Tuesday, December 18, 2018
If you see a stage production of The Sound of Music, here are some words you won’t hear: Nazi. Hitler. Here are some words you will hear in the stage version: Gauleiter. Anschluss. Third …
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 03:03PMFriday, December 14, 2018
The note inserted into the programme for the US premiere of Nassim could not be more understated. It begins: “Nassim Soleimanpour was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, December 7, 2018
Just as the holiday displays seem to go up in stores earlier and earlier every year, so is it with arts critics’
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, November 30, 2018
When word came, following the long US holiday weekend, that the Broadway musical Head Over Heels would be closing, it couldn’t have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, November 23, 2018
Speaking on a recent panel called Trans Visibility in the Theatre, actor Alexandra Billings said: “The number is only a handful, but
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, November 16, 2018
The travails of arts criticism have been well chronicled, but the constantly shifting sands and changing players in the US warrant a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, November 13, 2018
As word about a scuffle over a theatre production at Mitchell High School in Mitchell County NC has started to make its way beyond the local North Carolina media, accounts seem to be placing…
SOURCE: www.artsintegrity.org at 07:49PMFriday, November 9, 2018
US fans, and prospective fans, of the musical Bat Out of Hell went on a wild ride last week – and it’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, November 2, 2018
If, as the saying goes, writing about music is like dancing about architecture, what is one to make of an opera co-created
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMFriday, October 26, 2018
Just as Company’s Bobby is now being performed as Bobbie in the West End, the revising of gender roles – and other
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, October 19, 2018
Those who profoundly love theatre often speak of certain treasured performers as “true creatures of the stage”. While referring to people as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:23AMFriday, October 12, 2018
Working in a producing theatre, it is not uncommon to hear a knock on the office door and find someone in full
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, October 5, 2018
Most weekends, the sight of someone navigating crowds of theatregoers with a 6ft hardback Broadway show poster under their arm would be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, September 28, 2018
Instead of bemoaning the uncertainty of the upcoming Broadway season, which I’m given to doing around this time every year, I find
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, September 21, 2018
You’re welcome to claim it as a failing of the American educational system, but I made it through university without ever being
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, September 14, 2018
Almost everyone familiar with the process of getting a new musical to the stage will explain how prolonged and arduous it can
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, August 31, 2018
“Maybe someday your name will be in lights,” Chuck Berry sang in one of his early rock’n’roll hits. Though Berry would never
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, August 17, 2018
Every morning, there are queues. Before the sun has risen high enough to clear the skyscrapers that surround Times Square, while teams
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, August 10, 2018
When Ain’t Misbehavin’ became a Broadway hit in 1978, the music of Fats Waller at its core was roughly 45 years old.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, August 3, 2018
The US will cease to be a majority-white populated country between 2040 and 2045 according to several reports on census population projections.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, July 27, 2018
If I told you that the Berkshires is a region in Western Massachusetts, named for a range of low mountains that start
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, July 20, 2018
A recent article in the Sydney Morning Herald declared that the director of Opera Australia “is staking much of the future and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, July 13, 2018
The ‘theatre etiquette’ article is a staple on the arts pages, periodically erupting in publications and on websites, and typically prompted by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, July 6, 2018
With shows such as Drunk Shakespeare and ShakesBeer offering evenings of alcoholic consumption and classical theatre in almost equal measure, it would
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, June 29, 2018
When the Tooting Arts Club set up its immersive Sweeney Todd at Harrington’s Pie and Mash in 2014, I doubt it was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, June 22, 2018
Swilling champagne and wearing sunglasses, a dog, whose briefcase declares him to be with Mega Stage Productions, announces to his startled pig
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMThursday, June 14, 2018
Unlike going to a museum, where what we see has been curated for us, attending the performing arts is a self-curated experience.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, June 11, 2018
There are many who remain upset with the owners of the Hotel Edison for their ejection of the Edison Cafe several years ago, and you can count me among them, because along with the cafe went…
SOURCE: Howard Sherman at 09:53AMFriday, June 1, 2018
The 2017-2018 Broadway season ended on Sunday. A Broadway League press release duly followed with the year’s statistics, under a headline trumpeting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, May 25, 2018
For generations, US network television has done a successful job of telling the stories of doctors and lawyers, police officers and private
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, May 18, 2018
It is not unusual, I suspect, for theatregoers to imagine themselves living inside the homes that are created on stage. Regardless of
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