Friday, October 5, 2018
Our associate editor, Broadway critic and resident musical theatre expert Mark Shenton is counting down his favourite 50 songs in the history
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, October 3, 2018
This stage version of Alan Parker’s 1980 film has been kicking around for 30 years now. It bears only a passing resemblance
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:21AMOne of theatre’s biggest preoccupations is accessibility; and it concerns both who gets to put shows on and who comes to see
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, October 1, 2018
News, reviews, interviews and farewells of the week in London, New York and the regions, including social media influencers, Pinter in the West End and more.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, September 28, 2018
Our associate editor, Broadway critic and resident musical theatre expert Mark Shenton is counting down his favourite 50 songs in the history
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Critics have a triple responsibility: we have to simultaneously record theatre history in the moment of its making, and honour its past,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, September 24, 2018
News, reviews, interviews, commentary and farewells from London, New York and beyond, including The Stage Debut Awards, Sylvia at the Old Vic and regional openings in Chichester and Bristol.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, September 21, 2018
The essence of theatre is its liveness – that it is a mutable art form, and that plays or musicals will change
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, September 19, 2018
Hit shows are not created in a vacuum, but sometimes they fill one. Success breeds imitation and more success – and some
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, September 17, 2018
News, reviews, controversies and commentary from the West End and Broadway, including the first West End job share and the re-opening of the Kiln Theatre (formerly the Tricycle).
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, September 14, 2018
It all started, with what now seems like grim inevitability, when the Independent on Sunday laid off all of its critics in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, September 12, 2018
“Do you hear the people sing?” goes the call to arms in Les Miserables, a musical that is now the longest-running in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, September 10, 2018
Friday, September 7, 2018
In the constantly shifting tectonic plates of theatre land, we are seeing the biggest upheaval in some time. Not one or two,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMSummer theatre highlights in Provincetown, Cape Cod and Boston, including appearances by Audra McDonald, Marilyn Maye, Randy Rainbow, drag bingo and music at Herring Cove beach -- plus Mouli…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, September 5, 2018
Donald Trump hasn’t (yet) slapped a punitive tariff on theatrical shows crossing the Atlantic, even though Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, September 3, 2018
Mark Shenton rounds up the latest news, reviews, podcasts and more from London and Broadway, including Prince Harry at Hamilton and Lin-Manuel Miranda at Southwark Playhouse.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, August 29, 2018
If I have found some relief from my habit of compulsive theatregoing that I typically adopt in London and New York whenever I’m there, the temptation is never too far away. So I’m partic…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, August 27, 2018
Mark Shenton offers a wrap-up of news from the West End, Broadway and Edinburgh, including the West End transfer of Waitress, Edward Hall saying farewell to Hampstead Theatre and Laura Benan…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, August 23, 2018
Provincetown, of course, is not an entirely theatre-free zone — there’s plenty live entertainment, from a lot of drag cabarets to male strip shows and piano bars, to enjoy.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMMonday, August 20, 2018
News, reviews, controversies and interviews of the week from London to Broadway, by way of Edinburgh, including the ‘banning’ of Mazz Murray from singing a song from Dreamgirls, Edinburg…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMThursday, August 16, 2018
In this stage musical adaptation of the 1990 film Pretty Woman, Sweet Charity meets My Fair Lady, but with a happier ending.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PMTuesday, August 14, 2018
Mark Shenton rounds up news of singalong performances of Bat Out of Hell, reviews of Aristocrats, Bring It On and Little Shop of Horrors and an extract from an interview with Kathleen Turner.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMMonday, August 13, 2018
Classic rock tracks are played as you enter the theatre. But the show that follows could only dream of containing a single
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PMMonday, August 6, 2018
From news headlines and Twitter gems to must-read columns and the biggest openings in London, New York and Edinburgh, Mark Shenton - currently resident in Provincetown, Massachusetts for the…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMEarlier this week, Fiona Mountford, theatre critic for the Evening Standard, raised the question: “I am so tired of seeing some male
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, August 5, 2018
The first thing that knocks you out is the theatre itself. The stage is covered in glistening and glowing reds and features
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15PMMonday, July 30, 2018
Saturday, July 28, 2018
I’m reminded more than ever of a time, not so very long ago, where instead of using Twitter to attack each other, we used to use it to engage with each other and find common ground, even f…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMFriday, July 27, 2018
After the short-lived West End disaster of Viva Forever! in 2012, based on the back catalogue of the Spice Girls, building another
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMI came to a belated realisation: my life was not a dress rehearsal — and it really didn’t matter if I missed a few (dozen) shows. So when it came to booking this year’s P-town trip, wh…
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