Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Even before the iconic Genevieve came out in 1953, Dinah Sheridan was well known as an archetypal English rose, having appeared in more than 20 British films since the mid-1930s. The irony w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMSunday, November 25, 2012
Nick Smurthwaite talks to Judy Craymer about her new musical Viva Forever!
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMTuesday, November 20, 2012
Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond upon Thames]: Ibsen scholars should hurry along to Richmond's theatre in the round for this little known, rarely produced early curiosity, newly translated…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMThursday, November 15, 2012
Thanks to the internet, pornography isn’t what it used to be. Fifty years ago, raincoated men snuck into cinemas showing X certificate films full of furtive anticipation. Now that porn is …
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Friday, October 19, 2012
Nick Smuthwaite talks to casting director Donna Soto-Morettini about television talent shows and her new book on audition techniques
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMMonday, October 15, 2012
Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond upon Thames: Catch 22 meets the West Wing in this UK premiere of Jules Feiffer's 1970 satire on the lengths US politicians will go to be re-elected.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMFriday, October 12, 2012
Nick Smurthwaite talks to Adrian Lester and Indhu Rubasingham, about Red Velvet, a new production at the Tricycle based on the life of Ira Adridge
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:51AMMonday, October 8, 2012
Finborough Theatre, London : In this companion piece to the same playwright's better known Da, we are invited to spend the evening with a deeply unlikeable character, Desmond Drumm, who…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PMThursday, October 4, 2012
Like the Beatles in their early years, the Beach Boys’ music was crude and simplistic when the band started out in the early 1960s. That all changed with the release of no fewer than three…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMTuesday, September 18, 2012
Rose Theatre, Kingston: Somerset Maugham is scarcely cutting edge, yet this impassioned 1929 drama about a mercy killing seems oddly topical given ongoing preoccupation with how and when we …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMFriday, September 14, 2012
Richmond Theatre: In the Dickens bicentenary year, this is a bold and original reworking of one of his best-loved works, using every trick in the director's book to mostly good effect.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMMonday, September 10, 2012
Orange Tree Theatre, London: Famous for unearthing curiosities, the Orange Tree here turns to Spain's dramatic canon for a meditation on hopelessness written in 1973, the tail-end of Fr…
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Orange Tree, Richmond-upon-Thames: Following on from last year's acclaimed revival of Allan Monkhouse's Mary Broome, written in 1911, comes this equally neglected yet impressive 19…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMMonday, April 30, 2012
Rose Theatre, Kingston: Unusually for Michael Frayn, Here was not well received on its first outing at the Donmar Warehouse in 1993.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMWednesday, March 28, 2012
Theatre Royal Windsor: A medley of 1950s pop songs indicates early on that we are being transported back to a time before political correctness.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:25PMWednesday, February 15, 2012
Ambassadors, London: As we move irreversibly into the age of digital TV it is fun to be reminded of a simpler time when the sounds of drama were more important than the pictures.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:29AMMonday, February 13, 2012
Orange Tree, Richmond: This cosy Richmond venue here offers up a world premiere that is anything but cosy.
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