“Ignored and unthanked and uncredited washing other people’s gussets; it’s like a career in all the very worst bits of being married.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMForty-eight years ago, a composing duo called Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice premiered a short musical called Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSince David Bowie’s death on January 10, Lazarus, the David Bowie, Enda Walsh and Ivo van Hove musical creation, has become the most talked about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThere is perhaps something now sadly reflective – if not heart-breaking – in the winking marquee above An American in Paris at Broadway’s Palace Theatre in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMCar crash theatre. That’s how a colleague described Al Pacino’s return to the Broadway stage in David Mamet’s new play, China Doll. For
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMHappy new year and hello 2016 – From Shakespeare to Lloyd Webber, Chekhov to a crazy puppet, 2016 promises to be a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMy year in theatre fittingly began and ended with two musicals: the first a revival of Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory; the last, Wonder.land at the National that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMA star is born. This age-old theatrical expression has become a bit hackneyed, though its essence – the idea of someone being
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThere is a lot riding on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock, the musical that premiered on Broadway this week, based on the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMTheatres must be run as businesses. That was the driving message in last month’s BBC series of 30-minute documentaries about UK theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMIn the past week, I experienced the first time I have ever been to the theatre and thought about my safety while
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:40AMThe West End has changed significantly in the past two decades. Now, only four West End theatres are independent theatres, rather than
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMLast week, Asif Kapadia’s compelling documentary Amy – about singer Amy Winehouse – was released on DVD. It’s a disturbing and difficult two hours charting the singer’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMAt the curtain call of Hamlet at the Barbican Centre, on the eve of ending its run, Benedict Cumberbatch made his nightly heartfelt speech about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMA few weeks ago, I talked to a group of theatre students about theatre producing. I asked them who their favourite playwrights
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThis year marks the 125th anniversary of Hedda Gabler. During his writing career, its playwright, Henrik Ibsen, hung a portrait of August
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMIn the same week in September, two very different transfers of productions opened in London: at the Adelphi Theatre, the Broadway Tony
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMI recently watched Ivo van Hove’s Song From Far Away at the Young Vic – a solo work directed with a gentle
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMOne production that has been making a lot of noise recently is performance artist Bryony Kimmings’ Fake It ‘Til You Make It, created with her partner Tim Grayburn, explori…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMOn September 17, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show – widely considered the ultimate cult musical – will celebrate the 40th anniversary
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMThe question to be asked in the aftermath of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival post-mortem is: did realigning
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMThe question to be asked during this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe and International Festival post-mortem is: did realigning the dates work? Up
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMMore than a third – 34% – of the Edinburgh Fringe 2015 programme is comedy – the largest of any section. This has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMA welcome addition to the Edinburgh Fringe has been the continued growth of cabaret, so much so that it has, for the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMIt used to be a traditional Edinburgh ritual to read the fringe programme and count how many productions of Steven Berkoff and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMA couple of months ago at The Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Theatre, something historic happened which went almost entirely unreported. After more 30
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWe’ve all done it: had a busy day, got to the theatre in the evening and realised the phone battery has died.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMIt’s been some time since a theatre production made the front page of a daily newspaper but one week ago the London Evening Standard ran a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMIt takes something special to make a show truly memorable. You can tell at the time – there’s a spine-tingling, gripping and unforgettable
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMBroadway can be a brutal place to produce a show. One day you are sitting on top of a few Tony nominations
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThe 69th Tony Awards again demonstrated that, when it comes to producing an award show, America knows how to do it best.
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