800 stories by "Alistair Smith"
Sometimes the small print can be important. When the John Major government introduced the National Lottery in 1994, it kickstarted a complete
Edinburgh in August is a wonderful, sprawling, unconnected mess. In keeping with that fringe spirit, here are a few uncurated observations on
The 10% fall in students taking performing and expressive subjects is probably not the end of the world. First, we are talking
It has been fascinating to look at some of the issues raised by Labour's Acting Up inquiry through the prism of my
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about how people start and maintain a career in theatre. Originally, this was because I spent
You have to feel for Emma Rice. She's had a pretty rough time as artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe and must have
It has been a seesaw two years since Emma Rice was announced as the artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in May 2015.
Audience behaviour is always a subject of lively debate at The Stage. Rarely a week goes by without someone observing some kind
In 2012, Elizabeth Freestone (then artistic director of Pentabus) and the Guardian produced a fascinating piece of research that revealed that men
I avoid making predictions, but earlier this year I gazed into my dusty crystal ball and made a call on what Arts
For the past year, I've been working on a report investigating the UK's offstage theatre and performing arts workforce. It has been
It's tempting to regard the new Federation of Drama Schools as a like-for-like replacement for the now defunct Drama UK. But it's
Dominic Cavendish, in his Daily Telegraph review of Annie, remarks: "This is just what London needs right now." And he is right.
When Lyn Gardner's theatre blogs were cut by the Guardian earlier this year, the move was met with uproar from the theatre
It is notable from this year's Equity Annual Representative Conference " and indeed from recent issues of The Stage " just how
Our opera special arrives this week, riding on the coat tails of a small controversy. Exeunt, a website that specialises in experimental
Theatre's box office performance against a worsening backdrop of funding cuts is impressive, but it should not be read without a series
Drama schools are an easy target for complaints about the lack of diversity in the performing arts. If the actors on our
"Why are you running a circus special?" someone who works in theatre asked me the other day. I didn't have an immediate
The opening of the Bridge Theatre this October is a big deal. Of course, the opening of any theatre is a big
There was a noticeable and very welcome shift in tone at this year's Olivier Awards. No, I'm not talking about the new
West End box office has gone up for a 13th year in a row. It's tempting to just shrug your shoulders and
Will anyone want to succeed Emma Rice as artistic director at Shakespeare's Globe? As one wag on Twitter put it: "The last
Online ticketing has become a modern-day wild west, so it was satisfying to see Viagogo getting both barrels at the House of
The furore that has greeted the axeing of Lyn Gardner's Guardian theatre blog has underlined that one of the greatest services journalists
