Tuesday, September 11, 2018
National Theatre head honcho Rufus Norris has endured an occasionally ‘difficult’ relationship with elements of the nation’s press. But it was nothing
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I recently interviewed Sean Holmes about his departure from the Lyric Hammersmith. He mused that as his reign wore on, mainstream theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, August 27, 2018
The most powerful piece of theatre at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe was Hannah Gadsby’s devastating, deconstructed confessional Nanette. Despite the lavish praise
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, August 26, 2018
Britain’s tortured withdrawal from the European Union is a common theme at the Edinburgh Fringe. Many comedians are trying to go beyond mockery.
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Even as many performers focus on psychological well-being in their work, the grueling annual event can take a toll.
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I’m sure everyone has noticed this by now, but football’s coming home. And in certain respects the theatre world is not terribly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, June 22, 2018
A London journalist takes pity on his New York colleagues and the “unadventurous” work they ended up championing.
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There is a long and occasionally noble tradition of producers not inviting critics to shows. That is their right. Sometimes, there’s a
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The New York Times has caused something of a stir with a piece ranking the best 25 American plays written since Tony
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Much like Jennifer Lawrence and and Marilyn Monroe, Tanya Burr does not have any formal acting qualifications. Unlike those two, the YouTube
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, May 30, 2018
How much does it cost to see, say, Les Miserables? The most recent press release I have – from earlier this month
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“Fatherland,” now playing in London, is an ambitious, genre-defying work that brings together interviews about what it means to be a parent, enlivened with music and dance.
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Back in the day, a ‘pause’ in theatre was mostly known as Harold Pinter’s favourite stage direction. And the odds are that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
Somewhere, in a dank crevasse of the internet, there will be somebody venting their spleen over the recent news that Hayley Atwell
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, April 23, 2018
Are all great iconoclasts doomed to become icons? The titanic British theatremaker Joan Littlewood more or less gave up on the stage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThursday, April 19, 2018
Revivals of Oscar Wilde’s deathless comedy warhorse The Importance of Being Earnest are not exactly uncommon: there were different West End productions
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Considering the volume of critically acclaimed theatre productions that don’t end up on TV – i.e. most of them – I’m not
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What’s good for the West End is good for the Olivier Awards. And it is almost impossible to conceive that any serious
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And so it happened, the day I had been dreading since becoming a critic: somebody finally sleep shamed me at the theatre.
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Not wishing to sound like a shill for the patriarchy, but is something heartening finally happening about gender parity of writers on
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“The Believers Are But Brothers” invites a theater audience to join a messaging group to explore themes of religious radicalism and masculinity.
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I was a fan of Josie Rourke and her regime at the Donmar Warehouse. She and executive director Kate Pakenham took a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMWednesday, January 10, 2018
Search for ‘Hamilton’ and ‘game-changer’ and you will not go short of results: it’s the epithet of choice for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s all-conquering
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, December 20, 2017
Alan Ayckbourn’s The Divide was not a divisive show. It was panned by pretty much every critic who saw it after opening
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In recent years, the Evening Standard Awards has been accused of rewarding the most famous, if not always the most deserving, performers
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A new play at the Young Vic portrays life in a bleak migrant camp and how theater and music united some members of that homeless, fractured community.
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George Osborne couldn’t fix the economy – but might the chancellor-turned-newspaperman have successfully repaired the Evening Standard Theatre Awards? To recap: after
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What’s the most successful original British stage drama of the 21st century? I should stress the ‘original’, which means I’m not having
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It may seem a weird cosmic joke (or perhaps an intervention by the Greek gods – more of whom later), but two
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTuesday, October 31, 2017
Remember those five minutes or so when Nicholas Hytner ducked out of British theatre? Yeah, me neither. Because now that he’s back
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMTuesday, October 24, 2017
As Mark Shenton recently observed, there is a lot of new writing in London at the moment. The National Theatre only has
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