Wednesday, October 11, 2017
The mixed economy, in which commercial and not-for-profit sectors exist in a symbiotic relationship, is the defining feature of British theatre. In
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Theatre Royal Drury Lane is one of the jewels in the West End’s crown and the proposed redevelopment of the building is
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Kwame Kwei-Armah’s appointment as artistic director of the Young Vic is a landmark moment for British theatre. First and foremost, he is
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As all theatre artists know, when you launch something new into the world, you can never be completely sure of how it
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The figures revealed in our front page story this week are, to put it mildly, disappointing. It is disappointing that despite years
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Sometimes the small print can be important. When the John Major government introduced the National Lottery in 1994, it kickstarted a complete
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Edinburgh in August is a wonderful, sprawling, unconnected mess. In keeping with that fringe spirit, here are a few uncurated observations on
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The 10% fall in students taking performing and expressive subjects is probably not the end of the world. First, we are talking
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It has been fascinating to look at some of the issues raised by Labour’s Acting Up inquiry through the prism of my
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Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how people start and maintain a career in theatre. Originally, this was because I spent
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You have to feel for Emma Rice. She’s had a pretty rough time as artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe and must have
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It has been a seesaw two years since Emma Rice was announced as the artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe in May 2015.
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Audience behaviour is always a subject of lively debate at The Stage. Rarely a week goes by without someone observing some kind
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In 2012, Elizabeth Freestone (then artistic director of Pentabus) and the Guardian produced a fascinating piece of research that revealed that men
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I avoid making predictions, but earlier this year I gazed into my dusty crystal ball and made a call on what Arts
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For the past year, I’ve been working on a report investigating the UK’s offstage theatre and performing arts workforce. It has been
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It’s tempting to regard the new Federation of Drama Schools as a like-for-like replacement for the now defunct Drama UK. But it’s
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Dominic Cavendish, in his Daily Telegraph review of Annie, remarks: “This is just what London needs right now.” And he is right.
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When Lyn Gardner’s theatre blogs were cut by the Guardian earlier this year, the move was met with uproar from the theatre
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It is notable from this year’s Equity Annual Representative Conference – and indeed from recent issues of The Stage – just how
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Our opera special arrives this week, riding on the coat tails of a small controversy. Exeunt, a website that specialises in experimental
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Theatre’s box office performance against a worsening backdrop of funding cuts is impressive, but it should not be read without a series
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Drama schools are an easy target for complaints about the lack of diversity in the performing arts. If the actors on our
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“Why are you running a circus special?” someone who works in theatre asked me the other day. I didn’t have an immediate
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The opening of the Bridge Theatre this October is a big deal. Of course, the opening of any theatre is a big
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There was a noticeable and very welcome shift in tone at this year’s Olivier Awards. No, I’m not talking about the new
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West End box office has gone up for a 13th year in a row. It’s tempting to just shrug your shoulders and
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Will anyone want to succeed Emma Rice as artistic director at Shakespeare’s Globe? As one wag on Twitter put it: “The last
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Online ticketing has become a modern-day wild west, so it was satisfying to see Viagogo getting both barrels at the House of
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The furore that has greeted the axeing of Lyn Gardner’s Guardian theatre blog has underlined that one of the greatest services journalists
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What’s in a name? The Olivier Awards used to be called the Society of West End Theatre Awards. It’s worth remembering that
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