5,590 stories by "Mark Shenton"
“Let’s get together and feel all right,” is the prominent refrain of Bob Marley’s hit song One Love. It’s also the take-home
Theatre can make you forget time " or be acutely aware of its passing. This was brought into sharp relief for me
What do critics think of An American in Paris on the West End, and will Simon McBurney return to Broadway?
Sheena Easton has had quite some professional life, spanning a recording career, live concert artist, TV actor and the Broadway stage. But
Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare's epic drama of the passionate and violent co-dependent relationship between the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra and Roman power broker
Last week I listed my favourite directors of the classics, and today it’s the turn of directors whose work in musicals I
Simon McBurney, whose last solo show for Complicite was the astonishing sensory experience of The Encounter, which cocooned each theatregoer in a
The Royal Shakespeare Company launches its Rome season with Julius Caesar, a play I’ve seen twice recently " in Phyllida Lloyd’s remarkable
Denise Welch, Gary Wilmot, Craig Mather, and Simon Lipkin join the cast of the new musical.
Christopher Wheeldon trained as a child at the Royal Ballet School and then graduated to join the Royal Ballet at 18, before
I know times are tough, and with standstill public subsidies theatres need to be creative when it comes to doing the work
The hit stage version of the best-selling novel will have a second London run at the Playhouse Theatre.
The production will raise money for the theatre.
Theatre, like society itself, is in a constant state of flux, and it goes without saying that we are living in changing
Hot on the heels of Matthew Bourne’s adaptation of the 1948 dance film The Red Shoes as a new narrative ballet comes
The award-winning production makes its official West End bow March 21.
Last year the National revived Rattigan’s bleakly stunning masterpiece The Deep Blue Sea, in which the reservoirs of pain caused by unrequited
This time last week I was remarking on the coincidence of seeing the Almeida Theatre’s new Hamlet and Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and
Seven years after it was first seen at the Barbican, Ivo van Hove’s astonishing distillation of three of Shakespeare’s Roman plays into
The Edinburgh festival announces its international program, and over 40 theatres band together to defend a critic.
David Hare recently railed against European directors who “distort” classic plays in a way that is beginning, he said, to infect British
Here’s a real musical rarity. Sondheim and Burt Shevelove had a big 1960s Broadway and West End hit with A Funny Thing
Danny Mac, Fred Haig, and Jeremy Taylor will star as, respectively, Gabey, Chip, and Ozzie.
The new production stars original cast member Peter Straker as the Acid Queen.
This Broadway musical, based on a French stage farce, caused a revolution when it first premiered in 1983. A family entertainment that
