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Thursday, December 15, 2016

Megan Vaughan: Has theatre blogging really changed? Or is it just us? by Megan Vaughan

So, Matt Trueman is worried about the decline of theatre blogs. Fair enough I suppose; we all worry about something. In my

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Monday, June 20, 2016

Ralph Fiennes in Richard III at the Almeida Theatre – review round-up by Megan Vaughan

After giving Macbeth a Stalinist treatment and transporting the Merchant of Venice to Vegas, Rupert Goold’s Richard III is a more timeless

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Monday, June 6, 2016

Jesse Eisenberg’s The Spoils – review round-up by Megan Vaughan

It would be inappropriate to describe Hollywood all-rounder Jesse Eisenberg simply as an actor-turned-playwright. Alongside his critically and commercially successful acting career,

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Friday, April 29, 2016

Kit Harington in Doctor Faustus – review round-up by Megan Vaughan

With his company in residence at Trafalgar Studios, Jamie Lloyd has been enticing young audiences to his shows with a successful formula:

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Thursday, April 28, 2016

Megan Vaughan: Is the drama GCSE students see actually any good? by Megan Vaughan

When both the AQA and OCR exam boards recently announced that pupils studying drama GCSE would no longer be required to attend

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Monday, April 25, 2016

Sheridan Smith in Funny Girl – review round-up by Megan Vaughan

When its first run went on sale in summer last year, Funny Girl tickets were gone in less than 12 hours, becoming

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Friday, April 8, 2016

The Caretaker – review round-up by Megan Vaughan

Harold Pinter had already been credited with changing the face of British theatre before The Caretaker appeared in 1960, but it was

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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Sunset Boulevard – review round-up by Megan Vaughan

After last year’s sell-out production of Sweeney Todd with Emma Thompson and Bryn Terfel, the troubled ENO joins forces once again with

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Megan Vaughan: March is the time of planetary alignment by Megan Vaughan

I have a note on my phone which lists all my favourite shows since January. I do this every year, mainly because

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Tuesday, March 29, 2016

People, Places and Things – review round-up by Megan Vaughan

When People, Places and Things opened in the Dorfman at the National Theatre last year, critics immediately credited the show’s star, Denise

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Monday, March 21, 2016

The Painkiller – reviews round-up by Megan Vaughan

Last seen in The Winter’s Tale/Harlequinade double bill, Kenneth Branagh returns to the stage for what is surely the lightest offering in

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Thursday, March 3, 2016

Megan Vaughan: I have a confession – I’m becoming obsessed with Robert Icke by Megan Vaughan

When Time Out tweeted its review of the Almeida’s Uncle Vanya a couple of weeks ago, the five stars it gave the

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Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Megan Vaughan: The Baader-Meinhof effect for winter theatre by Megan Vaughan

Have you heard of the Baader-Meinhof effect? No, not the group of leftwing German militants founded in the 1970s by Andrea Baader

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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Megan Vaughan: Why does George Osborne keep measuring culture in terms of profit? by Megan Vaughan

Earlier, The Stage published an opinion piece by George Osborne, in which he presented a very particular vision of the current UK

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Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Megan Vaughan: This is my utopian vision for 2016 by Megan Vaughan

2016 begins, in my utopian vision, with the Live Art Aid Christmas single, masterminded by Richard DeDomenici with Home Live Art. The

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

Megan Vaughan: Why does it take Shia LaBeouf eating pizza to get people to engage with the arts? by Megan Vaughan

You’re probably too busy making elf costumes and drinking turbo snowballs* to read about arts outreach right now, so I’ll get straight

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Megan Vaughan: Can theatre be timeless? by Megan Vaughan

The clocks have gone back, the weather is shitty, beer gardens are once again just smoking enclosures for the brave. Halloween is

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Thursday, October 1, 2015

Megan Vaughan: On erectile dysfunction and other disappointments by Megan Vaughan

In a nod to Mark Storer’s new promenade installation piece about erectile dysfunction, The Barometer of My Heart, I was going to

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Thursday, September 3, 2015

Megan Vaughan: How far would you go to watch a show? by Megan Vaughan

It’s 3am on August 2 and I’m in an Uber on London’s North Circular, heading towards the Olympic Park. Dude behind the

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Monday, August 17, 2015

Megan Vaughan: How much is theatre journalism worth? by Megan Vaughan

Hello? Hello…? Can you hear me? Is this thing on? So, The Stage is behind a paywall now. Sorry, “metered access”. How

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Friday, July 31, 2015

Megan Vaughan: Edinburgh is like a black hole for theatre by Megan Vaughan

I’m only on month two with this column but fuck it, I give up. Edinburgh is like a seething black hole, hoovering

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Wednesday, July 1, 2015

Megan Vaughan: I spent June seeing the same show over and over again by Megan Vaughan

Hello. So I have a column now. It’s going to be monthly, and it’s going to be about experimental performance, live art

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Thursday, April 30, 2015

Megan Vaughan: The long tail of theatre criticism by Megan Vaughan

I want to take Mark Shenton out for a pint. Not like that, don’t be silly. I just want to cheer him

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Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Opinion: Megan Vaughan: Using industry contacts to get tickets is a dirty ploy (but I’ll do it if I have to) by Megan Vaughan

I don’t normally give a shit about headline-making theatre. I’m too wilfully contrary for all that celebrity casting, Jamie Lloyd, Donmar Warehouse, returns-queue-only stuff. But the You…

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