Tabard has often thought that being a director must be a bit like being a shepherd – keeping the flock (or actors)
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:22AMWhat happens when an annoying force meets a useless object? Users of Twitter (the former) were lucky enough to find out last
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAh, the world of bad audience behaviour. There were the mobile phones, the e-cigarettes, even the McDonalds’ chicken McNuggets. Now, venues hosting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTabard hears that Irish actor and director Kenneth Branagh has been granted the honour of immortalising himself in concrete at Grauman’s Chinese
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMOne of the never-ending laments of modern life is the lost art of letter writing. Real letters, sent through the post, not
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMLondon versus New York, Lloyd Webber versus Sondheim – the musical theatre rivalry between the UK and the US is well-trodden ground,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:07AMWe all know the ancient Greeks to be the pioneers of theatre as we know it today – not least because of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:02AMWinter has come to the Theatreland. But it’s not quite the epic stage adaptation of George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones we’ve
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMPhoebe Waller-Bridge isn’t known for her shy and retiring nature, even less so in her work, which has been characterised by the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:40AMFor those who can’t afford a ticket to see The Phantom of the Opera, Tabard may have found a cheaper alternative. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMHe’s usually busy tweeting advice to his 60,000 cult followers, writing his weekly column for The Stage, or even occasionally producing some
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMComedian, musical theatre writer, producer – Mel Brooks is surely one of the most ‘been there, done that’ figures in global entertainment.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMHave you ever wondered whether an opera singer can really shatter a wine glass with their piercing voice alone? Tabard certainly has!
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMGiles Coren, eh? He really set the cat among the pigeons last week when he said he doesn’t really go to the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTheatrical dame, movie royalty – Judi Dench is a bona fide national treasure. No one can argue with that. Other than Dench
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTabard enjoyed attending The Stage’s very first Debut Awards last weekend, and listening to industry giants recall fond memories of their favourite
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMA theatre company in the North East has made an unusual request for its latest production, asking patrons to donate their odd
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMA new West End show has gained an unlikely following – of London taxi drivers. The Knowledge, directed by Maureen Lipman, was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIf there’s anything that serious theatregoing folk will say separates them from the uncouth hoi polloi, it’s theatre etiquette. A favoured –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMOh those Russians, as Boney M once said. What have they been up to this time, Tabard hears you ask? They have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAn actor’s pre or post-show ritual can offer you a window into their soul. Whether you want to look or not is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMEvery year in Edinburgh, for one performance only that attracts thousands of people, a young man dressed as a gorilla dressed as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTabard learned this week of an appalling crime that Carmarthen’s Lyric Theatre was victim to back in April. Late one Friday night,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIt’s not often that theatre features so highly on the cultural hot property list, but with Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIt’s deja vu all over again, as Yogi Berra once said. While there is no shortage of extraordinary anecdotes about Bill Murray
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTheatrical doyenne Thelma Holt kept an audience at Shakespeare’s Globe rapt this week, regaling stories of her many years as an actor
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAn overzealous couple recently made the news when they landed themselves in A&E after attempting the iconic lift from Dirty Dancing. Now
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMYou would be forgiven for thinking that the world stops turning in August, such is the pull of the all-consuming Edinburgh Fringe.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMNow, Tabard is used to bringing you the cutting edge of theatrical insight but this time it’s something really special, something so
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThe audiences flocking to the cinema to see Dunkirk may not immediately spot the influence of Shakespeare, but it is there. It
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIt never rains but it pours, so they say. Well, the lack of rain was about the only thing that went right
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