23rd August – 1st September. The Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht is the largest festival of its kind in the world.…
Read more11th September – 17th October. Leaving Trumpland is a mix of stand-up and storytelling, with a bit of Trump-inspired improvisation…
Read more5th – 7th September. By award-winning British outdoor theatre company Illyria. This summer, let the award-winning company whisk you away…
Read more26th July – 2nd August. This summer there will be beautiful chamber music in Delft again. We invite you to…
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Lobke Nabuurs, business manager of RIDCC, is leaving the post after five years to take up the position of director at Nederlandse Dansdagen festival, an opportunity she felt she needed to take at this stage of her career. Lobke has been vital in growing RIDCC into what it is today and beyond.
Despite their artistic value and important public function, Holland Dance Festival, Kalpanarts, OFFprojects and Another Kind of Blue have not received a multi-year subsidy from the Performing Arts Fund for the period 2025 – 2028. This is a threat to The Hague’s Dance City.
It has been announced today that STET, The English Theatre in The Hague’s application for structural funding from the Municipality was not successful. This means that from 2025 onwards STET in its present form will close its doors.
The figures are totally lifelike with every pimple and nasal hair in place. One feels like a guilty viewer in a freak or peep show – intrusive and even perhaps a little embarrassed. But the giant figures exist in their own private Lilliput, gazed at by people only a quarter of their size, and they don’t care.
This week the Rijksmuseum started a campaign to recruit an Artist in Residence. Artists can submit proposals until 8th September, 2024 for the realization of a work of art or an artistic intervention based on the collection, history or other aspects of the Rijksmuseum.
ABN AMRO Art Prize supports promising female talent in their development and brings their work to the attention of the largest possible audience. As part of the prize, Selma Selman will receive an exhibition in the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and in the ABN AMRO Art Space on the Zuidas.
For the second edition of INTERNATIONAL we have reviews of two major opera productions – Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Vienna and we talk to the director of Tosca in Munich. We have a profile of a Scottish clown who is equally at home in the circus ring or playing Shakespeare . . .
In the works shown, Orwell’s tiny book Animal Farm provides the baseline for political, environmental and human rights, equality and our relationship with animals and plants, among others. Published in 1945, Orwell’s moral fable was a reaction to how fascist ambitious, self-seeking individuals, (Hitler or Stalin?), in the book depicted as pigs . . .
