Tag: A Strange Loop
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ShentonSTAGE 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 first preview of a new production of Guys and Dolls, my all-time favourite musical, at the Bridge; I’ve written […]
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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 specialist who earned his dues at the National Theatre before launching Elliott Harper Productions with director Marianne Elliott — became a running joke at […]
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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 THE LEHMAN TRILOGY and Sondheim’s COMPANY were named Best Play and Best Revival of Musical respectively, with the directors of both (Sam Mendes […]
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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 of COCK at the Ambassadors Theatre that saw premium tickets being sold at £400 (subsequently reduced to £150 after the negative […]
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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 HARRY POTTER AND THE CURSED CHILD (now playing in a single play version, not the double bill that it opened […]
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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 here. They saw A STRANGE LOOP leading the pack with 11 nominations, while MJ THE MUSICAL and PARADISE SQUARE got […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for WEDNESDAY APRIL 27
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE. Yesterday I made my first return to London since my spinal surgery two weeks ago, and at the end of next week will be back in New York, as well, thus spanning my personal favourite theatre cities in the English-speaking planet. I’ll be covering some of this here in […]
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Theatre Openings: from w/c April 25 onwards
LAST UPDATED: April 25 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from April 25 2022 onwards Monday April 25: BROADWAY: The Skin of Our Teeth (Vivian Beaumont Theatre) Previews from April 1, opening night April 25. LCT resident director Lilieana Blain-Cruz makes her Broadway debut directing a revival of Thornton Wilder’s play, […]
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Theatre Openings: from w/c April 18 onwards
LAST UPDATED: April 22 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from April 18 2022 onwards Tuesday April 19: LONDON: Bonnie and Clyde The Musical (Arts Theatre), April 9-July 10, press night April 19. Hot on the heels of a sold-out two night concert run at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane on […]
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Theatre Openings: from w/c April 11 onwards
LAST UPDATED: April 11 2022 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from April 11 2022 onwards Monday April 11: BROADWAY: The Little Prince (Broadway Theatre) Previews from March 29, opens April 11. Direct from a run in Sydney, this new musical version of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s novella coms to Broadway (moving its […]