Britain. It saw the abolition of the death penalty and the arrival of the Race Relations Act. It was the year of the Mary Quant miniskirt and “Satisfaction” by The Rolling Stones. While cinema-goers ...

In 1965, when Kenneth MacMillan created this Romeo, he was following the worldwide success of the Bolshoi Ballet production – an epic, grand-scale approach that had wowed the West in 1956.

Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet continues to enjoy endless popularity, this being its third run by the Royal Ballet since 2019, but when the results are as good, there’s no reason why not.

With Romeo and Juliet, Kenneth MacMillan took a middle-ranking Shakespeare play and alchemised it into one of the 20th century’s most astonishingly stirring works of art. Certainly, seeing it 60 years ...

This ballet is old enough to nab a Freedom Pass, but refuses to act its age. Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet premiered in 1965, but 60 years on the wrenching tragedy, stippled with detail, ...

Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet celebrates its 60th anniversary with a production that remains as timeless as ever, ...

Kenneth MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet, set to the evocative score by Sergey Prokofiev, is one of the Royal Ballet’s best-loved ...

Kenneth MacMillan’s first three-act ballet still retains a startling intensity and freshness. Here are Shakespeare’s lovers shown pitted against the overbearing might of society – emphasised ...

The following films are on at the Hollywood Plaza and Stephen Joseph Theatre, both in Scarborough, from Thursday March 20.