Not even a minute after the first dancers appeared onstage at Segerstrom Center for the Arts on Friday did a band of pirates gambol in and demand the audience’s attention. Unsurprisingly in a ballet ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. With its bomb sites, rubble and rationing, London in 1946 was still scarred by war. Queues formed at bread shops, the city reeked, and ...