Friday, March 17, 2017
David Hare recently railed against European directors who “distort” classic plays in a way that is beginning, he said, to infect British
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 16, 2017
Here’s a real musical rarity. Sondheim and Burt Shevelove had a big 1960s Broadway and West End hit with A Funny Thing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PM[SHARE]Danny Mac, Fred Haig, and Jeremy Taylor will star as, respectively, Gabey, Chip, and Ozzie.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:59AM[SHARE]The new production stars original cast member Peter Straker as the Acid Queen.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:37AM[SHARE]This Broadway musical, based on a French stage farce, caused a revolution when it first premiered in 1983. A family entertainment that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AM[SHARE]As The Stage Debut Awards launch, Mark Shenton looks back at those who made an immediate impression… Judi Dench (1957) Dench made her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AM[SHARE]Musicals can take their time to reach an audience. Dreamgirls " a smash hit on Broadway when it premiered there in 1981
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Manchester’s fast-rising Hope Mill Theatre has been open for a little over a year but has already lined up a transfer for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00PM[SHARE]Zinnie Harris, Edinburgh playwright and novelist, is represented in three works.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:58AM[SHARE]The Divide will run August 8-20 at Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Thirty-three years after it won an Evening Standard award for best comedy, Stepping Out is putting its frequently. if intentionally, uncertain foot
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00PM[SHARE]There’s something both fearless and frightening about Lost Without Words, Improbable’s latest bold theatrical experiment in improvisatory performance. It sends five elderly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:04AM[SHARE]I’ve often written about how endangered arts journalism is in mainstream national newspapers. As a supposedly niche interest (even if more people
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Monday, March 13, 2017
The London Musical Theatre Orchestra, founded in June 2015, presents its most ambitious and revelatory work to date: the UK premiere for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AM[SHARE]For once, the person snoring loudly behind me at a first night last week wasn’t a fellow critic, but the guest of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 12, 2017
This is the busiest Broadway season for musicals in recent memory. There are 10 new titles debuting there across the year, but
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00PM[SHARE]One of life’s more resourceful misers might turn stale brioche loaves into chocolate brioche pudding, with a recipe stating “the staler the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01PM[SHARE]Saturday, March 11, 2017
How did critics review two stage classics, and who topped the Olivier nominations?
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The annual ceremony is set for April 9 at Royal Albert Hall.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:17AM[SHARE]This week, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead returned to the Old Vic, a month shy of 50 years since it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 9, 2017
Nobody mines alternating notes of fury and desolation as Imelda Staunton does. Nor strikes such opposing forces of resilience and hopelessness. After
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53PM[SHARE]Season includes work by Jane Horrocks and Simon Stephens.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:35AM[SHARE]Broadway is this year already sending two 2015 USÂ musical hits, An American in Paris (now previewing at the Dominion Theatre before opening
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 7, 2017
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are far from dead, but alive and well and back home at the Old Vic, where, just a month
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44PM[SHARE]Creators of the Grammy-nominated show INALA to present new dance show in London following run in Moscow.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:47AM[SHARE]Complete objectivity is, of course, impossible to attain in any act of critical judgement, from reviews to awards. One person’s We Will
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AM[SHARE]Monday, March 6, 2017
Casting has also been announced for Forty Years On.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:34AM[SHARE]The show will run at the Apollo Theatre in May.
SOURCE: Playbill at 09:27AM[SHARE]Groundhog Day, Ed Harris, Cherry Jones, Glenn Close, Ian McKellen, and Dreamgirls star Amber Riley also nominated.
SOURCE: Playbill at 08:08AM[SHARE]Saturday, March 4, 2017
I spent last week in New York, where the city has just begun what is undoubtedly the eight business weeks of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AM[SHARE]Olivier news, a cast album for Dreamgirls, and critics review Andrew Scott’s Hamlet and the U.K. debut of an Off-Broadway hit.
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