280 stories by "Richard Jordan"
With Hamilton dominating the 2016 Tony Award nominations, expect to see producers hurriedly looking for the next hip hop musical. You can almost hear the
It used to be called the Great White Way, but as the 2016 Tony nominations " announced on Tuesday " reflect, that term cannot
Last year I attended a performance of a play at London’s intimate Bush Theatre. In the last few minutes of it, a
In May 1998 possibly one of the boldest pieces of programming ever happened in the West End at the Duke of York’s
Over the past couple of months I have revisited two great long-running musicals: Les Miserables on Broadway, and The Phantom of the Opera on tour in Toronto. Both
Has the film-star bubble burst on Broadway? Or have audiences just realised that paying $161 dollars for 55 minutes of entertainment is
The Olivier Awards are arguably British theatre's most important night of the year and its single biggest advert. My hope is that
The Adelaide Fringe, the second largest fringe festival in the world, ended on March 14. Although far short of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the
“I’m sorry if this seems strange, but I’m trying to have a conversation with someone I wouldn’t normally get to speak with.”
The lights go up on the new Broadway production of Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock’s iconic musical Fiddler on the Roof with
“Ignored and unthanked and uncredited washing other people’s gussets; it’s like a career in all the very worst bits of being married.
Forty-eight years ago, a composing duo called Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice premiered a short musical called Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at
Since David Bowie's death on January 10, Lazarus, the David Bowie, Enda Walsh and Ivo van Hove musical creation, has become the most talked about
There is perhaps something now sadly reflective – if not heart-breaking – in the winking marquee above An American in Paris at Broadway’s Palace Theatre in
Car crash theatre. That’s how a colleague described Al Pacino’s return to the Broadway stage in David Mamet’s new play, China Doll. For
Happy new year and hello 2016 " From Shakespeare to Lloyd Webber, Chekhov to a crazy puppet, 2016 promises to be a
My year in theatre fittingly began and ended with two musicals: the first a revival of Assassins at the Menier Chocolate Factory; the last, Wonder.land at the National t…
A star is born. This age-old theatrical expression has become a bit hackneyed, though its essence " the idea of someone being
There is a lot riding on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s School of Rock, the musical that premiered on Broadway this week, based on the
Theatres must be run as businesses. That was the driving message in last month's BBC series of 30-minute documentaries about UK theatre.
In the past week, I experienced the first time I have ever been to the theatre and thought about my safety while
The West End has changed significantly in the past two decades. Now, only four West End theatres are independent theatres, rather than
Last week, Asif Kapadia’s compelling documentary Amy " about singer Amy Winehouse " was released on DVD. It’s a disturbing and difficult two hours charting the sin…
At the curtain call of Hamlet at the Barbican Centre, on the eve of ending its run, Benedict Cumberbatch made his nightly heartfelt speech about
A few weeks ago, I talked to a group of theatre students about theatre producing. I asked them who their favourite playwrights
