5,590 stories by "Mark Shenton"
It should be the most obvious thing in the world, but all too often it’s ignored: theatre is, above all, for the audience. Critics are, of course, part of that audience, but are we are…
The new production of Oh What a Lovely War — currently running at Theatre Royal, Stratford East through March 15 where its entire run sold out shortly before its Feb. 10 opening &mdash…
Fame Forever, an official sequel to the stage musical Fame, will receive its professional world première in a fully staged production at the West End's Lyric Theatre that will be …
Oscar-nominated actress Anne Archer, who has previously appeared onstage in the West End in The Graduate, will return to the U.K. stage to star in the world premiere of Terry Jastrow's T…
Tom Conti will take over as Juror Number 8 in the West End production of Twelve Angry Men, currently running at the Garrick Theatre. He will succeed Martin Shaw, beginning performances March…
Everyman Theatre, Liverpool: "If music be the food of love, play on", are the opening lines of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Artistic director Gemma Bodinetz, directing the ope…
Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre has been re-born, after 10 years of planning, 2 years of construction and a £27m budget (including buying an adjoining plot of land to allow the new bui…
“Only hard-core Queen fans can save it from an early bath," wrote Robert Gore-Langton in the Daily Express when it first opened at the Dominion Theatre in May 2002, while I myself call…
St James Theatre, London: Musicals from The Producers to Monty Python's Spamalot and The Book of Mormon have long capitalised on sending up the genre they exist within, cross-referencin…
Marti Webb and other members of the original London cast of Godspell, including Gay Soper, Tom Saffery, Deryk Parkin and Jacquie Ann Carr, will join the previously announced David Essex, who…
We Will Rock You will shutter at the West End's Dominion Theatre May 31, 2014, after a 12-year run of 4,600 performances during which it has been seen there by over 6.5 million people.
London Theatre Workshop: I have in the past reviewed both London incarnations of Adam Gwon's Ordinary Days for The Stage, a little musical with a big story. Its 2008 British premiere wa…
I am looking forward to visiting the all-new Everyman Theatre in Liverpool tomorrow, re-opening – 50 years after it was first founded – after a £27m rebuild. But last night I …
Full casting has been announced for the world premiere of James Graham's Privacy, which will begin performances April 10 prior to an official opening April 22, for a run through May 31.
The full cast has been announced for the return of Lucy Bailey's 2006 production of Titus Andronicus to Shakespeare's Globe, beginning performances April 24 prior to an official open…
In addition to the previously announced Alex Jennings taking over from Douglas Hodge as Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Choclate Factory at the West End's Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, other…
Nominations for the 2014 Olivier Awards, which were announced March 10, are led by Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Merrily We Roll Along (with seven nominations each), with the London …
I spent most of yesterday regretting that I hadn’t crossed the Atlantic to go see the New York Philharmonic Orchestra’s four night run of Sweeney Todd that opened on Wednesday ni…
Daniel Evans, artistic director of Sheffield Theatres and currently represented in the West End by the transfer of his Sheffield production of The Full Monty to the Noel Coward, has announce…
Priscilla Presley, former wife of Elvis Presley to whom she was married from 1967 to 1973 and is best known for starring in the "Naked Gun" films and for playing Jenna Wade on TV&#…
Kristin Chenoweth, who had been scheduled to do a short U.K. tour last March that included dates at London's Coliseum and in Manchester, Edinburgh and Cardiff but was canceled at the las…
1984, a new stage adaptation of George Orwell's dystopian masterpiece jointly written and co-directed by Robert Icke and Duncan Macmillan, will transfer to the West End's Playhouse T…
Park Theatre, London: "Things are impossibly lyrical", we hear in the title song to Do I Hear a Waltz?, a deeply bittersweet 1965 Broadway musical about a Venice-based holiday roma…
The 2014 summer season will see the reopening of the Chichester Festival Theatre, following a £22 million refurbishment that has transformed the auditorium, public and backstage spaces…
Savion Glover is to present the U.K. premiere of SoLe Sanctuary, beginning performances April 3 at London's Sadler's Wells Theatre, for a run through April 6.
