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Blood splatter and mud: all in a day's work for Vienna costumiers

Blood splatter and mud: all in a day's work for Vienna costumiers - 05/16/2013

VIENNA, Sim Sim Wissgott- In a few bright rooms near the Vienna Opera, an army of workers wield needle and thread, transform black felt almost magically into golden armour, and gleefully create blood...
Mystery play equals Olivier record at London ceremony

Mystery play equals Olivier record at London ceremony - 04/29/2013

LONDON- The stage adaptation of Mark Haddon's novel "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" on Sunday claimed seven prizes at Britain's prestigious Laurence Olivier Awards. The mystery...
New ballet scandal after Kiev theatre ousts dance chief

New ballet scandal after Kiev theatre ousts dance chief - 04/12/2013

KIEV- The Ukraine National Opera house was embroiled in a farcical scandal Thursday after it ousted a star dancer from the post of ballet company chief on the grounds he never formally held the job....
Japanese ballet dancer Kimoto named soloist in Vienna

Japanese ballet dancer Kimoto named soloist in Vienna - 04/08/2013

VIENNA- Japanese dancer Masayu Kimoto has been promoted to the rank of soloist with the Vienna Ballet, the company announced in a statement on Monday. The young Japanese dancer has featured heavily...
Bolshoi acid attack 'puppeteer' still at large: theatre

Bolshoi acid attack 'puppeteer' still at large: theatre - 03/12/2013

MOSCOW, Anna Malpas- A Bolshoi ballet dancer charged with ordering an acid attack on the troupe's artistic director was not the ultimate "puppeteer" behind the plot, the theatre said Monday after...
Cruel treatment for Ben Ali in Tunisian Macbeth

Cruel treatment for Ben Ali in Tunisian Macbeth - 02/26/2013

TUNIS, Perrine Massy- Two years after the revolution, a Tunisian version of Macbeth is parodying deposed dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, cast in the mould of William Shakespeare's notorious villain...
Japan's renewed kabuki theater lights up

Japan's renewed kabuki theater lights up - 02/14/2013

TOKYO- Lights began to shine on Tokyo's celebrated home of traditional kabuki theatre on Thursday, as the renovated venue prepares to raise the curtains on a new era. The new Kabuki-za theatre, part...
Uganda deports British gay play producer

Uganda deports British gay play producer - 02/13/2013

KAMPALA- Uganda has deported a British theatre producer who last year staged a play about homosexuality, which is illegal in Uganda, the British High Commission said Tuesday. David Cecil was arrested...
Bolshoi and top dancer spar over acid attack claims

Bolshoi and top dancer spar over acid attack claims - 02/07/2013

MOSCOW- The general director of Russia's Bolshoi Theatre was engaged in a war of words Wednesday with a star dancer whom he blamed over the acid attack on its ballet chief Sergei Filin. Bolshoi...
Nureyev's legacy in spotlight, 20 years on

Nureyev's legacy in spotlight, 20 years on - 01/05/2013

PARIS, Marie-Pierre Ferey- Twenty years after his death, Rudolf Nureyev's legacy still lights up the world of ballet as brilliantly as the flamboyant performances which once illuminated the greatest...
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Star's cancer candor prompts cheers, but also caution

Star's cancer candor prompts cheers, but also caution
WASHINGTON, Robert MacPherson- Cancer campaigners cheered Angelina Jolie for going public Tuesday about her double mastectomy, but warned women against rushing out to be tested for the gene mutation that threatened her life. Not only is the BRCA1...