Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. The Australian Ballet has announced that their global live stream series ...

True love is nothing to laugh at, and yet when Harlequin expressed his passion for Columbine, the devotion came with a side of drollness. When this motley-clad jester leapt in ardor, his feet batted ...

Kenny Easter thought he was done with ballet. After years on the stages of New York, retiring from dance at 40 sounded perfectly reasonable — until a call came from his colleagues at the American ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. In 2018 on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the birth of legendary ...

NEW YORK — Harlequin has a problem. He wishes to marry his love, Columbine, but her father rejects him as too poor and keeps her locked up. Lucky for Harlequin, he and the others are fictional ...

When Marius Petipa debuted “Harlequinade” in the winter of 1900, he was a ripe 82 years old, at the end of a legendary 50-year career. In his time, he essentially created the dance language, still ...

The Segerstrom Center’s special relationship with American Ballet Theatre continues this month with the West Coast premiere of a new full-length ballet. In “Harlequinade,” ABT’s acclaimed Alexei ...

It’s an age-old story. Columbine has her eye on Harlequin but her father doesn’t approve. He’s determined to have her marry the wealthy older suitor he selected for her in “Harlequinade: An Italian ...

“Harlequinade,” American Ballet Theatre’s new production coming to Costa Mesa next week, is a lush re-creation of a largely forgotten ballet from 1900 and, for the ABT costume team, a visual spectacle ...

Why didn’t it please? I’ve always thought it was because Americans, always happy with a romantic comedy like Coppélia, are just not accustomed to the hard-edged, even cruel comedy of the commédia ...