Wednesday, April 8, 2020
The nearest we get to live theatre right now is Clap for Our Carers, the countrywide applause for the ceaseless, selfless work
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Hayley Mills, who starred as the title character of Disney’s 1960 hit film Pollyanna, needn’t worry. While I’m not ready to challenge
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Sondheim biographer and columnist David Benedict suggests his top eight Sondheim songs to singalong to during isolation… 1. You Gotta Get a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:24AMLast Sunday was Stephen Sondheim’s 90th birthday. How did he celebrate it? By going to the Broadway opening, specifically timed for his
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This has happened before, including on September 6, 1642. That was when London playhouses were closed by the Puritan parliament. The argument
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A few weeks ago I was at a bus stop staring at my phone at about 9pm. The odd thing about that
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Watching musicals The Prince of Egypt and Pretty Woman over the last week, one incontrovertible fact was underlined: for the entertainment industry,
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I once interviewed the legendary Elaine Stritch at London’s Savoy Hotel where, in some splendour, she had previously lived for 13 years.
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If you’ve ever found yourself walking the corridors of a West End theatre before taking your seat, you’ll probably have spotted posters
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In case you missed it, here’s Rebel Wilson praising the best director nominees at this year’s BAFTAs: “Sam Mendes, Martin Scorsese, Todd
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There’s never a bad time, it seems, to present Shakespeare. Sheffield Theatres, currently riding high with two wins at The Stage Awards
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Cards on the table: I don’t speak Norwegian. Or Russian. This isn’t exactly a problem most days of the week but a
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“I spy a hit.” So said our reviewer Tim Bano last May when he had the (five-star) pleasure of seeing the seriously
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When I look across the upcoming theatre year I’m delighted that I have hope. But in case you’re imagining that over the
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I mean no disrespect to Maggie Smith. She was frankly spellbinding alone on stage throughout Christopher Hampton’s A German Life at the
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While it’s possible to be disturbed, distressed and, sadly, disappointed by theatre, one cannot technically be turbed, tressed or appointed by it.
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There are two types of silence in musical theatre. The first – and worst – I experienced at a performance (there weren’t
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It’s possible you were there but I sincerely hope not. I refer to the performance of a community theatre show by Solent
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The best news of the week was that not only were mercifully few people injured in last Wednesday’s frightening partial ceiling collapse
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When he wasn’t busy composing musicals as impressive as On the Town, Candide, West Side Story and Wonderful Town plus a slew
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What is it we dream about? What brings on a sigh? Piled peaches and cream, about 6ft high… No, I’m not indulging
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I’m not exactly sure of the precise Venn diagram between readers of The Stage and viewers of Doctor Who but I think
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Since directing a pie-shop Sweeney Todd that transferred to the West End and New York, Bill Buckhurst has been in demand, with
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Last week, English National Opera produced shocking news. It arrived on the back of the previous week’s season openings of two operas
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Here’s your starter for 10: Who said: “I hate being interviewed and I have refused altogether to allow it. But I have
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Experimental art is usually synonymous with forbidding high seriousness. The outstanding exception to that is the consistently inventive yet audience-friendly theatre of
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I’ve seen the belated London premiere of a Broadway musical and I have a bone to pick, but first: Harry Secombe. I’ll
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“I think the people in this country have had enough of experts…” So opined Michael Gove to Sky News’ Faisal Islam on
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Unlike musicals, so-called straight dramas don’t do showstoppers. Even a speech as famous as “To be or not to be” won’t elicit
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If Broadway plays are notorious for taking a long time to address contemporary mores, Broadway musicals are slower still. This made the
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Musical theatre is good for your health. Look at Jule Styne, composer of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Gypsy and beyond. He was working
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