Friday, 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 12:11PMWednesday, May 30, 2012
Hit musical The Book of Mormon is hottest ticket in Broadway's most profitable year to dateBroadway productions have once again broken annual box-office records, grossing a total of $1.139bn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AMTuesday, May 29, 2012
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced an additional run of its co-production of Troilus and Cressida at the RiversideLondon theatregoers will get only their second chance in a decade t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMMonday, May 28, 2012
Seventy-seater Jermyn Street theatre, London, wins right to put on All That Fall, which Beckett never permitted to be stagedA 70-seat fringe theatre has won the right to stage the West End p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:56AMFriday, May 25, 2012
Young directors are being packed off to Berlin on a crash course in dynamic theatre, and bloggers debate the ethics of an Anne Frank musicalWho wants to hold a mirror up to nature, anyway? T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:35AMFriday, May 18, 2012
Bloggers are smashing old orthodoxies this week, from ideas of what theatre should be to myths about race and actingThis may sound like I'm talking myself out of a job, but if you read one b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:50AMThursday, May 17, 2012
Tony award nominee will reprise her role as Judy Garland in musical biopic when it goes on a tour of AmericaBroadway won't be the end of the line for Tracie Bennett's acclaimed performance i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:15PMActor has been offered lead role in musical adaptation set to open in Leicester this autumn, according to reportsA musical adaptation of Finding Neverland will receive its world premiere at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWednesday, May 16, 2012
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonHenry VI, Part 1; National Theatre Belgrade, Serbia 3/5Henry VI, Part 2; National Theatre of Albania 2/5Henry VI, Part 3; National Theatre Bitola, Macedonia 3/5The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Hanks to make Broadway debut as a tabloid columnist in Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy this autumn, while Zooey Deschanel will play Loretta Lynn – and a musical Charlie Chaplin comes to townTom Ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:22AMFriday, May 11, 2012
A blogger accuses the theatre of pandering to rather than provoking the middle classes, while audience etiquette hits the headlinesHas the Royal Court lost its way? Reviewing Mike Bartlett's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:32AMTuesday, May 8, 2012
Musical that topped Tony nominations wins two major prizes in run-up to US theatre awardsWith the Tony awards only a month away, the musical that topped the nominations has received a furthe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:44AMMonday, May 7, 2012
The comedian and composer of Matilda reveals he always had Heaven on his Mind for Judas role, as he joins Nicole Scherzinger in Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock opera revivalTim Minchin, the comed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AMFriday, May 4, 2012
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThough bombs are falling on South Sudan after a border dispute flared up last month, this Cymbeline was conceived in joy, six months prior to its declaration of in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:11PMThursday, May 3, 2012
Arthur Miller stuck to his guns when asked to change the title of Death of a Salesman. Should modern writers do the same?Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman may be one of the 20th century's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:28PMTuesday, May 1, 2012
James Corden also nominated for Broadway's biggest theatre gongs for his role in One Man, Two Guvnors – as is Tracie Bennett, for her turn as Judy GarlandThe National theatre's Broadway ve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AMMonday, April 30, 2012
Billy Elliot star joins list of theatre professionals speaking out against drama that ignores talents of older generationsJulie Walters has become the latest high-profile performer to critic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:44AMThursday, April 26, 2012
Jeruslalem star will perform speech from The Tempest as part of Danny Boyle's 'isles of wonder' concept for Olympic openerMark Rylance will play a central part of the Olympics opening ceremo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:35AMBloggers battle over the best way to bring theatre to an internet audience – and how to create 'liveness' onlineBrace yourselves. Things are about to take a turn for the meta. Theatre blog…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:58AMThursday, April 19, 2012
Critics sing praises of star James Corden as Richard Bean's Brighton-set farce opens at New York's Music Box theatreAmerican theatre critics have – perhaps fittingly, given the play's high…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMTheatre bloggers are at loggerheads over whether to support productions that play it safe or relish those that take risksStrap yourselves in. Pop on a crash helmet. Theatre bloggers have reo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20AMWednesday, April 18, 2012
Black Books star claims to have become the first professional English-speaking comedian ever to perform in Russia after two St Petersburg gigs last week Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AMTuesday, April 17, 2012
Rylance has used poems by Jenkins as award speeches. Now the two will collaborate on a new play, Nice Fish, to premiere in Minneapolis next yearOn both occasions that Mark Rylance has won a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMFriday, April 13, 2012
They claim to be 'Britain's most sought-after' theatre awards – so why do the Oliviers exclude many major London venues?There are awards and there are awards. Not every award-winning write…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:59AMThursday, April 12, 2012
The spotlight falls on the mysterious figure of the dramaturg, TheatreIdeas defends Mike Daisey, while bloggers battle it out over a free fringe rivalryThis week, blogger Scott Walters attem…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:15AMWednesday, April 11, 2012
Organisers announce that viewers will be able to watch the ceremony on the web, and confirm lineup of celebrity presentersFor the first time in their history, the Olivier awards will be watc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMOrganisers announce that viewers will be able to watch the ceremony on the web, and confirm lineup of celebrity presenters Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMTuesday, April 10, 2012
Disney musical dethrones Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera despite having run for a decade lessThe musical version of Disney's family favourite The Lion King proved that it really …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:04AMThursday, April 5, 2012
Theatre bloggers are discussing the similarities between in-yer-face playwriting and Britart – and debating dramatic gender politicsThe disparity in numbers of men and women working in the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMWednesday, April 4, 2012
Musical about Judy Garland's last days follows West End success by opening to critical acclaim in New YorkBroadway is often the pot of gold at the end of a sell-out West End run, but critica…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:39AMTuesday, April 3, 2012
Founding artistic director calls for theatre to cancel production of The Merchant of Venice by Habima, part of the World Shakespeare FestivalMark Rylance, the founding artistic director of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:02AM 
