Friday, April 12, 2019
Are West End ticket prices out of control?
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How last nights are more celebratory and democratic than first nights in the theatre.
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Performing arts exports to Europe – alongside music and visual arts – are worth £360 million to the UK, but that and
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How religious freedoms and freedom of speech are clashing over the casting of the lead in a new regional production of The Color Purple.
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Thursday, March 14, 2019
How reviews for Joshua Harmon's Admissions are strikingly different to its press reception in New York.
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How three shows all opened on Tuesday March 12 -- but I managed to review all three of them.
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Monday, March 11, 2019
Friday, March 8, 2019
The representation of women in stories told on stage , and/or by women, which I've watched WITH women, are a great way to celebrate International Women's Day.
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What happens when a critic not only writes his own version of a Moliere classic -- but then reviews a rival version.
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I step away from my close association with The Stage -- and I celebrate my 10th anniversary on Twitter
Linked From shentonstage.com at 02:06AMA friend recently remarked how amazing it must be to be the last of a profession. We were talking about the rapidly
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Diane Paulus, only the third female director to win a Tony, is bringing smash Broadway musical Waitress to the West End. She
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Telling stories around a fire is probably the oldest form of theatremaking. It’s no accident that American playwright Anne Washburn has set
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The theatre industry and the critics and journalists who cover it are co-dependent. Without the theatre, we wouldn’t have anything to write
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The events of September 11, 2001 shook the world, but had a particular effect on husband and wife Irene Sankoff and David
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This double bill allows audiences with the opportunity to see two great actors starring in intimate solo shows by playwrights with which
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:14AMThese days it is virtually impossible to separate people from their phones. And despite strenuous efforts by theatres that make repeated announcements
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As Follies returns to the National Theatre, the Olivier-winning Joanna Riding is taking on the role Imelda Staunton played in the hit
Linked From The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThere’s a lot of muddle in the debates around identity politics in theatre, whether of gender, sexuality, race or disability. This can
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Long before In the Heights and Hamilton brought him to international prominence, Lin-Manuel Miranda was a member of the improvisational comedy hip-hop
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The longest-running play in West End history is written by a woman. The Mousetrap’s late writer Agatha Christie also has a second
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Jukebox musicals have become one of the most familiar and popular forms of musical theatre. Producers love them, because they have a
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As another artistic director falls prey to the Twitter mob, I review my own relationship with the medium.
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We are in the middle, once again, of the theatre awards season: last Friday this publication held its own annual The Stage
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Theatre all too often generates headlines only when it acts controversially, or badly. The daily business of theatrical excellence tends to be
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Layton Williams had two West End roles under his belt by the age of 14 in Thriller Live and Billy Elliot. Now
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Making her solo West End debut with the stage version of 9 to 5 the Musical, the award-winning choreographer’s star continues to
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Sometimes shows collapse. This can happen before performances even begin (as with the planned arena tour production of Heaven on Earth in
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