Wednesday, October 4, 2017
Alan Ayckbourn’s earliest theatrical trilogy The Norman Conquests originally premiered at Scarborough in 1973 before becoming a long-running West End success. It
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMTheatre is necessarily a minority activity: even in London’s five largest theatres – the London Coliseum, London Palladium, Royal Opera House, Theatre
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The tradition of the out-of-town try-out has been a tried and tested route for Broadway shows – developing them away from the
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After the Tom Hiddleston Hamlet played at RADA’s 160-seater Vanburgh Theatre for just three weeks, this year’s second most exclusive Shakespearean production
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This week a new musical called The Band based around the 90s pop repertoire of Take That opened in Manchester, ahead
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To paraphrase the most famous line in Sunset Boulevard, it’s not that the show that has got smaller, it’s the performance that has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07PMWebsites fall over themselves to be first with the news, though of course nowadays a piece of breaking news can get amplified
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Broadway is soon to send us Hamilton, which – after delays to the official opening – is now going to be not
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Four of the five original members of 1990s boy band Take That are billed as co-producers of The Band, a new jukebox
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It has long been the case when travelling by aeroplane, that you could be sitting beside someone who has paid half the
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As much as I love going to the theatre, there are some theatres I definitely don’t enjoy visiting. And in the middle
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Headlong artistic director Jeremy Herrin has been one of the hardest-working directors in recent years. He tells Mark Shenton about his love
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMIt is so easy to sneer at the theatre: “When I go I just worry about the poor bastards forgetting their lines. Particularly
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“Do human beings ever realise life while they live it – every, every minute?”, asks a character speaking from the land of
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Earlier this year, Susannah Clapp reflected on her first two decades as theatre critic for The Observer and wrote: “Almost nothing for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMBlogger Victoria Sadler recently ignited a hornet’s nest with a survey of where women playwrights stand in the hierarchy of what she
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Receiving its world stage premiere in Denver prior to a transfer to Broadway next February, Disney’s 2013 smash hit fairytale Frozen has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:55AMThe modern Hollywood age of animated feature musicals has seen them regularly make the trip back to the stage – just last
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Last month, Lyn Gardner asked, in advance of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, for people to look out for each other. She wrote:
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Peter Hall’s accomplishments as a director, across a career spanning more than 60 years, are legendary. We owe both the modern Royal
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There’s an idea that critics should be a blank page (but hopefully not an empty mind) – ready and receptive to what
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It is just over two years since Cilla Black – the beloved 1960s pop star turned iconic television presenter and personality –
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I recently offered my top six Stephen Sondheim shows, but in the wake of the opening this week of Follies at the
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It’s a perennial problem, especially at older theatres: trying to get to the loo during an interval is so often an ordeal.
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The only man to win the best actor in a musical Olivier three times, Philip Quast still felt it was necessary to fly from
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At 78, Alan Ayckbourn is having another prolific year. This is his second world premiere to be presented in as many months.
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The post-Edinburgh lull (before the storm of September openings) gave me an opportunity to catch my breath, theatre-wise, and finally see a
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Tom Hiddleston has just begun performances as Hamlet at RADA’s tiny (160-seat) Vanbrugh Theatre – a show that, as Matt Trueman has
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The ‘classics’ are just that: immortal works of art that repay endless re-examination by different artists for different generations. Or, sometimes, by
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