5,590 stories by "Mark Shenton"
I’m heading back to Edinburgh this weekend for a five-night visit. Last year I went up for two nights only, saw just
“How the fuck did this happen?”, asks Michael Moore at the start of the (mostly) solo polemic he has brought to America’s
Broadway dimmed its lights on August 9 to mark the death of Barbara Cook at the age of 89 the previous day.
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe is once again upon us, and with it some 3,398 productions from which to choose. No single publication,
In the space of just seven days last week, I managed to be in the following places: I woke up in Provincetown
Andrew Lloyd Webber is without question Britain’s most successful musical theatre composer of all time " not only does he currently have
While Andrew Scott is giving us his Hamlet at the Harold Pinter Theatre in the West End (a production that originated at
Stephen Sondheim once characterised his 1973 Broadway musical A Little Night Music as being like “whipped cream with knives”. Its rich palette
The brutal economics of Broadway's dependence on star casting has been underlined by two current shows. First, Hello, Dolly!, which is doing
The Lichfield Garrick follows its 2016 production of Howard Goodall’s The Hired Man by staging another Goodall-scored show, The Dreaming. This is
Last week, I was still living my theatrical life vicariously from Cape Cod, via the constant stream of news and reviews coming
Natasha J Barnes lived the showbiz fairytale of going out as an understudy for Funny Girl and returning a West End star. She tells
As Killian Donnelly, one of the West End’s finest and hardest-working musical-theatre performers, takes on the role of Valjean in Les Miserables,
Institutional sexism, like institutional racism, is insidious and hard to prove " unless confronted by hard facts, such as the BBC's enforced
I’m having my annual break away from the theatre (for the most part) by holidaying in Provincetown on Cape Cod. But though
The Doctor is, at last, going to be played by a woman. More than 50 years after the BBC launched the franchise
After the announcement that David Lan is to step down from the artistic directorship of the Young Vic, I suggested six possible
It’s summer and therefore time for holidays. Here’s how I like best to spend my summer. 1. Provincetown, Massachusetts Provincetown on Cape
No matter that big screen success failed to follow an Oscar win, the Homeland star has worked steadily on the stage and
Last Saturday the annual London LGBT Pride Festival Parade took place. It used to be called a march, but nowadays it is
Playwrights are entitled to a large degree of control over their work. They've created it, after all. But how far does that
As she returns to the West End in RSC's Queen Anne, the actor tells Mark Shenton about her big break on television
The title is deliberately cheeky " and so are a lot of the jokes " in He Shoots! He Scores!, a modest
“My name’s Mark and I’m a theatre addict.” I’ve previously confessed that I’m an addict in many areas of my life; if
As The Stage celebrates musicals this week, it’s worth remembering that there are significant challenges facing the genre that dominates the West
