Friday, May 25, 2018
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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We have a thriving theatre culture in the UK, both on professional stages and with more than 2,500 amateur dramatic companies, which
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Inspired by Chita Rivera and advised by Bill Kenwright to stop ‘wasting her time’ in Australia, Caroline O’Connor became a musical star
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The theatre world is quite a small one and I spend a lot of time immersed in it, both as a critic
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At the beginning of March, Theatre Royal Stratford East held a two-day showcase called Beam 2018, featuring more than 50 new musicals
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“Perpetual anticipation is good for the soul but it’s bad for the heart,” goes a refrain in A Little Night Music. The
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I have written so often about the disappearing landscape of contemporary theatre criticism, both in the UK and New York, that I
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I’ve heard some arbitrary reasons for policing audience behaviour before, but few as genuinely outrageous as English National Opera’s ban on externally
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In an admittedly sparser-than-usual year for Tony eligible shows – just 33 new shows opened on Broadway in the 2017/18 season, and
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Now appearing in Chess at the London Coliseum, the performer and pop star tells Mark Shenton how the loss of her mother
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After a recent spate of jukebox musicals, it’s a thrill to welcome an entirely original British musical to the stage. Gus Gowland’s
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We are living in culturally complicated times and are constantly having to re-calibrate some of the apparent certainties we’ve lived with uncritically
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The historic market town of Cirencester in the Cotswolds is famous for its agricultural college and its polo club. But until now
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This new musical based on J Meade Falkner’s melodramatic Victorian 1898 novel, Moonfleet is a lumpen, deadly earnest affair. The story swirls
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“I want the next couple of hours to be a show everyone remembers forever!”, declares one of the three actresses who portrays
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Even before its official opening, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child has been breaking all previous Broadway sales records, by a wide
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“You already know you’re going to love it!” proclaims the advertising slogan for Mamma Mia!, now heading for its 20th anniversary in
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Lerner and Loewe’s 1956 version of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion has long provided the gold standard for musical adaptations. It both honours
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“Sail on, sail on, good ship Titanic!”, goes a thrilling choral refrain in this Broadway-originated musical, and so does Thom Southerland’s boldly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMIt’s that time of year when Broadway’s critics are at their busiest (and, some might say, their most cranky). On consecutive nights,
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In the wake of last Sunday’s failure by the Oliviers to include Peter Hall in its In Memoriam sequence, not only have
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It’s no longer just the elephant in the room but a blazing three-alarm signal: how today do we to read the apparent
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Mark Medoff’s Children of a Lesser God premiered on Broadway 38 years ago. It still holds up very well. The play is
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In the end, there were no major upsets at the 2018 Olivier Awards, presented on April 8 at the Royal Albert Hall.
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The American high school system has spawned any number of hit musicals, from Grease and Hairspray to High School Musical and last
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Going to the theatre is primarily about the show you see in front of you; but it’s far from the entirety of
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Theatre, to paraphrase Hamilton, is first and foremost about being in the room where it happens. If for Hamlet the readiness is
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As Trump continues to band the term “fake news” at every media outlet except Fox News, we are more in need of
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Edward Albee won his third Pulitzer prize for this 1991 play. Belatedly it now makes its Broadway debut a year and a
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In what now feels like the far-off days of David Cameron being prime minister, he once channelled Michael Winner during a House
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