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National Portrait Gallery announces reopening date in June

A new wing will host more than 100 years of British portraits in nine galleries as part of the redevelopment.

The Independent UK

The week in theatre: Orlando; Hex review – an elemental Emma Corrin, and a bit of a beast at the National

Corrin shape-shifts to perfection in Neil Bartlett’s zestful take on Virginia Woolf, while a bad fairy casts a spell on Rufus Norris

The Guardian - UK

A 'downtown' choreographer brings her craft to the opera

You could call choreographer Annie-B Parson a “downtown” choreographer

The Independent UK

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The Woolf pack: Renée Fleming and Joyce DiDonato on turning The Hours into opera

The Pulitzer-prize-winning, Mrs Dalloway-influenced novel about three generations of women, has finally hit the stage. Its stars tell us how they pulled it off

The Guardian - UK

Orlando at the Garrick Theatre review – Emma Corrin is captivating in this bold, tricksy experiment

Corrin anchors the show but it never feels like the emotional stakes are very high

Evening Standard

Orlando review – Emma Corrin is glorious in a giddy, heartfelt show

In Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s wild-goose chase through time, Corrin shines as the hero who falls asleep as a man and wakes as a woman

The Guardian - UK

Orlando review: Emma Corrin is magnificent as Woolf’s punk rock protagonist

Michael Grandage’s production has an inventiveness and creativity that’s true to the spirit of Virginia Woolf’s novel

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Playwright Neil Bartlett on bringing Virginia Woolf’s provocative, prescient novel Orlando to the stage in 2022

As Emma Corrin plays Virginia Woolf’s most thrilling, radical protagonist in a new West End production, its writer Neil Bartlett explores why it’s time to reintroduce ourselves to ‘Orlando’

The Independent UK

National Portrait Gallery will get new wing as part of refurbishment

The Blavatnik Wing will host portraits of Charles Darwin, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, the Bronte sisters and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.

Evening Standard

Star Soprano Renee Fleming Returns to Met Opera with 'The Hours'

A powerhouse trio of American song will interpret the voice of Virginia Woolf on New York's prestigious Metropolitan Opera stage, as the highly anticipated run of "The Hours" makes its world premiere Tuesday. The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Oscar-nominated film explores how threads of English writer Woolf's "Mrs.

Asharq Al-Awsat

‘It feels like something different’: turning The Hours into an opera

The acclaimed book and Oscar-winning movie, about three women grappling with despair, is making an unusual leap to the stage in New York

The Guardian - US

Star soprano Renee Fleming returns to Met opera with 'The Hours'

New York (AFP) - A powerhouse trio of American song will interpret the voice of Virginia Woolf on New York's prestigious Metropolitan Opera stage, as the highly anticipated run of "The Hours" makes its world premiere Tuesday.

AFP

After fine-tuning, 'The Hours' with Fleming opens at the Met

Kevin Puts’ “The Hours” has had more than a few hours of changes since it was first heard in a pair of concert performances in Philadelphia last March

The Independent UK

A Statue of One’s Own: the new Virginia Woolf sculpture that’s challenging stereotypes

Passersby are encouraged to take a selfie with the monument that artist Laury Dizengremel hopes will inspire women and girls

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‘It’s relatable’ … The Crown’s Emma Corrin on playing gender-swapping, time-travelling Orlando

The actor and the director Michael Grandage talk about how relevant their staging of Virginia Woolf’s classic work of gender fluidity feels – and remember their own queer battles

WEKU

Women's work is never done: a trio of art books showcasing women

Three new art books feature female subjects of every shape and hue from all over the world, doing the things that women have historically done — and also the things that men have historically done.

The Guardian - UK

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf audiobook review – Ruth Wilson captures the writer’s rhythms

The actor moves seamlessly between the multiple viewpoints in this vivid and poetic reading of Woolf’s experimental novel

Evening Standard

Who is Elizabeth Debicki as she stars as Princess Diana in The Crown?

Since it was announced that the 32-year-old would be playing the late royal in the Netflix drama’s most controversial season yet, all eyes have been on the notoriously private Australian actress. But who exactly is she? Emma Loffhagen reports

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TS Eliot’s Waste Land was a barren place. But at least a spirit of optimism still prevailed

A century on, the epic masterpiece speaks to today’s anxieties about loss of tradition

ABC News

The best new books released in September as selected by avid readers and critics

Our critics’ picks include a historical melodrama based on a real-life maybe murder, a romp through the illegal dance halls of 20s London and a gloriously biting satire set in Rwanda.

The Guardian - AU

Sophie Cunningham on the ‘crazy challenge’ of bringing Leonard and Virginia Woolf to life

The Melbourne author spent 16 years researching and writing her deeply original novel. In the process, This Devastating Fever became about the process too

The Conversation

Sophie Cunningham's pandemic novel admits literature can't save us – but treasures it for trying

“How good are novels!” So thinks protagonist Alice Fox in This Devastating Fever, the third novel from former publisher Sophie Cunningham. Alice is preparing to chair a panel at a writers’ festival, just as Covid-19 hits the headlines in March 2020.

The Guardian - UK

Sally Potter on making a film about violence with Chris Rock: ‘He is aware of what happens when a man feels humiliated’

In Look at Me, Rock is thrown to the floor by Javier Bardem. Potter discusses male anger in her film and the similarities between that and Rock’s real-life experience of being slapped by Will Smith at the Oscars

The Conversation

'Skin and sinew and breath and longing': reimagining the lives of queer artists and activists, from Sappho to Virginia Woolf

After Sappho, Selby Wynn Schwartz’s reimagining of the lives of 19th and 20th century women artists, activists and sapphists is a book I’ve always wanted to read. (And it’s just been longlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize.)

The Independent UK

‘Nothing really matters except the courage to be yourself’: Emma Corrin to star in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando in the West End

The groundbreaking exploration of gender identity is being adapted by famed playwright Neil Bartlett

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