Monday, August 20, 2018
News, reviews, controversies and interviews of the week from London to Broadway, by way of Edinburgh, including the ‘banning’ of Mazz Murray from singing a song from Dreamgirls, Edinburg…
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In this stage musical adaptation of the 1990 film Pretty Woman, Sweet Charity meets My Fair Lady, but with a happier ending.
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Mark Shenton rounds up news of singalong performances of Bat Out of Hell, reviews of Aristocrats, Bring It On and Little Shop of Horrors and an extract from an interview with Kathleen Turner.
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Classic rock tracks are played as you enter the theatre. But the show that follows could only dream of containing a single
Linked From The Stage Registration at 10:00PMMonday, August 6, 2018
From news headlines and Twitter gems to must-read columns and the biggest openings in London, New York and Edinburgh, Mark Shenton - currently resident in Provincetown, Massachusetts for the…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMEarlier this week, Fiona Mountford, theatre critic for the Evening Standard, raised the question: “I am so tired of seeing some male
Linked From The Stage Registration at 02:00AMSunday, August 5, 2018
The first thing that knocks you out is the theatre itself. The stage is covered in glistening and glowing reds and features
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Saturday, July 28, 2018
I’m reminded more than ever of a time, not so very long ago, where instead of using Twitter to attack each other, we used to use it to engage with each other and find common ground, even f…
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After the short-lived West End disaster of Viva Forever! in 2012, based on the back catalogue of the Spice Girls, building another
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:24AMI came to a belated realisation: my life was not a dress rehearsal — and it really didn’t matter if I missed a few (dozen) shows. So when it came to booking this year’s P-town trip, wh…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMProvincetown, a historic town at the farthest tip of Cape Cod where the pilgrim voyagers aboard the Mayflower first made landfall in
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You can only be first once – so it’s amazing that there are still glass ceilings for minority theatremakers to break. From
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With a with a title like This Ain’t No Disco it’s tempting to reply that this ain’t no musical, either. Instead, it’s
Linked From The Stage Registration at 10:00PMAfter Mart Crowley found success with his groundbreaking 1968 play The Boys in the Band, about the lives of gay men in
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It’s a bittersweet fact that Lyn Gardner topped the lists of both the most regularly read and most valued critics from respondents
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When The King and I opened at the London Palladium earlier this month, more than one critic trotted out the current favourite
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Yet again, an understudy has saved the day. Only last month I was writing about how these unsung heroes embody the essential
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Theatre has begun to confront its long-time problems around sexual harassment and inappropriate behaviour in the workplace. This has led to the
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The Stage was one of several publications this week that believed it had seen Ruthie Ann Miles reprise her Tony-award winning performance
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After making her name as a director adapting much-loved, classic stories, Sally Cookson is now bringing a contemporary novel to the stage.
Linked From The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThe current culture wars of civility, or the lack of it, stretches to the White House. Donald Trump’s election victory, and the
Linked From The Stage Registration at 02:00AMFriday, June 29, 2018
I’ve just experienced my first ever ocean cruise… okay, it was only the North Sea, not trans-Atlantic, but I’m a convert to
Linked From The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, June 27, 2018
In America, naming rights for theatres and concert halls aren’t just an honour, but something to be bought, sold and traded. In
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Jeanine Tesori has been described as ‘the most prolific and honoured female theatrical composer in history’. Now two of her hits, Fun
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The West End, similar to Broadway, thrives on a bit of star power. As Matt Wolf recently noted in the New York
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From Cromer pier to the Garrick, and Jimmy Tarbuck to Kenneth Branagh, producer Edward Snape has worked his way up to the
Linked From The Stage Registration at 04:00AMChorus dancer Peggy Sawyer is told: “You’re going out there a youngster, but you’ve got to come back a star,” when she
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Two years ago, Taylor Mac combined eight three-hour shows into a one-off event that saw the performer on stage for a full
Linked From The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, June 15, 2018
Football clubs have transfer windows – specific periods throughout the year when they can sign and sell players in and out of
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Whether in a supporting part or as a leading man, the Olivier and Tony award-winning actor always leaves his mark. As he
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