Wednesday, August 30, 2017
“Journey through our anecdotic revue,” implores a narrator-character called Leading Player in this 1972 Broadway musical hit, scored by Stephen Schwartz. That
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It’s not my place to stray into politics here – I’m only a theatre critic, not a parliamentary correspondent and reviewer like
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We all have our personal favourite musicals, and my list is typically saturated with shows written by Stephen Sondheim. No one has
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Broadway producer turned legendary director Hal Prince was born, he reminds us in this lovingly assembled revue tribute, the year after the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00PMThe country house musical theatre wonder that is Kilworth House Theatre comes up trumps again with a tip-top (and tap-heavy) revival of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMThere’s nothing quite as debilitating as watching a bad play with no easy means of escape. Of course you could just get
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There are, as anyone looking at a poster for an Edinburgh show this year will know, more critics than ever. In the
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There’s a giddy, quirky eccentricity to Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds’s 1954 throwback British musical, in which a magic piano drives people
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMI was supposed to be in Edinburgh last week, but instead, as I’ve already described here, I had to get myself checked
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There are times when I really wish I could have access to a Tardis, and have it take me back to an
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There’s nothing new to artists being defensive about critics. But polymath writer Anthony Horowitz, who has written novels, TV series and plays,
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I have long, and sometimes proudly, self-identified as a theatre addict. I will not be stopped from going to the theatre at
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As Barbara Cook lay unconscious in her Manhattan apartment last week, a succession of Broadway stalwarts came to pay tribute at her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMDespite a career spanning more than 40 years, this grande dame of dance shows no sign of slowing down. As she brings
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This summer has proved to be stranger than usual Broadway. On the one hand, from a roster of 31 shows that were
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I’m heading back to Edinburgh this weekend for a five-night visit. Last year I went up for two nights only, saw just
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“How the fuck did this happen?”, asks Michael Moore at the start of the (mostly) solo polemic he has brought to America’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00PMBroadway dimmed its lights on August 9 to mark the death of Barbara Cook at the age of 89 the previous day.
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The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is once again upon us, and with it some 3,398 productions from which to choose. No single publication,
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In the space of just seven days last week, I managed to be in the following places: I woke up in Provincetown
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Andrew Lloyd Webber is without question Britain’s most successful musical theatre composer of all time – not only does he currently have
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While Andrew Scott is giving us his Hamlet at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End (a production that originated at
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Stephen Sondheim once characterised his 1973 Broadway musical A Little Night Music as being like “whipped cream with knives”. Its rich palette
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30PMThe brutal economics of Broadway’s dependence on star casting has been underlined by two current shows. First, Hello, Dolly!, which is doing
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The Lichfield Garrick follows its 2016 production of Howard Goodall’s The Hired Man by staging another Goodall-scored show, The Dreaming. This is
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Last week, I was still living my theatrical life vicariously from Cape Cod, via the constant stream of news and reviews coming
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Natasha J Barnes lived the showbiz fairytale of going out as an understudy for Funny Girl and returning a West End star. She tells
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAs Killian Donnelly, one of the West End’s finest and hardest-working musical-theatre performers, takes on the role of Valjean in Les Miserables,
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Institutional sexism, like institutional racism, is insidious and hard to prove – unless confronted by hard facts, such as the BBC’s enforced
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I’m having my annual break away from the theatre (for the most part) by holidaying in Provincetown on Cape Cod. But though
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The Doctor is, at last, going to be played by a woman. More than 50 years after the BBC launched the franchise
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