Wednesday, July 19, 2017
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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After the announcement that David Lan is to step down from the artistic directorship of the Young Vic, I suggested six possible
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It’s summer and therefore time for holidays. Here’s how I like best to spend my summer. 1. Provincetown, Massachusetts Provincetown on Cape
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No matter that big screen success failed to follow an Oscar win, the Homeland star has worked steadily on the stage and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMLast Saturday the annual London LGBT Pride Festival Parade took place. It used to be called a march, but nowadays it is
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Playwrights are entitled to a large degree of control over their work. They’ve created it, after all. But how far does that
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As she returns to the West End in RSC’s Queen Anne, the actor tells Mark Shenton about her big break on television
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:04PMThe title is deliberately cheeky – and so are a lot of the jokes – in He Shoots! He Scores!, a modest
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AM“My name’s Mark and I’m a theatre addict.” I’ve previously confessed that I’m an addict in many areas of my life; if
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As The Stage celebrates musicals this week, it’s worth remembering that there are significant challenges facing the genre that dominates the West
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The actor turned director has reworked the biggest musicals in the world, from Miss Saigon to Jesus Christ Superstar. He tells Mark
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMHe’s in his early 30s, but Jamie Hendry has been producing in the West End for 10 years and now his personal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:18AMChanges don’t happen overnight, but some things are slower to change than others. It wasn’t until 2008 that the first new play
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In the past couple of weeks, two major new musicals have opened in London: Bat Out of Hell, the stage incarnation of
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There has long been a tradition of trying to tell massive stories with crazily diminished resources. It was once a staple of
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There is a duty for London-based critics to get out of London as much as we can. Great theatre is happening all
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We’ve finally seen the West End debut of Audra McDonald, some 23 years after she won her first Tony Award. McDonald reprised
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After an abortive side-trip to Sydney last year, Jonathan Church has returned to Britain and swapped the annual summer season he programmed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:28AMHe who pays the piper calls the tune. So goes the saying. And that maxim was going to be put to the
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Producers Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire, founders and former joint chief executives of Ambassador Theatre Group, recently announced plans for Trafalgar Studios,
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London’s Union Theatre continues its mission to revive neglected British musicals that emerged during the 1980s and 1990s mega-show bonanza years. Having
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMThe appointment of Kenny Wax this week to the top position of president of the Society of London Theatre caps a rise
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For more than 60 years now and continuing, Alan Ayckbourn has been among our most pre-eminent and prolific playwrights. With at least
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With a whole host of LGBT+ events planned to celebrate Pride in London, Mark Shenton talks to some of the programmers, directors
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMIt’s good to know that the theatre can still provoke headlines and controversies, not least when it’s a 400-year-old play. As I
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Alan Ayckbourn looms large in Scarborough. The former artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre is still its resident playwright whose latest
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:53AMFor the first time in ages, I’m no longer turning to the arts pages first. Although I usually make sense of life
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It’s always a treat to see stars who are used to appearing in large arenas or theatres bring their shows down to
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I just got back from one of my regular New York stints to round off the season that culminated with the presentation
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Broadway is mirroring West End trends with record sales, defying the past decade’s economic pressures and rising ticket prices. Mark Shenton meets
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM“I’m tired to the death”, says Willy Loman in Arthur Miller’s searing family drama. It has an even more chilling resonance for
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