Wednesday, March 8, 2017
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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London mayor Sadiq Khan has sounded a welcome note on the false economy of cutting arts subjects in education. The creative industries
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMI find myself conflicted when it comes to the issue of banning food in theatres. It is irritating when someone rustles a
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Not too long ago, it was fairly standard practice for councils to fund – and often run – their local receiving theatres.
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Three apparently unrelated stories in this week’s paper should give pause for thought. The first is news that Labour is launching an
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One of the biggest problems with local arts cuts is that they are infectious. The news of cuts in Bath and Bristol
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I spent Friday afternoon in the Grand Saloon of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane with about 450 like-minded souls, celebrating the best and brightest of
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There is a quote from the late, great Laurence Olivier that we often use to help promote The Stage. It goes: “The
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It comes as little surprise that Arts Council England is asking theatres to prepare for cuts, or standstill funding at best, in the
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Once upon a time in a kingdom called Pantoland, there was a pantomime giant named Qdos Entertainment. Qdos was the undisputed King
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This time last year, our front page read “Local cuts are ‘main threat to theatre in 2016’.” And so it has proved.
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Writer and restaurant critic AA Gill’s death reminded me of a scathing piece he wrote about the state of British theatre criticism
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Outside theatre, one of the sectors I find most interesting is the restaurant trade. As it’s another branch of the entertainment industry,
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Andrew Lloyd Webber and Cameron Mackintosh are the twin titans of our industry. The pair dominated commercial theatre in the final third of
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Here’s the awkward truth about ticket touting: it only happens because producers are underpricing their tickets. If producers were offering tickets at
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At the end of 2015, we asked leading theatre figures about their hopes and fears for 2016. Nobody foresaw our country’s vote
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You might not be aware, but next week is Captioning Awareness Week. This event is in its second year and is run
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Ed Vaizey’s speech at the Royal Society of Arts pulled few punches. It is very insightful, well worth watching in full via
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Where next for Shakespeare’s Globe? The Bankside venue has been one of British theatre’s great success stories, but today faces a seriously
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English theatre is in a pretty healthy state. That’s the overriding theme to come out of the Arts Council’s report into the
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Look at copies of The Stage from the 1940s and 1950s and you don’t have to search hard for evidence of a widespread
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Sitting in the National Theatre foyer one Monday afternoon almost precisely three years ago, you might have been aware of a strange
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This week’s welcome news that a group of the UK’s leading theatres will work with Parents in the Performing Arts to investigate
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West End ticket prices are a thorny subject. Part of the reason for this is that there’s not a lot of clear data
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Earlier this year I was singing the praises of Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart for taking their production of No Man’s Land
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Theatre is not the most transparent of industries, and commercial theatre investment is one of its murkier areas. A certain mystique has
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“Opera is theatre,” says Graham Vick (p12). But is it? When is opera theatre? When is musical theatre opera? When is musical
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With a few exceptions, West End theatres have a standardised curtain time of 7.30pm. Some long shows open earlier, some short shows
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Watching Team GB’s impressive medal haul at the Olympics, I’ve been thinking a lot about arts funding. Bear with me. At Atlanta
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Producer, West End theatre owner, comedy awards producer and ex-performer Nica Burns speaks from experience when she says that “proper, erudite” reviews
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London mayor Sadiq Khan launched a campaign this week in a bid to shore up tourism and investment into the capital. The
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