Across theatre, demands are being made for employers and industry bodies to take more action in addressing the climate emergency. The Arts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMSeptember 25, 1919: Recently, there have been complaints of theatre reviews coverage declining in mainstream newspapers. But a clipping from 100 years
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMI am compiling a follow up to my Ken Dodd tribute book Absent Friends to be published in November 2020 and would
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMLast week, theatre critic Michael Billington criticised current Shakespeare practice, arguing that he doesn’t “see the level of Shakespearean acting and directing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMThis week’s production news includes an announcement that Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is set to return to the London Palladium
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:52PMPhotos by Alex Brenner and David Monteith-Hodge The Stage Debut Awards 2019: the winners in their own words
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:26PMThe winners of The Stage Debut Awards 2019 were announced at a ceremony on Sunday, September 15 hosted by Cush Jumbo. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMA season of badwill was forecast 25 years ago this week, as Britain’s theatres were warned of a winter of discontent over
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMWhatever the justification for this move it will inevitably look petty and mean-minded, while the cost savings to English National Opera’s budget
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThe Stage Debut Awards, in association with Access Entertainment, were presented at the Brewery in London on September 15, 2019. Best actress
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03PMSeptember 6, 1979: The arts were railing against cuts by the Tory government. Plus ça change… We reported the Theatres’ Advisory Council
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMWith regard to the open letter ‘Playing Jewish roles on stage’ and subsequent correspondence, I feel impelled to draw attention to Motion
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThis week, The Stage looked ahead to shows opening this autumn. As the West End prepares to welcome three new musicals, we’re
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMAs the season of mists approaches, The Stage’s lead critics Natasha Tripney and Tim Bano pick the shows destined to cut through
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMSarah Hadland and Lisa McGrillis will join the cast of Noises Off as it transfers to the West End, it has been
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PMSeptember 1, 1994: In our Showpeople section, interviewing emerging acts from around the UK, we featured Equilibre, a Welsh troupe with animal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFollowing my 19th Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I’ve been wondering what we are all doing and why we are doing it to ourselves.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMJeremy Secomb will lead the cast of Reputation, a new musical by Alick Glass. Secomb, who starred in the West End pie
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMLast week, musical star Rebecca Caine criticised a trend for belting in musical theatre, claiming it has led to a “generic sound”
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMThis week’s production news includes an announcement that Marianne Elliott’s gender-swapped production of Company is to transfer to Broadway, starring Patti LuPone.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:13PMI remember when actors were required to actually act, and when the obsession with representation to the point of absurdity – as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAs the Second World War entered its final year, our editorial posed a question that seems strangely evergreen. “Can one, in these
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMLast week, director Robert Icke criticised rising ticket prices, which he said had been allowed to get “completely out of hand”. Icke
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMAs this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe draws to a close, The Stage’s team of reviewers pick their favourite productions… Tim Bano The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PMAugust 26, 2004: We reviewed the troubled and somewhat delayed opening of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest – featuring Hollywood star
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIn the past few years, theatre has rightly begun to take a long, hard look at diversity, on and off stage. Theatres,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:19AM“As I was going up through the industry, I would often get accusations that I was sleeping my way through the business.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMLast week, Spotlight came under fire for a “totally unacceptable” casting call that went out on its platform for a child actor
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMMusicals Leicester’s Curve has announced casting for West Side Story, which runs from November 23 to January 11, 2020. Adriana Ivelisse and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMAugust 17, 1944: As Britain approached the final 12 months of the Second World War, our editorial discussed the role that theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAs many people are already aware, the Mercury Theatre, Colchester is currently in the midst of a two-year £9.7 million capital project.
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