Royal Ballet Puts Frederick Ashton Back at Center Stage
By ROSLYN SULCAS
A new program at the Royal Ballet featuring Frederick Ashton's works makes up for the relative paucity of the choreographer's shows in the last decade.
After 40 years, the way has been cleared to complete Mr. Welles’s unfinished final opus, “The Other Side of the Wind.”
A new program at the Royal Ballet featuring Frederick Ashton's works makes up for the relative paucity of the choreographer's shows in the last decade.
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Wendy Whelan gave her final performances with New York City Ballet after a 30-year career that created roles for some of the most notable ballets of the 21st century.
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“Cubism: The Leonard A. Lauder Collection” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art showcases Picasso, Braque, Gris and Léger and one man’s generosity.
Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s comedy “Birdman” stars Michael Keaton as a onetime movie superhero betting his career on a strange Broadway play.
Plácido Domingo plays a frail, aging man in Verdi’s “I Due Foscari” at the Royal Opera House in London.
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