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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY JUNE 17
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. THE PERILS OF ‘CLIENT JOURNALISM’ It’s usually a fact of journalistic life that journalists shouldn’t become the story. But sometimes the telling of...
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Theatre Openings: from w/c June 20 onwards
LAST UPDATED: June 20 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from June 20 2022 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Monday June 20: LONDON: The Witches of Eastwick (Sondheim Theatre)...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for WEDNESDAY JUNE 21
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. This is the only edition I will be publishing this week, as I leave for a week on the Costa Brava in Spain today at 6am…. I will be back here tomorrow...
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Theatre Openings: from w/c June 27 onwards
LAST UPDATED: June 27 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from June 27 2022 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Monday June 27: LONDON: The Throne (Charing Cross Theatre) June...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for WEDNESDAY JUNE 29
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. I’m back after a restful, non-theatre week in Spain, though I have inevitably kept pace with what’s been happening back home, like Sunday’s opening of...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY JULY 1
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. I unexpectedly had a double Disney day in the West End yesterday — going to see the London opening, as scheduled, of the tour of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for JULY 4
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, and happy 4th of July to American readers. We keep being told we live through unprecedented times, and as the New York Times reported Donald Trump’s...
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Theatre Openings: from w/c July 4 onwards
LAST UPDATED: July 4 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from July 4 2022 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Monday July 4: LONDON: The Throne (Charing Cross Theatre) June 23-July...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY JULY 8
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, and apologies for radio silence on Wednesday, but I’ve been running about a bit this week. I was in London overnight on Tuesday, then took a train up...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY JULY 11
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, focused on current and upcoming Broadway shows. On Friday I wrote here about two Sondheim revivals I’d just seen — A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC, presented by...
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Theatre Openings: from w/c July 11 onwards
LAST UPDATED: July 11 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from July 11 2022 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Tuesday July 12: Patriots (Almeida Theatre) July 2-August 20, press...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for WEDNESDAY JULY 13
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, as we face yet another worrying COVID surge. I’ve often felt alone in sounding the alarm over the last two years and more over the theatre industry’s...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY JULY 15
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. In two hot days of theatregoing in London this week, I caught four shows — two of which I’d seen before and was returning for a second helping of. And...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY JULY 18
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, and as the mercury looks like it might hit 40C today in parts of Britain, I hope you are managing to stay as cool as possible. It’s at times like this...
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Theatre Openings: from w/c July 18 onwards
LAST UPDATED: July 18 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from July 18 2022 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Monday July 18: LONDON: Much Ado About Nothing (National’s Lyttelton...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for WEDNESDAY JULY 20
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. As we know, only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noon day sun; and mad dogs and theatre critics, of course, still go to the theatre, despite the...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY JULY 22
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. I reported here on Wednesday on the previous night’s opening of CRAZY FOR YOU at Chichester Festival Theatre, about which other critics turned out to...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY JULY 25
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. Last week ended with the (comparatively) rare occurrence of a Friday night press night at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park — a strategy that is...
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Theatre Openings: from w/c July 25 onwards
LAST UPDATED: July 25 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from July 25 2022 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Monday July 25: LONDON: Chasing Hares (Young Vic Theatre) July...
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY JULY 29
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, being sent just before I head off for Boston and then on to Cape Cod later today for two weeks. I may do a mid-holiday edition of this newsletter, but...
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