Friday, July 27, 2018
I 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…
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMProvincetown, a historic town at the farthest tip of Cape Cod where the pilgrim voyagers aboard the Mayflower first made landfall in
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You can only be first once – so it’s amazing that there are still glass ceilings for minority theatremakers to break. From
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With a with a title like This Ain’t No Disco it’s tempting to reply that this ain’t no musical, either. Instead, it’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PMAfter Mart Crowley found success with his groundbreaking 1968 play The Boys in the Band, about the lives of gay men in
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It’s a bittersweet fact that Lyn Gardner topped the lists of both the most regularly read and most valued critics from respondents
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When The King and I opened at the London Palladium earlier this month, more than one critic trotted out the current favourite
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Yet again, an understudy has saved the day. Only last month I was writing about how these unsung heroes embody the essential
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Theatre has begun to confront its long-time problems around sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour in the workplace. This has led to the
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The Stage was one of several publications this week that believed it had seen Ruthie Ann Miles reprise her Tony-award winning performance
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After making her name as a director adapting much-loved, classic stories, Sally Cookson is now bringing a contemporary novel to the stage.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThe current culture wars of civility, or the lack of it, stretches to the White House. Donald Trump’s election victory, and the
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I’ve just experienced my first ever ocean cruise… okay, it was only the North Sea, not trans-Atlantic, but I’m a convert to
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In America, naming rights for theatres and concert halls aren’t just an honour, but something to be bought, sold and traded. In
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Jeanine Tesori has been described as ‘the most prolific and honoured female theatrical composer in history’. Now two of her hits, Fun
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The West End, similar to Broadway, thrives on a bit of star power. As Matt Wolf recently noted in the New York
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From Cromer pier to the Garrick, and Jimmy Tarbuck to Kenneth Branagh, producer Edward Snape has worked his way up to the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMChorus dancer Peggy Sawyer is told: “You’re going out there a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star,” when she
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Two years ago, Taylor Mac combined eight three-hour shows into a one-off event that saw the performer on stage for a full
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Football clubs have transfer windows – specific periods throughout the year when they can sign and sell players in and out of
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Whether in a supporting part or as a leading man, the Olivier and Tony award-winning actor always leaves his mark. As he
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While the Olivier Awards have upped the ante in the glamour stakes by relocating for the last two years to the Royal
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It’s Gay Pride month in New York, and even the free Playbill programmes given out at every Broadway theatre have turned rainbow
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:17AMThe West End is dominated by musicals in terms of attendance, revenue and longevity. While plays are shoehorned into 14 or 15-week
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The American Theatre Wing, launched by suffragettes, is the organisation behind the biggest night on Broadway. Mark Shenton meets its president, Heather
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMAs the actor makes her West End debut in Bartlett Sher’s Tony award-winning revival of The King and I, she talks to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMWhen Glenda Jackson plays King Lear or Michelle Terry plays Hamlet, it seems paradoxical that they are eligible for best female performance
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The perfect juxtaposition of country-house charm in venue and urban sophistication in material, this joyous revival of Frank Loesser’s 1950 Broadway classic
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Every generation has its foremost playwrights, from George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, to Harley Granville-Barker and Terence Rattigan, John Osborne and
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No one can see everything: it just isn’t possible. It’s one of the reasons we need critics: they see things so that
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The ‘standard’, default start time for Broadway shows used to be 8pm, with Wednesday and Saturday matinees at 2pm and Sunday matinees
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