
Feb 8, 2013
The Duchamp revolution
A season of exhibitions celebrates the artist and provocateur’s influence a century after one of his paintings sparked fierce debate. By Peter Aspden
Feb 8, 2013
Interview with Sonia Friedman
The West End producer says commercial theatre needn’t play safe
Feb 7, 2013
Karole Armitage, New York Live Arts
Sensual and contagiously gleeful, the dancers in Armitage’s troupe almost compensated for the veteran choreographer’s lapses
Feb 6, 2013
The Captain of Köpenick, National Theatre (Olivier), London
Antony Sher hits the emotional bull’s-eye as a petty criminal who impersonates a captain in the Prussian guards
Feb 6, 2013
In the Beginning was the End, Somerset House, London
dreamthinkspeak’s new piece of site-specific theatre is a quizzical, surreal journey into the world of technology and consumerism
Feb 5, 2013
Our Country’s Good, St James Theatre, London
Timberlake Wertenbaker’s rich, warm play about convicts treading the boards behind bars has lost none of its punch
Feb 5, 2013
Troïlus et Cressida/Hernani, Comédie-Française, Paris
Native talent: Shakespeare sags and Hugo flies as the French company reopens its main stage
EDITOR’S CHOICE
TOOLS & SERVICES
Multimedia
Tools
- Portfolio
- FT Lexicon
- FT clippings
- Currency converter
- MBA rankings
- Newslines
- Today's newspaper
- FT press cuttings
- FT ebooks
- FT ePaper
- Economic calendar