Thursday, November 9, 2017
In the course of four days recently I saw two productions of Kander and Ebb’s 1966 Broadway musical Cabaret – first the
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The man at the helm of New York’s Public Theater is one of the most admired artistic directors in the US, with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PM“This is a commercial venture, but one with a mission,” write Nicholas Hytner and Nick Starr in the programme for Young Marx,
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One of the great mysteries of a life in theatre is how critics sometimes diverge completely in their opinions on the same
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Putting the Will into the bracing opening number Wilkommen, Will Young returns to the role of Cabaret’s MC. Having previously played it
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In London’s ever-changing theatrical landscape – augmented last week by the official arrival of the new 900-seat Bridge Theatre beside Tower Bridge
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Christmas has arrived even earlier than usual this year than usual with this likeable stage version of the 2009 British festive favourite.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:22AMIn the wake of the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, accusing the Hollywood producer of a long campaign of targeting young actresses and
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I’ve long admitted that I’m an addict and my first drug of choice is theatre. I’ve turned it into my career as
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Outright flop musicals are often more fun than hit shows. Not for their investors, of course, but for those lucky enough to
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A theatre visit to New York shouldn’t begin and end on Broadway. Although it is still the shining beacon of commercial achievement
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Having won a Tony for its original 1988 Broadway production, M Butterfly subsequently spread its wings and flew to the West End.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00PMUnlike in the West End, where weekly box office grosses are a well-guarded secret, Broadway has a transparency where every show reports
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In the immediate wake of the first round of revelations about Harvey Weinstein, I wrote a column in which I quoted Katherine
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Previews began last week for Young Marx, the inaugural production at the new Bridge Theatre beside Tower Bridge, ahead of its official
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The news this week that Stomp is finally to stop banging its drum (and other random objects) after a 15-year West End
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‘In with the new, out with the old’ seems to be the current theatrical mantra. All but one title in the rep
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Last Sunday, Lyn Gardner, my fellow associate editor at The Stage, said: “If you want to see theatre’s future, get on a
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The National Theatre seems to have suffered a series of mishaps recently. Last week’s press night for Saint George and the Dragon
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Humour is, inevitably, a personal thing and we certainly don’t all find the same things funny. As comedy is policed like everything
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It’s a fact of life, like death and taxes, that theatre ticket prices are rising inexorably. And now they’ve breached the $1,000
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Nobody could accuse Dominic Dromgoole of being predictable, whether in his career decisions or talking to journalists, and this interview is no
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMSo, film (and sometime theatre) producer Harvey Weinstein has been dismissed from the company that bears his name. This made public what
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This mid-1970s collaboration between Andrew Lloyd Webber and Alan Ayckbourn was a notable early flop for both, closing after just 38 performances.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PMLast Saturday I was part of a panel on the new TV edition of BBC’s Front Row, talking about (among other things)
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Ten years on from its original premiere at the National Theatre, and after a subsequent seven-year run in the West End, War
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Since making his West End debut in Les Miserables, the actor has cemented his status as a musical theatre star, but he
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMOnce upon a time, the National would rely on commercial producers to transfer its shows to the West End. Michael Codron and
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Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre had the odds against it when it opened, but two years on, Mark Shenton finds founders Joseph Houston
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMAlan Ayckbourn’s earliest theatrical trilogy The Norman Conquests originally premiered at Scarborough in 1973 before becoming a long-running West End success. It
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