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From roadside chutes to backcountry cascades, tiny slides to dramatic plunges, Maine’s waterfalls are splashy treasures.

For NORPA, the Lismore flood was devastating but has also given the arts company the opportunity to reappraise what theatre is and can be.

The Indian high commission had an impressive ceremony to bestow Padma Shri awards on two British friends of India.

British member of Parliament Barry Gardiner and late British theatre director Peter Brook were formally conferred their Padma Shri awards at a special ceremony at India House in London.

Her acting was self-critical and unsentimental, driven, director Charles Marowitz said, by a “loathing for lame and easy effects.”

Akram Khan is an internationally renowned dancer who performed at the opening ceremony of London Olympics. Listening to him at G5 A theatre last evening one

Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning performer who had a long second career as a British lawmaker, has died. She was 87. Jackson’s agent Lionel Larner said she died Thursday

Glenda Jackson, a two-time Academy Award-winning performer who had a second career in politics as a British lawmaker before an acclaimed late-life return to stage and screen, has died at age 87. Jackson’s agent Lionel Larner said she died Thursday at her home in London after a short illness. He said she had recently completed…

She didn’t so much enter the restaurant as erupt into it, a fast-burning blaze of psychic exasperation that seemed to set the silverware rattling

Two people who watched the actor and Labour politician closely remember the desire to get to the truth that made her so powerful on stage, screen and in parliament