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ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY MAY 9
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE, coming to you this week from New York, where I arrived on Friday afternoon — leaving the UK in dazzling sunshine, but arriving here in drizzle and rain all...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for WEDNESDAY MAY 11
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE, coming to you this week from New York. THE TONY NOMINATIONS On Monday morning the nominees for this year’s 75th Tony Awards were announced — the full list is...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY MAY 13
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE, coming to you this week from New York. Plays making a Broadway comeback Of 35 shows currently on the boards on Broadway, just 12 are plays. But apart from...
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Theatre Openings: from w/c May 16 onwards
LAST UPDATED: May 16 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from May 16 2022 onwards Tuesday May 17: LONDON: Grease (Dominion Theatre) Previews from May 3, with a press opening...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY MAY 16
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE, coming to you again from New York, from where I return to the UK overnight tonight (Monday). Today is going to be a bittersweet day: we complete (or close,...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for WEDNESDAY MAY 18
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE, coming to you back from London again. Greed is Good…. After the outrage of the Elliott Harper price gouging on the final run of tickets for their production...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY MAY 20
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE. I returned from New York on Tuesday morning, and the next day, I was transported back to Broadway for the transfers of not one but two grand old Broadway...
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Theatre Openings: from w/c May 23 onwards
LAST UPDATED: May 23 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from May 23 2022 onwards Monday May 23: LONDON: We Started to Sing (Arcola Theatre) May 19-June 18, press night May...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY MAY 23
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. Last Tuesday saw the official press opening of GREASE at the Dominion Theatre — the same address where the long-running 1993 revival was also launched,...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for THURSDAY MAY 26
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. On Wednesday I was in London for the day to attend the opening at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre of their first summer production, LEGALLY BLONDE, and...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY MAY 27
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. Chickens are coming home to roost all over town right now. These start, of course, with Boris Johnson — finally being exposed as a serial liar when he...
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Theatre Openings: from w/c May 30 onwards
LAST UPDATED: May 30 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from May 30 2022 onwards Monday May 30: REGIONAL: The Play That Goes Wrong (Manchester’s Opera House, May 30-June 4;...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY MAY 30
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. June is bustin’ out all over…. We are very nearly in June, with an abbreviated week ahead as Thursday and Friday are bank holidays. This week duly sees...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for WEDNESDAY JUNE 1
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. Last week I tried to go to Southwark Playhouse twice — first to see LIFT in the main house (the Large, as it is called) last Tuesday afternoon, then...
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Theatre Openings: from w/c June 6 onwards
LAST UPDATED: June 7 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from June 6 2022 onwards Monday June 6: LONDON: The Haunting of Susan A (Kings Head) June 1-26, press night June 6....
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY JUNE 6
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, in which we return to normal after a long weekend celebrating the Queen’s Jubilee. Last week I’ve already reported here on two shows I saw at Southwark...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for THURSDAY JUNE 9
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. Apologies for radio silence yesterday, but I travelled up to London for a two-show day (details below) and didn’t manage to publish beforehand. CATCH...
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Theatre Openings: from w/c June 13 onwards
LAST UPDATED: June 13 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from June 13 2022 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Wednesday June 15 LONDON: Jitney (Old Vic) Co-produced with Headlong...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY JUNE 13
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. BRITISH EXPORTS TO BROADWAY WIN BIG TONY’S At last night’s Tony Awards — the 75th year of the annual ceremony — the London-originated productions of...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for WEDNESDAY JUNE 15
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, with some more notes on Sunday’s Tony Awards. CHRIS HARPER, THE MAN WHO PAYS LuPONE’S SALARY British theatre producer Chris Harper — a marketing...
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