After a careful summer, The Royal Ballet reopens its post-lockdown season with the packed stage of Romeo and Juliet. Passionate duets, wrangling families and Renaissance brawls come spilling across ...

As at least one great Russian ballet company has previously found to its cost, bringing any staging of Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet to London – whose ballet-goers are used to the Royal Ballet’s ...

Sixty years on Kenneth MacMillan’s first full-evening work is staged by ballet companies around the world, its renown having long since overtaken that of the 1940s Russian production which partially ...

Considering Kenneth MacMillan’s production of Romeo and Juliet is 60 years old and it looks as fresh as a daisy. This is no mean feat. As when a company is familiar with a ballet it can become stale ...

LONDON (Reuters) - As a young aspiring ballerina, Francesca Hayward would repeatedly practise making an entrance as Romeo's Juliet, pretending her living room was a live auditorium. Years later, the ...

Because there’s nothing quite like R&J for pulling a company together, with its teeming streetlife of squabbling servants, harlots and henchmen, its colourful elite and its stellar solo choreography, ...

WOW! Birmingham Royal Ballet’s take on Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet is breathtakingly wonderful from staging to corps de ballet – and everything in between. Paul Andrews’ touring set is ...

Watch as Anna Rose O'Sullivan as Juliet and Marcelino Sambé as Romeo perform the Balcony pas de deux from The Royal Ballet's classic ballet. On 20 February 2022, catch an Encore screening of Kenneth ...

Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet, set to the evocative score by Sergey Prokofiev, is one of the Royal Ballet’s best-loved works. Premiered in 1965, last night was the 537th performance, though ...