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ShentonSTAGE Daily for WED FEBRUARY 2
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily You can also get regular updates throughout the day on ShentonSTAGE LIVE, a rolling theatre blog that appears on my website, updated throughout the day as necessary, to reflect news updates and other observations and commentary as they occur. The landing page for this is here: https://shentonstage.com/shentonstage-live/ MASKING […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY DECEMBER 31
Welcome to today’s special New Year’s Eve dition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, coming out of its temporary hibernation (and official COVID-induced Quarantine!) to bid farewell to 2021. (Please feel free to forward this e-mail to friends, and invite them to be added to this list!) So much virus insideThat her microscope slideLooks like a day at […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for THURSDAY DECEMBER 2
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily that is e-mailed to subscribers every morning (to subscribe, send message to ShentonStageMailingList@gmail.com), and is also available online here. JULIAN BIRD STEPS DOWN FROM SOLT/UK THEATREJust yesterday, I was quoting the response of Julian Bird, joint CEO of SOLT and UK Theatre back in September after I wrote […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily Newsletter for TUESDAY NOVEMBER 30
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily that is e-mailed to subscribers every morning (to subscribe, send message to ShentonStageMailingList@gmail.com), and is also available online here. THE RSC INTRODUCES MANDATORY FACE COVERINGS Yesterday the RSC announced that effective today it is mandating the wearing of face coverings within its buildings and performances at its home […]
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Review: The Windsors Endgame
In what Hamlet might call an e’er hasty marriage, The Windsors Endgame has been rushed into the Prince of Wales as a summer filler to temporarily replace one deliberately bad-taste show with a no-taste one, as The Book of Mormon remains on its Covid hiatus. It’s by some stretch the best joke of the show […]
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February 12: ShenTens: My Top Ten Favourite West End Theatres
In a month and four days time — March 16 — we will reach the first anniversary of the sudden shut down of every West End theatre, followed the same or next night, by every other theatre in London and around the country, thanks to Boris Johnson’s announcement on what would become the first of […]
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Going Full Addict: Adding Six More Shows to My Tally Last Week Between Friday and Sunday
Jenna Russell, Anna-Jane Casey, Julie Atherton, Sooz Kempner/Richard Thomas — Live in London season at Hippodrome London, https://www.fw-live.com The Comeback, Wyndham’s Theatre, https://www.delfontmackintosh.co.uk/tickets/the-comeback/ West End Does Christmas 2020, Cadogan Hall, https://www.westenddoes.com/what-s-on. Last Friday I posted a review column of the first slate of four shows I’d seen last week; by last night, I’d increased my […]
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London reviews: between lockdown 2 and possible tier 3 restrictions
Love Letters (Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London SW1) **** (Booking to February 7; more details/to book: https://trh.co.uk/whatson/love-letters/) The Dumb Waiter (Hampstead Theatre, London NW3) **** (Booking to January 16; more details/to book: https://www.hampsteadtheatre.com/the-dumb-waiter/) Nine Lessons and Carols (Almeida Theatre, London N1) *** (Booking to January 9; more details/to book: https://almeida.co.uk/whats-on/nine-lessons-and-carols/2-dec-2020-9-jan-2021) GHBoy (Charing Cross Theatre, London WC2) […]
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Every day a little death…..
Every day a little death from the 1973 musical A Little Night Music is one of my favourite but most crushing Sondheim songs, articulating precisely those tiny moments of accumulating despair in a dying relationship. “Every move and every breath/ And you hardly feel a thing, /Brings a perfect little death.” Somehow that song also […]