Friday, February 19, 2016
“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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Forty-eight years ago, a composing duo called Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice premiered a short musical called Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at
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Since David Bowie's death on January 10, Lazarus, the David Bowie, Enda Walsh and Ivo van Hove musical creation, has become the most talked about
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There is perhaps something now sadly reflective – if not heart-breaking – in the winking marquee above An American in Paris at Broadway’s Palace Theatre in
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Car crash theatre. That’s how a colleague described Al Pacino’s return to the Broadway stage in David Mamet’s new play, China Doll. For
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Happy new year and hello 2016 " From Shakespeare to Lloyd Webber, Chekhov to a crazy puppet, 2016 promises to be a
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My year in theatre fittingly began and ended with two musicals: the first a revival of Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory; the last, Wonder.land at the National t…
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A star is born. This age-old theatrical expression has become a bit hackneyed, though its essence " the idea of someone being
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There is a lot riding on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock, the musical that premiered on Broadway this week, based on the
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Theatres must be run as businesses. That was the driving message in last month's BBC series of 30-minute documentaries about UK theatre.
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In the past week, I experienced the first time I have ever been to the theatre and thought about my safety while
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The West End has changed significantly in the past two decades. Now, only four West End theatres are independent theatres, rather than
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Last week, Asif Kapadia’s compelling documentary Amy " about singer Amy Winehouse " was released on DVD. It’s a disturbing and difficult two hours charting the sin…
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At the curtain call of Hamlet at the Barbican Centre, on the eve of ending its run, Benedict Cumberbatch made his nightly heartfelt speech about
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A few weeks ago, I talked to a group of theatre students about theatre producing. I asked them who their favourite playwrights
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This year marks the 125th anniversary of Hedda Gabler. During his writing career, its playwright, Henrik Ibsen, hung a portrait of August
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In the same week in September, two very different transfers of productions opened in London: at the Adelphi Theatre, the Broadway Tony
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I recently watched Ivo van Hove's Song From Far Away at the Young Vic – a solo work directed with a gentle
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One production that has been making a lot of noise recently is performance artist Bryony Kimmings’ Fake It ‘Til You Make It, created with her partner Tim Graybu…
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On September 17, Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show " widely considered the ultimate cult musical " will celebrate the 40th anniversary
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The question to be asked in the aftermath of this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Edinburgh International Festival post-mortem is: did realigning
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The question to be asked during this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe and International Festival post-mortem is: did realigning the dates work? Up
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More than a third " 34% " of the Edinburgh Fringe 2015 programme is comedy " the largest of any section. This has
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A welcome addition to the Edinburgh Fringe has been the continued growth of cabaret, so much so that it has, for the
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It used to be a traditional Edinburgh ritual to read the fringe programme and count how many productions of Steven Berkoff and
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A couple of months ago at The Globe’s Sam Wanamaker Theatre, something historic happened which went almost entirely unreported. After more 30
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We’ve all done it: had a busy day, got to the theatre in the evening and realised the phone battery has died.
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It’s been some time since a theatre production made the front page of a daily newspaper but one week ago the London Evening Standard ran a
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It takes something special to make a show truly memorable. You can tell at the time " there’s a spine-tingling, gripping and unforgettable
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Broadway can be a brutal place to produce a show. One day you are sitting on top of a few Tony nominations
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 10, 2015
The 69th Tony Awards again demonstrated that, when it comes to producing an award show, America knows how to do it best.
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