It never rains but it pours, so they say. Well, the lack of rain was about the only thing that went right
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMSeveral London shows have received a critical battering, including A Tale of Two Cities at Regent’s Park, and a couple of stinkers at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAs August approaches, the air comes alive with the sound of playwrights desperately re-drafting ‘urgent’ and ‘timely’ Edinburgh Fringe shows about Brexit
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTabard is sure it will not have escaped your notice, eagle-eyed reader, that last week we enjoyed World Fringe Day, where on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMSome things are best left forgotten. Others, it would be a shame to resign to the history books. And when that thing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFainting, vomiting, arrests: no, it’s not a Friday night out in Brixton, but a Broadway performance of George Orwell’s 1984. According to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFor centuries, theatre has been tackling some of man’s biggest questions and now, in an age of political and social uncertainty, surely
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTabard isn’t much of a traveller. On the rare occasion that getting on a long-haul flight has been necessary, it’s always the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMStage and costume designer Grace Smart recently confessed in an interview with The Stage that she once broke into a theatre at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThis week, Tabard finds theatre guilty of a lack of imagination. The evidence, your honours, stretches back for months. Exhibit A: Secret
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMReader, you may recall Tabard poking fun at the abundance of Trump-based shows at the Edinburgh Fringe this year. Well, those comedians
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIn a baffling political climate, those struggling to separate the facts from the fake news are looking to a new source for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMReader, we are fast approaching one of Tabard’s favourite times of the year – the Edinburgh Fringe – a smorgasbord of artistic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMMamma Mia! Tabard is tremendously excited to hear about a new temporary venue set to pop up in London. Does your mother
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIt’s summer, Tabard has noticed, and with the change in the seasons comes the annually enticing prospect of spending an evening at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMLong-time readers of Tabard, and indeed of The Stage, will know that audience etiquette, or lack thereof, is a topic on which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThe worlds of theatre and politics intersect in many ways. One is full of image-obsessed, self-promoting prima donnas delivering lines fed to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThe Stage wanted a slice of the action when it entered this year’s West End charity bake-off. Competing against teams including Flan-tom
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:19AMWith Donald J Trump the sitting president of the United States, politics has descended far enough into a veritable circus of horrors
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:10AMWe are always told how important it is to make the arts accessible to those living outside the London bubble. Well, Tabard
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:21AMAnother week, dear readers, another slew of Twitterati failing to grasp the concept of fiction. Sure, it’s happened to us all: Tabard
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMNow, we all know there’s no money in the arts. At least, not for most of us. Of course, a lucky few
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIt’s often said that the magic of theatre comes from its sense of community. Hundreds of people squashed cheek to cheek in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMWhile Arts Council England might want to make it as easy as possible for creatives to apply for funding, the organisation has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:22AMTabard likes big mutts and cannot lie, but the producers of a major new tour of Legally Blonde the Musical must be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTabard would like to raise awareness of a heart-rending new charitable appeal that puts personal hardships into perspective. The Royal Opera House
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:20AM“When I feel alone, I reach for you / And you bring me home / When I’m lost at sea I hear
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:09AMReaders with a heart, a soul and a taste for stunning prose will remember Tabard’s foray into playwriting two weeks ago. An
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMWith Easter just around the corner, Tabard knew you would be wondering what the most stagey, chocolate-based Easter treat 2017 has got
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AM“Give us back women’s loos for ALL women” is the cry that echoed from the bowels of the Twittersphere last week. Our
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMMancunian crooner Gary Barlow is the Eeyore of pop – loveable, but dour – who has of late made a number of
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