• On my radar: Tarell Alvin McCraney’s cultural highlights

    The playwright and actor on the sounds and flavours of Miami, why Claire Foy makes The Crown unmissable, and the peculiar pleasure of tweeting gifs of Yul BrynnerTarell Alvin McCraney was born in Liberty City in Miami, Florida and attended Yale School of Drama, where he received the Cole Porter playwriting award. Between 2008 and 2010 he was international writer in residence for the Royal Shakespeare Company, where he remains an associate artist. His semi-autobiographical 2003 play, In Moonlight
  • The week in dance: Le Jeune Homme et la Mort/La Sylphide review – darkly enjoyable

    Coliseum, London
    Tamara Rojo and Ivan Vasiliev are superb as a painter and his cruel muse in a subversive ENB double billEnglish National Ballet, to borrow from TS Eliot, are much possessed by death. They see the skull beneath the skin. Their current season at the Coliseum opened two weeks ago with a double bill of Song of the Earth and La Sylphide, and last week replaced the former with Le Jeune Homme et la Mort. All three, in very different ways, examine notions of mortality.If Kenneth MacMill

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