Jewels

A marriage of inconvenience: The Bride Stone, by Sally Gardner, reviewed

26 July 2025 9:00 am

His capricious father’s will leaves a young English doctor needing to find a wife within two days and seven hours of his return home from revolutionary France

50 not out

12 August 2023 9:00 am

In 2015 Carlos Acosta announced his retirement from the Royal Ballet and the classical repertory. It seemed like the right…

Ekaterina Krysanova and Vyacheslav Lopatin in Balanchine’s ‘Rubies’

A trio of gems

17 August 2013 9:00 am

Jewels is everything a George Balanchine admirer could ask for. The sumptuous triptych, set to scores by Fauré, Stravinsky and…