Music

A host of West End stars have thanked NHS heroes and key workers with an amazing musical tribute. Created by Alpha Club and posted to their YouTube channel, the talented ensemble sing their version of From Now On, a track from The Greatest Showman - all while at home. The beautiful rendition features well-known West End stars including Jonny Purchase, Sorsha Talbot-Hunt and Lisa Bridge. The Alpha Club has also launched The Alpha Auction, a celebrity auction to raise funds for The Carers Trust, a charity that supports unpaid carers in the UK and which Princess Anne is president of. The exclusive auction prizes range from money-can't-buy experiences to celebrity meet-and-greets, including VIP Glastonbury 2021 tickets and use of cricket legend Kevin Pietersen's South African safari lodge. The auction will run until midnight on Wednesday May 20, and all donations go directly to The Carers Trust. … [Read more...] about VIDEO: West End stars thank NHS heroes with emotional musical tribute

➽ The service has some ultratheatrical pieces like Kidd Pivot’s Betroffenheit, and its classical section boasts a full house of Giselles and Nutcrackers. I prefer to drink deep from its international contemporary dance offerings, so I watched Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s Sutra, the 2008 dance that turbocharged his global reputation. Filmed at Sadler’s Wells, Cherkaoui’s collaboration with the Shaolin Temple’s monks and designer-sculptor Antony Gormley admittedly grows a little cool onscreen. What translates beautifully, though, is the arrangement of bodies and objects, as the kung fu dancers manipulate, disappear into, and jump off a series of wooden crates, like ancient Chinese terra-cotta soldiers cartwheeling out of their long sleep. … [Read more...] about Where to Stream Great Dance Performances

“One of the most beautiful things about Star Trek is that you have people who see this show and they want to be scientists. They want to get into space. They want to make to make it to the future in one piece, and I think that is incredibly beautiful, because we do have to celebrate a progression of our species because right now it feels as though we need a little help, and there’s nothing like the guiding light that Gene Rodenberry hung in the sky.” … [Read more...] about Comic-Con: Bryan Fuller Led a