280 stories by "Richard Jordan"
Anyone who has ever worked on Broadway will tell you how intoxicating it is to be a part of its theatre community. New
Travel may broaden the mind, but so too can theatre. Wherever you travel and whatever you see, theatre gathers a community, bringing it
Have you ever had that moment where you read a review and so vehemently disagreed with it that it made you angry?
You didn’t need a crystal ball to see that Harry Potter and the Cursed Child would cast its spell over the Oliviers
This Sunday is the biggest night in the UK theatre awards calendar:Â the Laurence Olivier Awards. In many respects the Olivier Awards show
This weekend, The Play That Goes Wrong receives its Broadway premiere. It continues a remarkable journey for the production and its creator, Mischief Theatre. The Play That
I have just spent the past week at the Adelaide Fringe. It was my 11th visit to the event and this year
In the past two weeks,  Arts Council England has announced that it is moving forward with its numeric assessment grading overhaul of NPO
Last year, the most powerful statement I saw in theatre had nothing to do with what was on the stage. Instead, it was two signs displayed on
La La Land may have missed out on the big one on Oscar night, but it's still been the darling of this year's awards season. But
Last week, a new (well, rebranded) Off-West End theatre opened. Heralding itself as ‘London’s home for the musical’, the Other Palace is
On Saturday, Art by Yasmina Reza ends its 10-week run at the Old Vic Theatre. This first West End revival has seen the play
I saw Buried Child recently at the Trafalgar Studios. Sam Shepard’s brutal and devastating play asks its audience: when you are left devoured of
The Stage recently reported on a group of cross-party MPs calling on the government to ban unpaid internships and revise work experience practices in
A couple of weeks ago, the flashing sign for the London revival of 42nd Street was installed again on the canopy of the Theatre Royal,
The joyous return of pantomime at the London Palladium is significant on many levels. Cinderella, which ended its five-week run on Sunday (January
Last week, this newspaper published The Stage 100, its annual list of industry movers and shakers. Naturally, the eye is drawn to the
A bargain centre like this happens once in a lifetime. So runs the slogan on the canopy of Honest Ed’s discount department
I am hanging onto the final weeks of 2016, before expecting the new works of the next few years to become fixated
Schikaneder is the best musical of 2016. It is also a major moment in Vienna’s Raimund Theatre’s history " a world premiere of a new musical,
Among all the media attention focused on US vice president-elect Mike Pence’s recent visit to Hamilton, two questions remain unanswered: who does
The figures revealing the most-watched British television shows of all time were published in October. Number one was a 1996 episode of Only Fools and Horses,
What an audience sees on the stage is just one part of the theatregoing experience. Before consuming that core element, the customer
Musical theatre abounds with stories of flopped musicals that were revived and rediscovered. Stephen Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along lasted only 16
Hollywood’s annual big-screen serving of fear, suspense and horror is once again upon us as we marked Halloween this week. But while
