ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY FEBRUARY 20
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. “Tomorrow there will be sunBut if not tomorrow perhaps the day after….” It’s a lifelong journey, for some of us, to find out who we really are. And...
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Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, in which I look back on the last seven days of theatre news and reviews (including my own). FRIDAY FEBRUARY 17 Three shows in, Nica Burns’s wonderful...
View ArticleTheatre Openings: from w/c February 27
LAST UPDATED: February 27 2023 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from February 27 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Tuesday February 28 LONDON: Oklahoma! (Wyndham’s Theatre) February...
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Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. Theatre coverage beyond the arts pages: anti-semitism on stage From the time I started reading newspapers regularly, around the age of 14 (long before...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for THURSDAY MARCH 2
The Week in Review(s) Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, in which I look back on the last seven days of theatre news and reviews (including my own). FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24 I headed to London...
View ArticleTheatre Openings: from w/c March 6
LAST UPDATED: March 6 2023 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from March 6 2023 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS emcr.org/prodTracuction/the-merchant-of-venice-1936/ Monday March 6...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY MARCH 6
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. The excitement of first previews….. I used to attend first nights up to three or four times a week; the system has partly changed since I first started...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY MARCH 10
The Week in Review(s) Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, in which I look back on the last seven days of theatre news and reviews (including my own). FRIDAY MARCH 3 Tonight I attended the...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for Monday March 13
No Pay! No Way! Manchester’s Royal Exchange is staging a new version of an old Dario Fo and Franca Rame 1974 play, Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga, in May, now titled No Pay? No way!, and originally seen in...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY MARCH 17: The Week in Review(s)
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, in which I look back on the last seven days of theatre news and reviews (including my own). FRIDAY MARCH 1 I made a brief trip to Manchester for an...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for Tuesday March 21
Live from Broadway Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, which comes live from New York (hence the late delivery time; I usually publish first thing in the mornings when I’m in the UK)....
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for Friday March 24
The Week in Review(s) Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, in which I look back on the last seven days of theatre news and reviews (including my own). I am just this morning back from five...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for Monday March 27
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. Lift your razor high, Sweeney! In my newsletter on Friday, I pointed out that the composers of the two shows I saw press performances of back-to-back...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for Friday March 31
The Week in Review(s) Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, in which I look back on the last seven days of theatre news and reviews (including my own). I’m relieved to report, too, that...
View ArticleTheatre Openings: from w/c April 3
LAST UPDATED: April 3 2023 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from April 3 2023 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Tuesday April 4 BROADWAY: Shucked (Nederlander Theatre) Previews from...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY APRIL 3: The Oliviers (and more)
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. First the good news — normal service was (finally!) restored to my website on Friday, after nearly three weeks offline, though the newsletters have...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY APRIL 7
The Week in Review(s) Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, in which I look back on the last seven days of theatre news and reviews (including my own). FRIDAY MARCH 31 It was a sad farewell...
View ArticleTheatre Openings: from w/c April 10
LAST UPDATED: April 10 2023 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from April 10 2023 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Tuesday April 11 REGIONAL: Richard III (Liverpool Playhouse) April...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY APRIL 10
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. Audience (mis)behaviour is making the news again. On last Wednesday’s This Morning show on ITV, Vanessa Feltz expressed consternation that audiences...
View ArticleShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY APRIL 14: The Week in Review(s)
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, in which I look back on the last seven days of theatre news and reviews (including my own). FRIDAY APRIL 7 Commercial theatre has one criteria above...
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