Culture news

'If there is art, life goes on': Kyiv theatre company takes shelter

Since the war began, the Pro-English theatre company, decided to stay in the basement of the theatre, where they continue to practice their art

24 March 2022

Culture news

Italy ready to rebuild bombed Mariupol theatre

Ukraine say the theatre was hit by a Russian airstrike on Wednesday while people sheltered there from bombardments. Russia denied striking the theatre.

18 March 2022

Culture news

Creative industries put pressure on Brussels over ticket resales

A group of 150 organisations representing Europe's creative industries are lobbying Brussels to clamp down on "exploitative" ticket resale market

14 March 2022

Culture news

K-pop's high octane energy aims to thrill London's West End audiences

In a case of art imitating life, the fictional Icon boy band will be performing a farewell concert as one of their members has to go off to do his compulsory national service in the South Korean military.

12 March 2022

Culture news

Roma actress smashes stigma in Bucharest Theatre's one-woman-show

Growing up Alina Serban didn't see herself represented on television, in movies or books. Shunned from the cultural mainstream, she is taking matters into her own hands.

3 February 2022

Art

Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov makes it to Germany after ban

Serebrennikov said last Friday he had "no idea" why he had been allowed travel to Hamburg after being confined to Moscow for years.

18 January 2022

Scenes

The street actors spreading awareness about social issues in India

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"'Nukkad natak' is a very participatory process, and I think that is the beauty of it because that gives it a scope of having people's voices or diverse voices"

17 January 2022

Culture news

Molière at 400: Meet the finest playwright, actor and poet of France

Regarded as one of the greatest writers in the French language and indeed, world literature, Euronews Culture celebrates the 400th anniversary of Molière's birth.

14 January 2022

Culture news

Molière at 400: French high school students celebrate the great poet

At the Lycée Montaigne in Paris, students are re-enacting excerpts from his plays in a show highlighting violence against women, and Molière's modernity.

10 January 2022

Culture news

Cancellation of London's VAULT Festival lamented by theatre community

Once again, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the cancellation of VAULT Festival, London's annual celebration of the performing arts. With little or no government support, artists and organisers discuss the current state of British theatre.

6 January 2022

Culture news

Madrid's COVID-hit 'La Boheme' replaces both casts in just 24 hours

The opera encountered staggering complications when members of both cast rotations tested positive, forcing them to get creative.

4 January 2022

Culture news

French cinemas to ban popcorn as COVID-19 restrictions tighten

In an effort to suppress an unprecedented surge in COVID-19 numbers, French cinemas will ban food and drinks from being sold in cinemas.

30 December 2021

Culture news

Euroviews. Culture 2021 Year in Review - The Actor: Lauryn Redding

Taken out of two plays, major knee surgery, then diagnosed with PTSD. Actor and writer Lauryn Redding spent the best part of 2021 getting back on her feet. Literally.

29 December 2021

Culture news

Belgium's Council of State overturns government theatre closure

The slap in the face for the government came on Tuesday afternoon.

28 December 2021

Culture news

Euroviews. Culture 2021 Year in Review - The Conductor: Classics, COVID & Cameras

How have orchestras coped with shutdowns, lack of support and having to adapt to audience-free performances? Conductor Ben Glassberg tells Euronews Culture about his experience of 2021.

28 December 2021

Culture news

Antony Sher: Shakespearean specialist who had stage fright dies at 72

After winning acclaim as a pillar of British theatre, Sher began to explore both his Jewish and his South African heritage.

3 December 2021

Culture news

Romanian prisoners take to the stage in annual theatre festival

Every winter, inmates from Romanian jails begin rehearsals for an on-stage production performed at the 'Liberation Through Culture' festival. Organisers say it's an immense help to what they do with the rest of their sentences.

2 December 2021

Culture news

Alexis Michalik brings Broadway to Paris with 'The Producers'

With famous lines like 'Springtime for Hitler and Germany...Winter for Poland and France,' how will Mel Brooks' classic go down in Paris?

2 December 2021

Culture news

Stephen Sondheim, musical theatre legend and writer of 'Sweeney Todd', dies aged 91

Sondheim influenced several generations of theatre songwriters, particularly with such landmark musicals as “Company,” “Follies” and “Sweeney Todd."

27 November 2021

Musica

Wagner's epic 'Die Meistersinger' electrifies the Met

The Metropolitan Opera in New York stages the longest opera in the repertoire and also marks the triumphant return of Maestro Antonio Pappano to its podium for the first time in nearly 25 years.

18 November 2021