Wednesday, February 7, 2018
A theatre is more than just a building you visit to see a show. Cinemas, on the other hand, especially in the
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Being a production manager for tours and West End hits wasn’t enough for Lee Batty, so he began associate-producing the Olivier Awards.
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The flames of artistic passion only flicker intermittently in Terrence McNally’s new, surprisingly inert and dreary depiction of the muse that the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:56AMI’m on various awards judging panels, including The Stage Awards, the UK Theatre Awards, the Offies and the recently discontinued Empty Space
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Looking for theatregoing inspiration? MyTheatreMates co-founder Mark Shenton chooses his top three plays and top three musicals to book now.
SOURCE: mytheatremates.com at 06:30AMWe are about to hurtle out of the EU into an uncertain future, meaning that British cities are no longer eligible to
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Following the successes of the Broadway-to-film transfers of Chicago and Dreamgirls, and then the original film musical La La Land, hope briefly
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Critics always need to get out more – specifically, out of London more. Here at The Stage we pride ourselves on doing
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The other day, the White House tried to demonstrate that Donald Trump was actually working rather than playing golf. It did so
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Last year saw the premiere of Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at Sheffield’s Crucible (now moved to the Apollo), the Old Vic gave
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This week’s announcement of the Oscar nominees makes interesting reading, as ever, not least for the ongoing debt the cinema has to
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Deloitte, the UK live entertainment business generated £17 billion in revenues in 2017. That figure includes attendance at cinemas and sports events,
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Puccini’s meltingly beautiful and bracing score for Madama Butterfly has acquired a new bitterness after the last few months of #MeToo revelations.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMI’m constantly amazed by the strength and variety of what the theatre offers us and how uncomfortable plays also test us, deeply.
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We are truly blessed in Britain to live in a theatrical culture that offers us regular access to the great classics of
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Last weekend, Camilla Long swapped her patch from reviewing films to television for the Sunday Times. “I’ve officially left my wife for
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Lia Williams may not be as well known as some of her big-name co-stars, she may not even have got into drama
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMAnother shifting of the tectonic plates of London’s premier league theatres took place last week with the announcement of the planned 2019
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This punchy revue-like musical about the six wives of Henry VIII originated as a Cambridge University student production, where its authors, musical
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Theatre PRs are at the front line of a theatre’s relationships with the critics, columnists and reporters who cover theatre; and it’s
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I was only writing yesterday about the pervasiveness of snobbery in the theatre by some cultural critics and commentators. As if on
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Popular success often equates with critical disdain, and vice versa: it was long fashionable in critical circles to frown on Andrew Lloyd
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I go to a lot of first nights as part of my job. And inevitably, whatever the show and regardless of how
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Follies, Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s glorious tribute to a vanquished era of variety spectaculars, is set during a final reunion for
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Who doesn’t fantasise about being able to craft a theatre season just for yourself? As a critic, the order and sequence of
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The volatility of theatrical politics and its impact on larger public conversations came to the fore in 2017 as never before. This
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It’s that time of year when we try to begin again with a blank slate and set out our intentions for the
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While this year’s most hotly anticipated musical was a Broadway import, homegrown shows have enjoyed a remarkable renaissance. Mark Shenton celebrates the
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Theatre can be made anywhere and everywhere – as Peter Brook famously put it: “I can take any empty space and call
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It’s the time of year when critics are busy compiling their 2017 end-of-year reports, offering their round-ups of the best (and sometimes
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The maddeningly memorable, nursery rhyme-like refrain of We’re Off to See the Wizard is built on a lie. The Wizard of Oz
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