Friday, September 23, 2016
I regularly go to the theatre on my own and must admit I rather enjoy it. My favourite secret theatregoing activity is
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I am constantly puzzled by the entertainment industry's fascination with remakes. The BBC has recently reheated Porridge and doled out an underwhelming
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It's not a new question: "How can I fund my work?" But it's one that producers have pondered, struggled with and inevitably
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The Open Air Theatre in London’s Regents Park has just completed a successful revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s seminal
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It may seem hard to imagine, but I remember when shows at the Edinburgh Fringe had intervals. Venues such as the Assembly
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One of the best kept secrets at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe has been happening nightly at the Roundabout in Summerhall where the
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Twenty-five years ago, a relatively new venue on the Edinburgh Festival Fringe joined forces with an organisation called Waverley Care, a Scottish-based charity
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It’s the driving question that gets asked every year " can you still make it at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe? Each year
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Film actress Rebel Wilson is on stage in the West End at the moment, the latest in a list of popular commercial
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The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Hamlet, starring Paapa Essiedu, is both confronting and relevant, speaking to a younger generation of theatregoers, many of
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Where does the line of unacceptable behaviour in the arts industry get drawn? It seems to get blurred in a way that
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What is a target audience? Last week I wrote a column about my recent experience watching a West End performance of Doctor Faustus and
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Have West End theatre audiences sunk to a new low? Attending the final Friday evening performance of Doctor Faustus starring Kit Harington at the
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In the same week Broadway was heralded for its new, cutting-edge, Tony award-winning musical Hamilton, the best the UK could muster was
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Last week, Canada’s annual 10-day Magnetic North Festival celebrating the best of Canadian arts concluded for 2016. Each year, Magnetic North takes place
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Broadway musical American Psycho was meant to have been this summer's hottest ticket and the most anticipated opening of the 2015/16 Broadway season but it has instead
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The 49th Brighton Fringe ended last week. It’s England’s largest fringe festival, runs over four weeks and is the third largest open-access
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Broadway can be a brutal place to be around during Tony season. With the awards presented on June 12 at the Beacon Theater, spare
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Understudies have been featuring heavily in the news over the past few weeks. It has been announced that Natasha J Barnes, understudy to
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With Hamilton dominating the 2016 Tony Award nominations, expect to see producers hurriedly looking for the next hip hop musical. You can almost hear the
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It used to be called the Great White Way, but as the 2016 Tony nominations " announced on Tuesday " reflect, that term cannot
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Last year I attended a performance of a play at London’s intimate Bush Theatre. In the last few minutes of it, a
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In May 1998 possibly one of the boldest pieces of programming ever happened in the West End at the Duke of York’s
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Over the past couple of months I have revisited two great long-running musicals: Les Miserables on Broadway, and The Phantom of the Opera on tour in Toronto. Both
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Has the film-star bubble burst on Broadway? Or have audiences just realised that paying $161 dollars for 55 minutes of entertainment is
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The Olivier Awards are arguably British theatre's most important night of the year and its single biggest advert. My hope is that
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The Adelaide Fringe, the second largest fringe festival in the world, ended on March 14. Although far short of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the
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“I’m sorry if this seems strange, but I’m trying to have a conversation with someone I wouldn’t normally get to speak with.”
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The lights go up on the new Broadway production of Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock’s iconic musical Fiddler on the Roof with
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“Ignored and unthanked and uncredited washing other people’s gussets; it’s like a career in all the very worst bits of being married.
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