Thursday, June 15, 2017
“I’m tired to the death”, says Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s searing family drama. It has an even more chilling resonance for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMDubbed ‘the turnaround king’, the former Chichester Festival Theatre artistic director says he is back where he belongs after a surprisingly short-lived
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMAt the start of the week, David Lan announced his intention to step down from the helm of the Young Vic that
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The last Broadway season has just ended, with last weekend’s end-of-year celebration that is the Tony Awards. As ever, to the victors
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThe impact that gongs can have on the future of a show on Broadway means the risks – and the rewards –
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An artistic director looks after his or her own theatrical patch: the venue they’ve been appointed to programme and preside over. But
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:58AMTo get one set of largely negative reviews is perhaps a misfortune; to get a second round is starting to look like
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All four works nominated for this year’s best musical Tony Awards have something in common: their writers are relatively new to Broadway.
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After her breakthrough role in a Coen brothers’ film in 1990, the US star has gone on to win an Oscar and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThe movies do it all the time. Consider Star Wars: the original 1977 film, A New Hope, had two sequels (The Empire
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Musicals typically tell extraordinary stories. The powerful achievement of Working is to tell ordinary stories in an extraordinary way. Based on verbatim
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMThis Sunday the Tony Awards will be presented, marking the culmination of a really vibrant season in New York especially for new
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There’s no denying that Miranda Hart’s above-the-title billing as the star of Annie is unashamed stunt casting. She is a TV star
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27PMThe Almeida Theatre in London is currently advertising for an appointment as it seeks to make a new artistic associate. The associate will
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Newbury’s Watermill, located in a 200-year-old countryside mill barn and gardens beside a stream, is one of Britain’s most bucolic theatrical addresses.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMThis is the time of year when the profession prepares to welcome a new wave of 2017 drama school graduates. They’ve already
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Given the Other Palace’s intention to provide a home for the development of new musicals and the fact that many musicals are
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMLast week I saw yet another production of Julius Caesar, this time at Sheffield’s Crucible Theatre. As I noted in my review,
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The Regent’s Park summer musical has long been a fixture at the Open Air Theatre, but its increasing importance to the repertoire
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Last seen in the West End in 1992, Annie Get Your Gun has been more recently revived at the Young Vic in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMThe attack at Manchester Arena last week once again showed the vulnerability of places of live entertainment as targets for terrorism. It
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After founding the Union Theatre 20 years ago, the director juggles work on the London fringe with commercial tours. She tells Mark Shenton
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAs a London-based Asian female doctor boards a British Airways flight to India to attend a family wedding, she tells us how
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMIn summer, the arts take on a different complexion. Instead of a way of life, they become a destination, with cities and
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Half of this year’s Tony nominees for best play are by female playwrights – Lynn Nottage and Paula Vogel, for their plays
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In her brief tenure at Shakespeare’s Globe, Emma Rice has lit a fuse under the theatre’s original mission to devote itself to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43PMTheatre is a way of showing us lives far beyond our own experience; but it lets us into those stories by reflecting
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The first and most important thing to say about Robert Hastie’s inaugural production as artistic director at Sheffield Theatres is that the
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Each time The Color Purple gets smaller, it seems to grow larger in impact. It started life as a big Broadway musical
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AM“Never work with animals or children,” WC Fields famously declared. The cast of Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, now at the Royal Court
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The last few months have seen a slew of UK premieres of previously unseen American musicals, from the massive Dreamgirls, which took
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