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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Diary: Shakespeare app-ocalypse – just swipe left by Tabard

You’d have to have been walking around with your eyes closed and your fingers in your ears to escape the fact that

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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Diary: Making waves over pier by Tabard

Brighton Fringe boss Julian Caddy has got himself into a spot of bother after he penned an article for the local paper

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Diary: Marketing inspiration has hit a brick wall by Tabard

Another week, another mildly perplexing publicity stunt, this time by coach provider National Holidays, which has decided to recreate famous theatre scenes

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Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Diary: Icke’s horror as Wanamaker admits missing Oresteia by Tabard

Skulking around backstage at the Olivier Awards, Tabard saw all sorts of weird and wonderful things. Not anything on the main stage,

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Diary: Love in the lavatories by Tabard

From “To be or not to be”, to “To pee or not to pee”. Theatre critic Kate Maltby caused a stir last year

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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Diary: Shakespeare returns by Tabard

Unless you’ve been wedged under a rock, beneath some cement, wearing noise-cancelling headphones and a blindfold, you’ll probably be aware that this

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Diary: Settle down, Keitel by Tabard

There’s heckling, and there’s heckling. And at the opening night of People, Places and Things at Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End,

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Diary: Dench reveals all to flustered journalists by Tabard

Eight Olivier awards – blimey. Where does Judi Dench keep them all? “Around,” she winked, as she spoke to reporters after her best

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Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Diary: David Hare and the right royal ruckus by Tabard

Next time you have a run in with someone at work, remember that it happens to the best of us at some

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Diary: Mark Rylance is fishing for attention by Tabard

There are some things in this this life that can’t be unseen. Like Denise Gough’s wild performance in People, Places and Things,

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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Diary: Offended by sex? Suck it up by Tabard

Its chorus might not have been threatening to strike, but London’s less embattled opera venue still manages to find itself embroiled in

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Diary: Eliminating disruptive audience members by Tabard

Deary, deary me. Theatreland is going crazy, I tell you. Tabard hears a London theatre has come up with a novel way

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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Diary: Swearing at the audience? Apologise, for Fox sake by Tabard

Readers, do you know what Tabard’s dream holiday consists of? A seaside Mediterranean villa, yes, but it must be one with a

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Diary: Les interviews dangereuses by Tabard

Star of American series The Affair (clue’s in the name) and the Donmar Warehouse’s recent Les Liaisons Dangereuses (likewise) Dominic West seems to have

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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Diary: Teaching fake Hamilton touts a lesson by Tabard

Thinking of selling fake tickets? You’re probably not, but just in case you are, let this next story be a warning to

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Diary: A special moment with an audience of millions by Tabard

If there was ever a type of person that would make use of the well-known leap year tradition that allows women to

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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

Diary: Old phone is smart enough by Tabard

Readers, Tabard may be getting long in the tooth, but his attention span is as short as ever – in large part

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Diary: Katie Mitchell’s violent return floors audiences by Tabard

Well done, Katie Mitchell. She goes away for five years, only to come back and wreak havoc on the theatre industry. How?,

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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Diary: Hell hath no fury… like Miriam Margolyes denied a seat by Tabard

We all know the old actorly superstitions: Don’t say the name of the Scottish play. Don’t whistle inside a theatre. Don’t leave

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Diary: Forget the niceties – carry on calling me Babs by Tabard

Gawd bless Barbara Windsor, stalwart of the entertainment industry and a dame since the beginning of this year. Who wasn’t pleased when

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Diary: Let’s not get physical by Tabard

Tabard remembers well the backlash that critic Philip Hensher faced after he referenced Rosie Cavaliero’s appearance when she was appearing in Prey

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Diary: A right royal pain in the backside by Tabard

Does Arts Council England know something we don’t? In the wake of the latest guidelines it has been circulating to theatres, which

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Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Diary: Broadway tale of the dish and the swoon by Tabard

Theatre audiences: we might not all have to wear corsets and heavy, overburdening clothing anymore but blimey, we do still love a

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Diary: NT Live is Devon sent by Tabard

Good old Rufus Norris. He makes sure things get done. Especially when members of his own family are calling on him to

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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Diary: No pissing about in the audience, please by Tabard

Not a day goes by when theatre etiquette isn’t mentioned in some way – whether it’s an angry audience member tweeting about

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Diary: End of the rodent by Tabard

It is with a heavy heart I write this column, readers, as Tabard must impart some sad news. Before last week’s copy

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Wednesday, January 20, 2016

Diary: Did someone say diversity? by Tabard

While the film world is in uproar over the Oscars – and quite right too, at 40 acting nominations in two years

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Diary: On the street where you live by Tabard

Theatre, TV, film, or his native Shakespeare, Mark Rylance is sensational in absolutely everything. This – like gravity, like the blueness of

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Diary: It’s doubtful that he could waltz into that role by Tabard

Look out, musical theatre. There’s some kind of takeover going on. Just this month, we’ve had Guys and Dolls come to the

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Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Diary: This Westminster’s Tale is bard to the bone by Tabard

A few weeks ago – if you can remember the time before nibbling Christmas cake and drinking barrels upon barrels of mulled

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Diary: Dugher has done one by Tabard

Michael Dugher. He’s posed something of a problem at The Stage offices of late. Or at least his name has. Is it

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