Friday, August 30, 2019
Musical theatre is good for your health. Look at Jule Styne, composer of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gypsy and beyond. He was working
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PMWednesday, August 28, 2019
Angela Lansbury, furiously lit up with self-belief, slaying the audience as she devoured Rose’s Turn in Gypsy; Elaine Stritch weaving seamlessly in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:18AMWednesday, August 21, 2019
In the Olympics of Great Movie Taglines, I long ago declared a dead heat between the two horror pictures The Dentist 2
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, August 14, 2019
Anyone lucky enough to have seen Ian Rickson’s magnetic recent production of Duncan Macmillan’s version of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm at the Duke of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, August 6, 2019
Long before the current row about the Society of London Theatre possibly limiting the number of producers eligible for Olivier award statuettes,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMWednesday, July 31, 2019
At the risk of appearing pernickety (or, intriguingly, for American readers, persnickety) there are theatreland words and phrases I truly loathe. Jostling
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, July 24, 2019
“Everybody’s pickin’ up on that feline beat.” That was Floyd Huddleston and Al Rinker’s thinking in 1970 when they wrote the line
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, July 17, 2019
Regrets, as Frank Sinatra was given to singing, I’ve had a few, but then again is missing the musical Time among them?
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, July 10, 2019
While some musical theatre aficionados, myself included, know more than our fair share about queens, we know rather less about the Queen’s.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, July 8, 2019
Multi-instrumentalist Mike Davis has played for shows from Follies and Gypsy to Grease and Everybody’s Talking About Jamie. He tells David Benedict
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“Never does one understand so well the failure of women in art as when one sees them deliberately impersonating men upon the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, June 26, 2019
Over an eye-widening 32 seasons, Kirstie and Phil have consistently reminded us of the importance of location, location, location. What they have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, June 19, 2019
It was songwriter Irving Berlin who, in 1946 for his Annie Get Your Gun, taught the world that: “There’s no business like
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
When someone buys me a theatrical time machine, the first place I shall travel to will be the opening of Harold Pinter’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, June 5, 2019
Theatre, in days gone by, made its own stars. Neon lights shone with the names of actors whose careers had been made
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, May 29, 2019
“Ladies, this is your final call.” Emilia, the rumbustious, fiercely feminist biographical drama of Shakespeare’s ‘dark lady of the sonnets’, closes on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, May 22, 2019
Musical theatre quiz: hands up who knows the names and jobs of Roger Allers and Irene Mecchi. Hint: their work has been
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
“I do not at any point, in any way whatsoever, think of myself as a Jewish writer, except that I happen to
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I’m guessing that not many of you know the name Ervin Drake, but he wrote Frank Sinatra’s regretful hit It Was a
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I’ve always considered it a shame that although one can emerge from the theatre disappointed, in the opposite circumstance one cannot say:
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
I was 11 years old, terrified in a strange building and I blame Antony Hopkins. No, not the one who played Hannibal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
Nominated for the 1991 Booker prize, Reading Turgenev by the late, great Irish novelist William Trevor lost out to Ben Okri’s The
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“Who are the judges?” At least three high-profile nominees at Sunday’s Olivier awards asked me that question. They weren’t asking it out
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“I think the Eighties are going to be stupendous.” That’s the moment when the capital P political dimension of Caryl Churchill’s most
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Having caught the Lucinda Coxon adaptation of Harriet Lane’s novel Alys, Always during its final week at London’s Bridge Theatre – reader,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
“I hate musicals, I hate ’em.” So said Richard Hawley in an interview quoted last week on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMWednesday, August 29, 2018
Leading theatremakers including Vicky Featherstone, Rufus Norris, Dominic Cooke and Maxine Peake tell David Benedict about the writer’s influence on their work
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMThursday, June 7, 2018
Stage adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's novel is a one-woman tour de forceIn Harold Pinter’s memory play Old Times, one of the women declares, “There are some things one remembers ev…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 02:54AMWednesday, May 30, 2018
The stakes are high in the West End transfer of Nina Raine's play about marriage, rape and the law Question: is Consent, transferred from the National to the West End, a sharp-tongued c…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:12AMThursday, March 29, 2018
One part Angels in America to six parts Howards EndAbout a decade ago, theatre-makers started routinely describing themselves as being in the business of storytelling.
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:57AMSunday, February 11, 2018
The playwright-director reflects on his 1999 play, revived at the Donmar and Sheffield CrucibleFingers on buzzers… Question: What’s the connection between Days of Wine and Roses, Small C…
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