Monday, September 25, 2017
It has long been the case when travelling by aeroplane, that you could be sitting beside someone who has paid half the
Linked From The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, September 22, 2017
As much as I love going to the theatre, there are some theatres I definitely don’t enjoy visiting. And in the middle
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Headlong artistic director Jeremy Herrin has been one of the hardest-working directors in recent years. He tells Mark Shenton about his love
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:01PMIt is so easy to sneer at the theatre: “When I go I just worry about the poor bastards forgetting their lines. Particularly
Linked From The Stage Registration at 10:43AMTuesday, September 19, 2017
“Do human beings ever realise life while they live it – every, every minute?”, asks a character speaking from the land of
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:50PMMonday, September 18, 2017
Earlier this year, Susannah Clapp reflected on her first two decades as theatre critic for The Observer and wrote: “Almost nothing for
Linked From The Stage Registration at 11:16AMBlogger Victoria Sadler recently ignited a hornet’s nest with a survey of where women playwrights stand in the hierarchy of what she
Linked From The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, September 15, 2017
Receiving its world stage premiere in Denver prior to a transfer to Broadway next February, Disney’s 2013 smash hit fairytale Frozen has
Linked From The Stage Registration at 09:55AMThe modern Hollywood age of animated feature musicals has seen them regularly make the trip back to the stage – just last
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Last month, Lyn Gardner asked, in advance of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, for people to look out for each other. She wrote:
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Peter Hall’s accomplishments as a director, across a career spanning more than 60 years, are legendary. We owe both the modern Royal
Linked From The Stage Registration at 02:00AMMonday, September 11, 2017
There’s an idea that critics should be a blank page (but hopefully not an empty mind) – ready and receptive to what
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It is just over two years since Cilla Black – the beloved 1960s pop star turned iconic television presenter and personality –
Linked From The Stage Registration at 04:43AMFriday, September 8, 2017
I recently offered my top six Stephen Sondheim shows, but in the wake of the opening this week of Follies at the
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It’s a perennial problem, especially at older theatres: trying to get to the loo during an interval is so often an ordeal.
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The only man to win the best actor in a musical Olivier three times, Philip Quast still felt it was necessary to fly from
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:01PMLast Friday, the Guardian asked me what I thought of the fact that critics had not been invited to review Tom Hiddleston’s
Linked From The Stage Registration at 02:00AMTuesday, September 5, 2017
At 78, Alan Ayckbourn is having another prolific year. This is his second world premiere to be presented in as many months.
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The post-Edinburgh lull (before the storm of September openings) gave me an opportunity to catch my breath, theatre-wise, and finally see a
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Tom Hiddleston has just begun performances as Hamlet at RADA’s tiny (160-seat) Vanbrugh Theatre – a show that, as Matt Trueman has
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The ‘classics’ are just that: immortal works of art that repay endless re-examination by different artists for different generations. Or, sometimes, by
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:01PM“Journey through our anecdotic revue,” implores a narrator-character called Leading Player in this 1972 Broadway musical hit, scored by Stephen Schwartz. That
Linked From The Stage Registration at 05:48AMTuesday, August 29, 2017
It’s not my place to stray into politics here – I’m only a theatre critic, not a parliamentary correspondent and reviewer like
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We all have our personal favourite musicals, and my list is typically saturated with shows written by Stephen Sondheim. No one has
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Broadway producer turned legendary director Hal Prince was born, he reminds us in this lovingly assembled revue tribute, the year after the
Linked From The Stage Registration at 09:00PMThe country house musical theatre wonder that is Kilworth House Theatre comes up trumps again with a tip-top (and tap-heavy) revival of
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:26AMThere’s nothing quite as debilitating as watching a bad play with no easy means of escape. Of course you could just get
Linked From The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, August 23, 2017
There are, as anyone looking at a poster for an Edinburgh show this year will know, more critics than ever. In the
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There’s a giddy, quirky eccentricity to Julian Slade and Dorothy Reynolds’s 1954 throwback British musical, in which a magic piano drives people
Linked From The Stage Registration at 05:57AMI was supposed to be in Edinburgh last week, but instead, as I’ve already described here, I had to get myself checked
Linked From The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, August 18, 2017
There are times when I really wish I could have access to a Tardis, and have it take me back to an
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