5,590 stories by "Mark Shenton"
An artistic director looks after his or her own theatrical patch: the venue they’ve been appointed to programme and preside over. But
To get one set of largely negative reviews is perhaps a misfortune; to get a second round is starting to look like
All four works nominated for this year’s best musical Tony Awards have something in common: their writers are relatively new to Broadway.
After her breakthrough role in a Coen brothers' film in 1990, the US star has gone on to win an Oscar and
The movies do it all the time. Consider Star Wars: the original 1977 film, A New Hope, had two sequels (The Empire
Musicals typically tell extraordinary stories. The powerful achievement of Working is to tell ordinary stories in an extraordinary way. Based on verbatim
This Sunday the Tony Awards will be presented, marking the culmination of a really vibrant season in New York especially for new
There’s no denying that Miranda Hart’s above-the-title billing as the star of Annie is unashamed stunt casting. She is a TV star
The Almeida Theatre in London is currently advertising for an appointment as it seeks to make a new artistic associate. The associate will
Newbury’s Watermill, located in a 200-year-old countryside mill barn and gardens beside a stream, is one of Britain’s most bucolic theatrical addresses.
This is the time of year when the profession prepares to welcome a new wave of 2017 drama school graduates. They’ve already
Given the Other Palace’s intention to provide a home for the development of new musicals and the fact that many musicals are
Last week I saw yet another production of Julius Caesar, this time at Sheffield's Crucible Theatre. As I noted in my review,
The Regent’s Park summer musical has long been a fixture at the Open Air Theatre, but its increasing importance to the repertoire
Last seen in the West End in 1992, Annie Get Your Gun has been more recently revived at the Young Vic in
The attack at Manchester Arena last week once again showed the vulnerability of places of live entertainment as targets for terrorism. It
After founding the Union Theatre 20 years ago, the director juggles work on the London fringe with commercial tours. She tells Mark Shenton
As a London-based Asian female doctor boards a British Airways flight to India to attend a family wedding, she tells us how
In summer, the arts take on a different complexion. Instead of a way of life, they become a destination, with cities and
Half of this year’s Tony nominees for best play are by female playwrights " Lynn Nottage and Paula Vogel, for their plays
In her brief tenure at Shakespeare’s Globe, Emma Rice has lit a fuse under the theatre’s original mission to devote itself to
Theatre is a way of showing us lives far beyond our own experience; but it lets us into those stories by reflecting
The first and most important thing to say about Robert Hastie’s inaugural production as artistic director at Sheffield Theatres is that the
Each time The Color Purple gets smaller, it seems to grow larger in impact. It started life as a big Broadway musical
“Never work with animals or children,” WC Fields famously declared. The cast of Jez Butterworth’s The Ferryman, now at the Royal Court
