ShentonSTAGE Daily — Provincetown edition, August 10, 2022
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, coming to you live from Provincetown, MA. I put the newsletter on hiatus while I’m away, but am returning today with a special Provincetown edition....
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for TUESDAY AUGUST 16
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, which returns to normal service this week after my Provincetown hiatus (which I interrupted this time last week for a special one-off PTown edition)....
View ArticleTheatre Openings: from w/c August 22 onwards
LAST UPDATED: August 22 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from August 17 2022 onwards UPDATED: August 17, 2022 THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Monday August 22: LONDON: Treason the...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for THURSDAY AUGUST 18
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. I head up to Edinburgh this Sunday, but only for a VERY brief three night stay; enough to dip my toes into some of the glories of the world’s largest...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY AUGUST 22 — Edinburgh special, day one
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE, live from Edinburgh, where I arrived yesterday for a fast and furious three day stay: hardly enough to capture more than a mere fraction of the fringe, of...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for TUESDAY AUGUST 23 — Edinburgh Edition 2
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, live from Edinburgh for the second full of my fast three day jaunt up here. And the rubbish has started getting to me — no, not the shows (I’ve chosen...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY AUGUST 26
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, at the end of a busy week that saw me begin it in Edinburgh, return home to West Sussex on Wednesday, then head to Bath yesterday, and finds me today...
View ArticleTheatre Openings: from w/c August 29
LAST UPDATED: August 29 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from August 29 2022 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Wednesday August 31: REGIONAL: The Narcissist (Chichester’s...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY AUGUST 29
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, filed on the last bank holiday of the year and with today’s official end to the Edinburgh Fringe seeing us now, finally, bracing for what promises to...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 1
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, on the first day of the (meteorological) autumn — the first day of the astrological autumn doesn’t come till September 23. As we plunge into a season...
View ArticleTheatre Openings: from w/c September 5
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View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY SEPTEMBER 5
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, where — after returning from Edinburgh where the one-man show is king (or queen, or non-binary) I saw two one-person shows in London on consecutive...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 9
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, after an extraordinary day that saw us bid farewell to Her Majesty the Queen, after a reign of 70 years that saw her appoint 15 prime ministers — the...
View ArticleTheatre Openings: from w/c September 12
LAST UPDATED: September 12 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from September 12 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Monday September 12: LONDON: The Clinic (Almeida Theatre)...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY SEPTEMBER 12
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, on the first day of my sixties! So happy birthday to me! It’s certainly been an eventful life (so far) — and, hopefully, it is far from over yet. If...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, live from New York, where I’m celebrating the start of my latest decade on the planet. It is a slightly bittersweet trip, as it is our first time back...
View ArticleTheatre Openings: from w/c September 19
LAST UPDATED: September 19 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from September 19 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Wednesday September 21: LONDON: The Crucible (National’s...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY SEPTEMBER 19
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, again from New York, where I’ve managed to miss most of “last week’s national state of mourning back home for the Queen’s passing. Viewed from this...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, at the end of another key week in the continuing history of our great national companies. The RSC appointed Daniel Evans and Tamara Harvey as its new...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY SEPTEMBER 26
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. The health of the theatre depends, at least partly, on the health of the critical response that is offered to it. Of course the theatre CAN do without...
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