Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Designed by WGR Sprague in 1913, the 425-seat Ambassadors Theatre is probably best known today as having been the West End’s long-term
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Rightly, there has been a concerted push to address the under-representation of black, Asian and minority ethnic performers on stage and screen,
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For some, it has already started. For others, it will soon be upon them. A few sorry souls will be preparing to
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As Mark Shenton rightly observes in his column this week, Ian McKellen’s 80-stop tour of the UK is a “major statement of
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Whenever I talk to theatre executives, there is one topic that they tend to bring up more than any other: boards. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMWhile his lack of experience in the industry meant his appointment in 2016 was a surprise to many, Ambassador Theatre Group’s chief
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What do brown ballet shoes and emergency childcare have in common? Our two front page stories this week are both indicative of
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On one level, maybe it doesn’t matter if a few schoolchildren haven’t heard of Shakespeare. It should be perfectly possible to have
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Laura Cox QC’s report into bullying and sexual harassment in the House of Commons made for grim but fascinating reading, not least
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It is hard to overestimate the impact the National Theatre’s Travelex scheme has had on UK theatre. Nicholas Hytner ranked it as
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As more emerges regarding Ramin Gray’s departure from Actors Touring Company, the less clear things become. In July, I wrote about the
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The Stage Debut Awards, in association with Access Entertainment, are a joyous evening celebrating the future of theatre in this country. And,
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The pay claim submitted by Equity to the Society of London Theatre is, as the union itself acknowledges, an ambitious one. A
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For a sector that generally self-identifies as liberal and progressive, the current global state of affairs can make for depressing reading for
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A story in the US press last week highlighted the general public’s increasingly warped view of the acting profession. Geoffrey Owens –
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Last week’s front-page story about the National and other leading theatres signing up to the #YesOrNo campaign generated quite a response. A
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For all its professed liberal sensibilities, theatre can still be a deeply conservative world. Set ways of doing things, strict hierarchies and
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No one forgets their big break. What has proved to be so exciting about The Stage Debut Awards is the chance it
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Can a theatre be cursed? Well, no, but it can certainly develop a bad whiff about it. Soon after I started at
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I find myself continually impressed by theatremakers’ seemingly boundless optimism. Theatre is a career that most people would not have pursued were
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Most theatre histories focus on individuals – larger-than-life characters who shaped the art form over the centuries: Richard D’Oyly Carte, Binkie Beaumont,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01PMHaving left Ambassador Theatre Group, the mega-business they founded, the irrepressible impresarios are rebuilding their empire. They tell Alistair Smith about their
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When I joined The Stage nearly 15 years ago, I wanted to be a theatre critic. It took me one week and
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This evening, we’ll know if the England football team has reached its first Fifa World Cup final in 52 years. But, whether
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A fortnight ago, the results were announced of Actors Touring Company’s disciplinary process into accusations of misconduct against its artistic director Ramin
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How has theatre criticism changed in the past eight years? In 2010, The Stage ran a survey asking our readers what you
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If you thought West End tickets were getting expensive, spare a thought for all the private equity firms, multimillionaires and billionaires out
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I recently took part in a round-table discussion about London’s theatres. One of the key issues discussed was how the planning system
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For a few years, regional theatre leaders have warned that things are getting tougher outside of London. In the subsidised sector, local
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The Edinburgh Fringe started by accident. In 1947, eight companies took advantage of the existence of the official Edinburgh International Festival to
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We’ve had a couple of enlightening anecdotes this month from artists revealing how they stumbled into a career in theatre by accident.
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