Tuesday, June 12, 2018
Bob Carlton’s Return to the Forbidden Planet first landed in the West End in 1989 where it surprised many by beating Miss
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:09PMIt’s not surprising that a play by the man considered by many to be the spiritual successor to Alan Ayckbourn should focus
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In Italy in 1938, fuelled by Mussolini’s obsession with maintaining a pure and healthy race, known and suspected homosexuals were rounded up
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After much planning, Above the Stag has finally opened the doors to its new venue in Vauxhall. As the only full-time LGBT+
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The winner of The Stage Scholarship 2018 at Youth Music Theatre UK is Noah Cochrane, aged 12 from Portadown, Co Armagh in
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Though set in a world of fairytale, there’s a grittiness to Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods. There are enough dysfunctional families, strained
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The story of Eleanor of Aquitaine is a dramatist’s dream. Once the queen of France and then the queen of England she
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:49AMIt’s difficult to imagine now the influence The Goon Show had on a post-war British audience. Austerity had extended the privations of
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The social divide between the working classes and the aristocracy has long been a popular theme in musical theatre. Think My Fair
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The story of Fred Barnes is a theatrical tragedy just gagging to be brought to life on stage. In his heyday in
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In the age of the sexual revolution, British dramatists used farce as a device to satirise the disintegration of old-fashioned social mores
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The beauty of Stephan Elliot and Allan Scott’s musical Priscilla, Queen of the Desert is the way it retains every aspect of
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In the 19th century, there was money to be made digging up fresh cadavers from the graveyard and selling them on to
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While onstage gender reversal has long been a common sight in pantomime, drag has tended to be regarded as a niche style
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Kathleen Turner is an instinctive performer who rarely shrinks from a challenge. She made her film debut in Body Heat, had leading
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMRetirement drama is not a particularly new trend but, naturally, as our nation ages, there’s going to be a greater market for
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There’s a modern Mafioso twist to Simon Dormandy’s busy production of Much Ado About Nothing, with Don Pedro and his men arriving
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If you are going to create a cabaret show to tour cocktail bars around the world, the history of gin is probably
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When the original production of Twang!! closed in January 1966, it was the most expensive flop in the West End to date.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMSeth Rudetsky began his Broadway @ Leicester Square Theatre concert series with Patti Lupone in 2013, then returned last year with Audra
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In a dingy basement, strategically coated in plastic sheeting, character A offers a specialist fetish service. For the right money, a punter
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Towards the end of the Second World War, the communist resistance in Yugoslavia were beginning to liberate pockets of the country. Any
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This solo play written by Siobhan McMillan has undergone several transformations since it opened at the Camden People’s Theatre in 2015. There
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Producer Bill Kenwright has enjoyed a long and successful run with the Agatha Christie Theatre Company, touring adaptations of her most popular
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:23AMSet in Kent parkland yet only 25 minutes from central London, the Sidcup-based school is offering one student the chance to study
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It would be easy to sideline the Sherman brothers as sentimentalist songwriters from a bygone era. It’s true that their best loved
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Director Simon Phillips saw Bernadette Robinson’s singing at a corporate bash in Melbourne. Mesmerised by Robinson’s extraordinary talent as a vocalist, he
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AMInspired by a Norwegian event for those working in film and television, the Costume Symposium is a focal point for a disparate
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When Leo Butler’s Faces In The Crowd premiered at the Royal Court in 2008, it was one of the first plays to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AMSpirit Young Performers Company’s students regularly work in West End shows and all its elite students get their first choice drama schools,
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Revolution and upheaval have played a major part in Phil Willmott’s season of plays at the Union Theatre this year. Detachment from
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