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As The Stage Debut Awards launch, Mark Shenton looks back at those who made an immediate impression… Judi Dench (1957) Dench made her
Musicals can take their time to reach an audience. Dreamgirls " a smash hit on Broadway when it premiered there in 1981
Manchester’s fast-rising Hope Mill Theatre has been open for a little over a year but has already lined up a transfer for
Zinnie Harris, Edinburgh playwright and novelist, is represented in three works.
The Divide will run August 8-20 at Edinburgh’s King’s Theatre.
Thirty-three years after it won an Evening Standard award for best comedy, Stepping Out is putting its frequently. if intentionally, uncertain foot
There’s something both fearless and frightening about Lost Without Words, Improbable’s latest bold theatrical experiment in improvisatory performance. It sends five elderly
I’ve often written about how endangered arts journalism is in mainstream national newspapers. As a supposedly niche interest (even if more people
The London Musical Theatre Orchestra, founded in June 2015, presents its most ambitious and revelatory work to date: the UK premiere for
For once, the person snoring loudly behind me at a first night last week wasn’t a fellow critic, but the guest of
This is the busiest Broadway season for musicals in recent memory. There are 10 new titles debuting there across the year, but
One of life’s more resourceful misers might turn stale brioche loaves into chocolate brioche pudding, with a recipe stating “the staler the
How did critics review two stage classics, and who topped the Olivier nominations?
The annual ceremony is set for April 9 at Royal Albert Hall.
This week, Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead returned to the Old Vic, a month shy of 50 years since it
Nobody mines alternating notes of fury and desolation as Imelda Staunton does. Nor strikes such opposing forces of resilience and hopelessness. After
Season includes work by Jane Horrocks and Simon Stephens.
Broadway is this year already sending two 2015 USÂ musical hits, An American in Paris (now previewing at the Dominion Theatre before opening
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are far from dead, but alive and well and back home at the Old Vic, where, just a month
Creators of the Grammy-nominated show INALA to present new dance show in London following run in Moscow.
Complete objectivity is, of course, impossible to attain in any act of critical judgement, from reviews to awards. One person’s We Will
Casting has also been announced for Forty Years On.
The show will run at the Apollo Theatre in May.
Groundhog Day, Ed Harris, Cherry Jones, Glenn Close, Ian McKellen, and Dreamgirls star Amber Riley also nominated.
I spent last week in New York, where the city has just begun what is undoubtedly the eight business weeks of the
