Cathy Marston's first work for the Royal Opera House Main Stage is a lyrical memoir of the momentous life of the cellist Jacqueline du Pré, from her discovery of the cello through her celebrity as one of the most extraordinary players of the instrument to her frustration and struggle with multiple sclerosis. Rich and poignant, joyous and tragic, The Cellist draws on the talents of The Royal Ballet's Principals, Character Artists, Soloists and Corps to tell the moving story of the cellist's life. Composer Philip Feeney incorporates some of the most moving and powerful cello music of Elgar, Beethoven, Fauré, Mendelssohn, Piatti, Rachmaninoff and Schubert into an exquisite score that is itself an homage to the cello.

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed w...

Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert...

Humble Maria, who outfits top London theater star Ned Kynaston, takes none of the credit for the mal...

With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. H...

As members of the feuding Capulet and Montague families, Romeo and Juliet should be sworn enemies, b...

Isabella Eklöf is an unemployed actress in her early thirties. Her friends all enjoy stable relation...

The moving love story of a dancer on the rollercoaster ride of her life, a drama about the rise and ...

Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still n...

A young girl leaves her Nigerian village to attend a ballet school in England. Fascinated by Tchaiko...
Sometimes the drama backstage is better than anything on it... Sometimes the drama backstage threate...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

Pavel Pavlovich Goryaev is not that young of an actor. For many years he plays in the provincial the...

A popular high school athlete and an academically gifted girl get roles in the school musical and de...

After the death of her mother, Sara moves to the South Side of Chicago to live with her father and g...

Sara joins Julliard in New York to fulfill her and her mother's dream of becoming the Prima ballerin...

A young soprano becomes the obsession of a disfigured and murderous musical genius who lives beneath...

A group of 12 teenagers from various backgrounds enroll at the American Ballet Academy in New York t...

In a small, poor town, a young worker falls in love with an actress from a traveling theater troupe ...

The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, to give it its full title, by Christopher Marlowe, was first...

George Balanchine's jewel-themed triptych, strikingly choreographed to the music of Faure, Stravinsk...