Tuesday, October 24, 2017
As Mark Shenton recently observed, there is a lot of new writing in London at the moment. The National Theatre only has
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Similar surnames excepted, Peter Brook and Mel Brooks are not two men with a huge amount in common. One is an avant-garde
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I wouldn’t say I blagged my way into professional theatre journalism. But looking back I understand why friends who thought of me
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I still remember the great excitement in my household when the National Lottery launched back in 1994. A legitimate, government-sanctioned way to
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Emma Rice, the outgoing artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, has been trapped on a default setting of ‘dignified silence’ – except for
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At this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, I got a bad review. A stinking, terrible lousy review. A hatchet job, if you will. And
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What has happened at Summerhall? During my nine-day stint at Edinburgh this year more than half the shows I saw were somewhere
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There’s something brilliantly incongruous about the New York Times’ Ben Brantley turning up to shows in London; a bit like that time
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMHarry Potter and the Cursed Child director John Tiffany has returned to the Royal Court with a play about a working-class town
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Let’s be totally honest, there was no perfect choice of artistic director to replace Emma Rice at Shakespeare’s Globe. There was no
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In 2014, I saw a play called Bakersfield Mist, a terrible American comedy that blithely squandered the acting talents of Ian McDiarmid
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The last vintage year for the British musical was 2011, when Matilda stormed the West End and London Road did something genuinely,
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“We’ll be taking money out of London,” said newly-minted ACE boss Nicholas Serota on Radio 4’s Today programme on Tuesday, aka NPO
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Long before the term ‘fake news’, there was ‘clickbait’ – the persistent suggestion that contemporary web journalism is being degraded by a
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After a weekend overindulging in the total ridiculousness of British politics, things were put into perspective on Monday morning when I awoke
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So that’s pretty much it then: the Globe’s latest production of Twelfth Night has opened, and it’s probably the last time Emma
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While I’m not one of those dreadful people who don’t watch TV, I am enough of a theatre wanker to moan constantly
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It wasn’t so long ago that the British press still had the nads to wander into a major new theatre show uninvited,
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The reactions to the inaugural season at Nicholas Hytner’s new Bridge Theatre have been a splash varied but generally positive: on the
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When The Stage asked me if I’d care to write an article comparing ITV’s two-hour Olivier Awards broadcast to the real thing,
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This year, the Olivier Awards are finally getting a decent, two-hour, prime-time TV slot, and not before bloody time. As you’re reading
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Amid the flurry of changes at the Olivier Awards this year – new venue, new host, plush new telly time slot –
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I genuinely love the Olivier Awards. They are literally the poshest event that anybody ever invites me to. And though gripes are
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Like many other minor theatre hacks, I’m sure, I recently allowed myself the brief, mad fantasy that I might apply for the
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This year, of all years, would be a good year for somebody to come up with that most elusive of theatrical beasts,
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One of the more niche side effects of the EU referendum is the egregious amount of soul-searching it’s induced in the UK
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I saw Hamilton on election night and it was really weird. I had wondered why Sam Rudy, the infamous PR gatekeeper to
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I absolutely, unequivocally love the theatre awards season, which gets underway properly with the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards – on Sunday
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I never thought I’d be moved to tears by anything but tedium by an Arts Council England document. But when ACE ‘dropped’
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Germany’s Ruhr region is a prosaic, post-industrial sprawl that is probably considerably more representative of the country as a whole than, say,
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