Wednesday, April 22, 2015
This Sunday the streets of London will be filled with the sound of feet pounding the pavement as runners in their thousands
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Tabard does enjoy a good awards ceremony, and none more so than the Oliviers. All the great and good of Theatreland were
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMActors have many different ways of getting into character. For instance, Tabard finds wrapping a towel tightly around the head, turban-style, and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMWednesday, April 8, 2015
What a trouper that Emma Thompson is. The performer has just started playing Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd at the Coliseum, and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMOh, what larks newspapers had with April Fools’ Day. So many jokes to trick the gullible. Such as a newspaper in Milton
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMWednesday, April 1, 2015
Our capital’s City Hall played host to a number of creative industry leaders last week as the Mayor of London unveiled his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMIt was hard to focus on much last week with the sad news that Zayn Malik has decided to leave One Direction.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:28AMWednesday, March 11, 2015
It’s well known that actors are often told to break a leg before an opening night, but what perhaps you didn’t know
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMTicket prices – often complained about, aren’t they? Tabard can’t remember a time when people didn’t think they were paying through the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMWednesday, March 4, 2015
Tabard often wonders what the great and good of theatre do with their lives once they’re through with the industry. Do they
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AMEveryone must have heard by now of Sarah Brightman’s plans to launch herself into space. The singer is now planning a 10-day
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:41AMWednesday, February 25, 2015
Actors: stop bleating on about your low pay and shabby mouse-ridden dressing rooms. Because apparently your lives are better than you may
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AMWho hasn’t bought cheap seats at the theatre, only to move into more expensive ones if they’re empty? Course you have. Just
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMWednesday, February 18, 2015
Well, isn’t that David Tennant a clever clogs? Not only was he this week named best actor at the Whatsonstage Awards, but
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMWell, isn’t that David Tennant a clever clogs? Not only was he this week named best actor at the Whatsonstage Awards, but he also earned the (unofficial) title of “most successful debut …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMIt’s not often you find supermarkets trying to bring a bit of theatre to their stores. But Tabard hears Morrisons has been using mist machines at its fresh-produce counters. It was partly …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMWednesday, February 11, 2015
Tabard enjoys the odd show tune. Who doesn’t? It’s particularly fun to pretend to be Patti LuPone doing Anything Goes (one owns a sailor outfit for just such an occasion) or Barbara Dick…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMCongratulations are in order for The Stage, which turned 135 this week. To mark the occasion, the staff of the company held a bake off – in a similar fashion to that lovely BBC series̷…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMWednesday, February 4, 2015
Tabard can’t help thinking that the organisers of the Coronation Street tour need a lesson in how to best cheer people up when they’re down. You see, they’ve launched an initiative (or…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:50AMWho’s looking forward to watching James McAvoy in The Ruling Class? Tabard is. Because not only does he do his terribly good acting thing, but apparently he also sings and rides a unicycle…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:47AMWednesday, January 28, 2015
You have to hand it to Kay Mellor, she’s got balls. Not in the male anatomy sense of the word, you understand. No, Mellor has shown cojones because she isn’t shy about putting herself ou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMBless Brian Blessed – what a trouper he is. The actor, 78, was performing in a production of King Lear last week in Guildford when he collapsed on stage with apparent heart trouble. Accord…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMWednesday, January 21, 2015
Another year, another theatre poster banned by Transport for London on the Underground. Last year, Shakespeare’s Globe’s production for ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, featuring a couple em…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMJust as Kerry Ellis prepares to join the cast of Cats, news of another production about our favourite felines has emerged – this one simply called Cat. Tabard hears that the one-man show f…
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First there was dressed-down opera and now (do mine eyes deceive me?) there is naked opera. And of all the places to find this type of production, it is in the sleepy seaside town of…
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Everyone knows that to become an internet sensation one must just do something foolish, ask a friend to film said foolish thing and then post it online. But those of you who secretly desire …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AMWednesday, July 9, 2014
While not suffering from that unfortunate condition coulrophobia, Tabard has always taken a lightly sceptical view of clowns, and until recently was thus unfamiliar with the concept of disco…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMTuesday, July 8, 2014
Forgotten lines and prompts from cue cards are not what one would expect from a sell-out arena show. Least of all one by a veteran comedy group such as Monty Python. And yet, reports this…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:38AMWednesday, July 2, 2014
Following much speculation, it has been confirmed that Lindsay Lohan will make her stage debut at London’s Playhouse Theatre, in a production of David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow. And what is…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMTuesday, July 1, 2014
Summer is afoot and so the wedding season begins. But where should one tie the knot? In a charming, rustic church in a remote part of the British countryside or an exotic location where only…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:44AMWednesday, June 25, 2014
News of a London primary school being forced to cancel its annual musical production after parents discovered one of the characters was based on Jimmy Savile will surely raise questions abou…
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