5,590 stories by "Mark Shenton"
Ten years on from its original premiere at the National Theatre, and after a subsequent seven-year run in the West End, War
It’s a nice problem to have, but there’s so much theatre happening all the time that it’s easy to get stuck in
Since making his West End debut in Les Miserables, the actor has cemented his status as a musical theatre star, but he
Once upon a time, the National would rely on commercial producers to transfer its shows to the West End. Michael Codron and
Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre had the odds against it when it opened, but two years on, Mark Shenton finds founders Joseph Houston
Alan Ayckbourn’s earliest theatrical trilogy The Norman Conquests originally premiered at Scarborough in 1973 before becoming a long-running West End success. It
Theatre is necessarily a minority activity: even in London's five largest theatres " the London Coliseum, London Palladium, Royal Opera House, Theatre
The tradition of the out-of-town try-out has been a tried and tested route for Broadway shows " developing them away from the
After the Tom Hiddleston Hamlet played at RADA’s 160-seater Vanburgh Theatre for just three weeks, this year’s second most exclusive Shakespearean production
This week a new musical called The Band based around the 90s pop repertoire of Take That opened in Manchester, ahead
To paraphrase the most famous line in Sunset Boulevard, it’s not that the show that has got smaller, it’s the performance that has
Websites fall over themselves to be first with the news, though of course nowadays a piece of breaking news can get amplified
Broadway is soon to send us Hamilton, which " after delays to the official opening " is now going to be not
Four of the five original members of 1990s boy band Take That are billed as co-producers of The Band, a new jukebox
It has long been the case when travelling by aeroplane, that you could be sitting beside someone who has paid half the
As much as I love going to the theatre, there are some theatres I definitely don’t enjoy visiting. And in the middle
Headlong artistic director Jeremy Herrin has been one of the hardest-working directors in recent years. He tells Mark Shenton about his love
It is so easy to sneer at the theatre: “When I go I just worry about the poor bastards forgetting their lines. Particularly
“Do human beings ever realise life while they live it " every, every minute?”, asks a character speaking from the land of
Earlier this year, Susannah Clapp reflected on her first two decades as theatre critic for The Observer and wrote: "Almost nothing for
Blogger Victoria Sadler recently ignited a hornet’s nest with a survey of where women playwrights stand in the hierarchy of what she
Receiving its world stage premiere in Denver prior to a transfer to Broadway next February, Disney's 2013 smash hit fairytale Frozen has
The modern Hollywood age of animated feature musicals has seen them regularly make the trip back to the stage " just last
Last month, Lyn Gardner asked, in advance of this year's Edinburgh Fringe, for people to look out for each other. She wrote:
Peter Hall's accomplishments as a director, across a career spanning more than 60 years, are legendary. We owe both the modern Royal
