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Friday, November 18, 2016

Mark Shenton’s top 10 UK theatre cities by Mark Shenton

Maybe this is obvious. But at The Stage, we strive to cover not just London, but all points north, east, south and

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Thursday, November 17, 2016

The Tempest review at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon – ‘gimmicky, but Simon Russell Beale soars’ by Mark Shenton

While the board at Shakespeare’s Globe has recently reasserted the importance of original practices at the South Bank venue, the Royal Shakespeare

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Jeremy Irvine: ‘Movies are great, but you should always come back to the theatre’ by Mark Shenton

There’s a long line of young British actors who, having trained at British drama schools and launched their careers on the London

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Julian Fellowes: ‘Rep was great – you slept with everyone, got drunk and had fun’ by Mark Shenton

Julian Fellowes has pulled off a remarkable feat this week. On November 14, the stage version of School of Rock, a musical

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Mark Shenton: Theatre Brits invading Broadway find a different work culture by Mark Shenton

Sting’s new album is called 57th and 9th – and the Tyneside-born singer-songwriter who wrote the hit song An Englishman in New

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Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Hair review at Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester – ‘a natural high’ by Mark Shenton

In Hair, one of the principal characters, Claude Bukowski, is greatly enamoured of “Manchester, England, England/ Across the Atlantic Sea”, and completes

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First Projects Announced for Manchester International Festival in U.K. by Mark Shenton

Program to include new collaboration between Simon Stephens, Karl Hyde, and Scott Graham.

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Stephen Karam’s Speech & Debate to Receive U.K. Premiere by Mark Shenton

Tom Attenborough will direct.

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London’s Donmar Annnounces Three Productions: New Play, New Musical, and Brecht’s Arturo Ui by Mark Shenton

Artistic director Josie Rourke says her new season, dubbed The Power Season, deals with “truth and accountability.”

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Mark Shenton: The London Evening Standard Awards’ focus on fame demeans worthy winners by Mark Shenton

It was a lovely gesture at this year’s London Evening Standard Theatre Awards that the upper circle of the Old Vic was

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Monday, November 14, 2016

School of Rock review at the New London Theatre – ‘fresh, funny and heartwarming’ by Mark Shenton

When imposter supply teacher Dewey Finn asks his young students to demonstrate their singing ability, one of his charges bursts into Memory

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Jesus Christ Superstar to Return to London's Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park in 2017 by Mark Shenton

The production just won the Evening Standard Award for Best Musical.

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Mark Shenton’s week: The healing power of cabaret by Mark Shenton

It’s no secret that my favourite form of theatre is the musical. The genre can elicit a kind of theatrical ecstasy few

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School of Rock Makes London Premiere Today by Mark Shenton

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical is playing at the same theatre where Cats opened 35 years ago.

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Sunday, November 13, 2016

London’s Evening Standard Theatre Awards Presented Tonight by Mark Shenton

Elton John co-hosts the awards event.

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Saturday, November 12, 2016

What’s Hot in London: November 5-11 by Mark Shenton

Julian Fellowes to have a busy week of London openings, American transfers pack British theatres, and critics review Lazarus and Glenda Jackson’s stage return.

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Friday, November 11, 2016

Mark Shenton’s top 10 daytime theatrical hangouts in London by Mark Shenton

Most West End theatres come to life only about an hour before show time so, apart from the box office, are empty by

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Thursday, November 10, 2016

London’s Orange Tree to Offer U.K. Premiere of Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon by Mark Shenton

The season will also include plays by Clare McIntyre and Marivaux.

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Yank! and Little Women to Receive U.K. Stage Premieres in Manchester by Mark Shenton

Season will also include a new British musical The Stationmaster.

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Casting Announced for National Productions of Twelfth Night and Ugly Lies the Bone by Mark Shenton

The London venue will also present the world premiere of Consent.

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Ann Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom: Divalicious review at the Pheasantry – ‘stunning’ by Mark Shenton

Two of the greatest of all American cabaret singer-songwriters Ann Hampton Callaway and Amanda McBroom have both been regular visitors to these

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Fiona Allan: ‘I’d like to turn the Hippodrome into a Barbican for Birmingham’ by Mark Shenton

We’re at a critical crossroads for British theatre. On the one hand, the West End is thriving as never before, and yet

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Mark Shenton: Will Hope Mill Theatre become Manchester’s Menier Chocolate Factory? by Mark Shenton

London’s Menier Chocolate Factory has become one of London’s biggest success stories, supplying more shows to the West End and Broadway than

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Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Mark Shenton: Producers must be given credit where it’s due by Mark Shenton

This week David Bowie’s Lazarus opened in London, after premiering Off-Broadway in December 2015. Above the title, it is billed as the

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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

David Bowie’s Lazarus review at King’s Cross Theatre, London – ‘stunningly staged’ by Mark Shenton

Blazingly original and disconcertingly weird, Lazarus is of a piece with its principal creator David Bowie’s own artistic output. This was his

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New Musical Version of The Wind in the Willows to Open at London Palladium by Mark Shenton

With a score by Stiles and Drewe and book by Julian Fellowes, the show stars Rufus Hound as Mr. Toad.

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David Bowie’s Lazarus Opens in London Tonight by Mark Shenton

Michael C. Hall, Michael Esper, and Sophia Anne Caruso reprise their New York roles in the production.

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