Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Extreme enunciation mars a new French Chekhov – but skilful surgery updates Ibsen's An Enemy of the PeopleI've never known a festival so full of connecting threads. Every show programmed b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:29AMPoor notices and box-office takings mean Ghost: the Musical will vanish from both sides of the AtlanticGhost: the Musical is to be exorcised from Broadway, only six weeks after announcing i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:58AMTuesday, July 24, 2012
Various venues, Avignon, France: Jean Vilar, Avignon Festival's founding father, would have been 100 this year. It hasn't been a vintage year, but the 66th festival was unusually B…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:08AMDavid John Birrell, who was blinded in the right eye after a replica gun misfired during a production of Sondheim's Passion, is seeking damages from theatreAn award-winning actor who was bli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AMDavid John Birrell, who was blinded in the right eye after a replica gun misfired during a production of Sondheim's Passion, is seeking damages from theatre Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:49AMFriday, July 20, 2012
Theatre bloggers weigh in on the advantages – and risks – of bringing back old hitsCrack open the smelling salts. Dust down those defibrillators. This week, theatre bloggers have been co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
New research suggests 'a psychological cost' for performers – but implies actors have higher than usual imaginative facilitiesWho'd be an actor? According to a recent study conducted by r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:22AMTuesday, July 17, 2012
Box office take of Broadway revival plunges 40% during the actor's week-long breakBroadway producers be warned: don't let Ricky Martin go livin' la vida loca.The Puerto Rican pop star is st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMMonday, July 16, 2012
Plans to excavate the final third of the Bankside site could see the theatre fully restored in time for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death in 1616The Rose Theatre, one of the few s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26AMFriday, July 13, 2012
This week the blogosphere asks whether creativity can survive in an institution and gets inspired by rural touring theatrePublic faith in public institutions has nosedived. But has something…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMWednesday, July 11, 2012
Nabil al-Raee, the artistic director of the Jenin refugee camp theatre, has joined imprisoned co-founder Zakaria Zubeidi in refusing food to protest against his incarcerationBoth the artisti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AMTuesday, July 10, 2012
Playwright of critically acclaimed Constellations becomes second winner of annual award supporting new commissions, while Joe Penhall's Birthday extends runPlaywright Nick Payne has won the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:58AMFriday, July 6, 2012
As Americans and Brits examine themselves for signs of drama xenophobia, the future of the musical is put under the spotlightHow well do new plays travel? There's plenty of international the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:15AMThursday, July 5, 2012
This year's Theatre Buildings at Risk Register is shorter than last year's but while some venues have been rescued, others have been demolished. Almost 50 of the UK's theatre buildings have�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:20AMFriday, June 29, 2012
Trevor Nunn will direct the actor and comedian alongside Ashley Jensen and Nigel Harman in a revival of Alan Ayckbourn's play at the Harold Pinter TheatreHarold Pinter's plays were so often …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:15AMThursday, June 28, 2012
Today's funders ask: 'How can you help us to deliver our vision?' Someone ought to tell them: 'Surely it's the other way round'It's been more than half a century since the Lord Chamberlain l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:01AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
The singer has revealed that she is working on a Broadway show based on her life story and using her songs – and that she will be played by three different actorsThree actors could play Ch…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:22AMTuesday, June 26, 2012
A work-in-progress show by the Britain's Got Talent judge will cost visitors to the Edinburgh festival three times as much as finished shows by other major comediansYou won't find Michael Mc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:40AMMonday, June 25, 2012
The advent of £9,000 tuition fees for higher education places has affected the numbers applying, but competition is still fierceApplications to higher education-level drama courses are down…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AMThursday, June 21, 2012
With every demand for a 'new critical standard', another voice promotes reviewing values that haven't changed in 50 yearsIf you bury your head in the sand for long enough, does it start to f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:41AMIs it a re-coronation? The actor may star as the Queen again, in a new Peter Morgan play, possibly directed by Stephen DaldryHelen Mirren could be set to play the Queen for a second time, ac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:41AMWednesday, June 20, 2012
Adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo put on hold by National theatre 'to give the project some more development time'Richard Bean's first new play since One Man, Two Guvnors has been inde…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00AMTuesday, June 19, 2012
The ex-boxer's performance draws from a turbulent life including time in prison and drug addiction, in a play directed by Spike LeeMike Tyson will bring a new meaning to the phrase heavyweig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AMMonday, June 18, 2012
Director Sam Mendes heads a top creative team on a production for London's West End. But who will play Willy Wonka?Producers are to bring a new stage musical version of Roald Dahl's Charlie …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AMFriday, June 15, 2012
Bloggers debated this week whether the restaging of groundbreaking theatre events risked turning them into exhibitsWe're used to new productions of old texts, but what about resuscitations? …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:44PMThursday, June 14, 2012
Sofia Escobar, who is playing Christine in the musical at Her Majesty's theatre in London, took offence at a critical tweet – and responded in kindEach night, Phantom of the Opera star Sof…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:39AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
Actor is reportedly on board to play the struggling salesman Shelley Levene in David Mamet's Pulitzer prize-winning playWith Broadway productions, as with real estate sales, it's all about y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AMSimon McBurney, artistic director of Complicite, is to become the Avignon Festival's first British associate artist next month.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMTuesday, June 12, 2012
First full-length play in six years by Caryl Churchill and new work by Jez Butterworth will feature in artistic director Dominic Cooke's penultimate seasonUnder Dominic Cooke, the Royal Cour…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMFriday, June 8, 2012
With Broadway prices for Death of a Salesman stratospheric, the impact of market forces on theatre is obsessing bloggersPoor old Willy Loman, courting ignominy even in death. This week, the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMFriday, June 1, 2012
Theatre community lambasts Creative Scotland's latest funding review, as it sets out plans to make award-winning companies Vanishing Point and Grid Iron compete for sponsorship A fortnight a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:11PM 
