Sunday, March 11, 2018

What BBC3 Did For Women Composers On International Women's Day by Artsjournal2

This is what happened between March 8, 2017, and this year: "A group of trailblazing academics has spent the last 12 months tracking down the lost music of five forgotten women composers, wh…

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Monday, May 25, 2015

Tennis is great theatre

Sir Ian McKellen talks to Simon Mayo about Wimbledon and acting. Download the free podcast

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Casualty actor Simon MacCorkindale dies aged 58

After being diagnosed with cancer while working on Casualty, he left the drama and returned to the stage in the West End production of The Sound of Music until it closed in February 2009.

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The Strand - Monday 31st May 2010

The best of the world's arts, film, music, literature and music brought to you every day. Today, a special programme with actress Angela Lansbury. Presented by Mark Coles.

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Front Row

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Front Row

A special edition in tribute to the Nobel prizewinning playwright Harold Pinter, whose death has been announced. In this programme, first broadcast in 2005, Pinter gave a rare full-length in…

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Harold Pinter interview

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Harold Pinter timeline

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Moscow airport bomb: Ukraine writer Yablonskaya dead

The Moscow airport bomb blast killed a Ukrainian dramatist and poet, Anna Yablonskaya, who was on her way to get a prize for her play The Pagans.

SOURCE: BBC at 05:58PM

Actress Jill Clayburgh dies at 66

Hollywood, TV and Broadway actress Jill Clayburgh has died aged 66.

SOURCE: BBC at 05:58PM
Monday, April 20, 2015

Witness, Carousel - The Musical by Bbc World Service

In April 1945 one of the most successful musicals of all time premiered on Broadway. Carousel, by Rodgers and Hammerstein was a huge hit and Jean Darling was one of the original cast.

SOURCE: BBC at 11:48AM
Sunday, December 1, 2013

BBC News - Esa-Pekka Salonen: 10 tips to becoming a conductor by Alison Feeney-Hart

His career took off when he stood in at the last minute for a sick conductor when he was just 25. Almost 25 years later, he was recently named conductor of the year.

SOURCE: BBC at 01:46PM
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Front Row, Theatre Producers Special

Mark Lawson talks to leading theatre producers, including Cameron Mackintosh, Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bill Kenwright and Sonia Friedman, about the art of crea…

SOURCE: BBC at 09:48PM
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Digital Drama: The technology transforming theatre by Dougal Shaw

Some people in the theatre industry don't take kindly to the innovations that Mr Bird and his team at Knifedge are introducing to the stage.

SOURCE: BBC at 08:33PM
Friday, December 30, 2011

BBC News - Andrew Lloyd Webber predicts 2012 theatre 'bloodbath'

The Olympics will cause "a bloodbath of a summer" for London theatres in 2012, Andrew Lloyd Webber has predicted.

SOURCE: BBC at 08:06AM
Tuesday, November 22, 2011

One Man, Two Guvnors to be tweaked for Broadway by Tim Masters

Hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors has had a sell-out run at the National Theatre, toured the UK and is now in the West End, prior to a Broadway transfer.

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Monday, October 17, 2011

Front Row: Lynne Ramsay; Sir Cameron Mackintosh

Lynne Ramsay on directing We Need To Talk About Kevin; Sir Cameron Mackintosh at 65.

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Friday, July 29, 2011

Mark Rylance gives his Tony Award to a Wiltshire man

Actor Mark Rylance has given his Tony Award for his role in the Broadway hit Jerusalem to the man who partly inspired it.

SOURCE: BBC at 09:06AM
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Batman Live show on track after crash by Ian Youngs

The story of Batman has been told on stage for the first time at the premiere of an arena show that could tour the world for the next five years.

SOURCE: BBC at 03:02PM
Monday, July 4, 2011

BBC News - Opera by Billy Elliot writer Lee Hall cancelled over gay reference

An opera involving primary school pupils has been cancelled after the writer refused to remove references to a gay character's sexuality.

SOURCE: BBC at 10:45AM
Saturday, June 25, 2011

BBC - BBC Radio 2 Programmes - Come to the Cabaret, Episode 1

Wilkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome! Our master of ceremonies, Paul O'Grady, celebrates the magic of cabaret, from its Parisian origins to its present-day resurgence.

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BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Friday Play, Stone, Dead Fishes

A young man with Down's syndrome admits to killing his mother. Then a woman turns up claiming that he was with her on the day that his mother was killed. Stone must discover who is lying and…

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BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Afternoon Play: Hitched

Two plays by Doug Lucie which satirise our obsession with weddings and happy-ever-afters

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BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Afternoon Play, Shall I Say a Kiss?

In 1936, Morris met Eva at Warrington Deaf Club. An unusual transatlantic romance began. Drama starring two deaf actors, based on a true story. Dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal. Shall I Say …

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BBC - BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Saturday Play, Cause Celebre

The Old Vic Theatre's recent production of Terence Rattigan's gripping courtroom drama, directed by Thea Sharrock, starring Anne Marie Duff and Niamh Cusack.

SOURCE: BBC at 05:03PM

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May 30, 2023: Grey House - Lyceum Theatre
Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
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