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February 19: ShenTens: My Top Favourite Broadway Leading Ladies

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February 12: ShenTens: My Top Ten Favourite West End Theatres

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My Dozen (or so) Best Shows in P-town and beyond this summer

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Summer theatre highlights in Provincetown, Cape Cod and Boston, including appearances by Audra McDonald, Marilyn Maye, Randy Rainbow, drag bingo and music at Herring Cove beach — plus Moulin Rouge in Boston.

Diary of a Theatre Addict: Summer 2018 in Provincetown

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Provincetown is not the place to go cold-turkey from theatre. There’s plenty live performance around — including appearances by Jeremy Jordan, favourite singers like Liz Callaway and Judy Kuhn, and Randy Rainbow. Plus Audra McDonald in nearby Cotuit.

News and reviews from New York: Broadway box office makes history & my Top Six Shows of Spring Season

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Broadway breaks all previous records for a single week, and I choose the half dozen shows I am most looking forward to this spring in New York.

My top ten choices for 2016

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Looking ahead to this year’s highlights, from Broadway imports and Pulitzer prize winners to Kenneth Branagh and Matthew Warchus’s ongoing seasons.

Diary of a theatre addict: From P-town to DC & NYC

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I’ve been to P-town, New York, DC and WIlliamstown in the last fortnight – and I finally catch up in my latest diary today!

Diary of a Theatre Addict: (Not Quite) Taking a Theatre Break

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I saw just five shows last week between London, New York, Boston and Provincetown! I’m having a break….!

Diary of a theatre addict: nine shows, one film and twelve steps!

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I’m Mark Shenton and I’m a theatre addict. There isn’t a 12 Step programme for me there (and I don’t want one), but the 12 Steps are a great recipe for healthy living in other areas, and EVERYMAN clearly uses them.

Recent Articles

  • From the Archives: My Unpublished Interview with Amanda Holden from 2011
  • March 2: Glory palaces of cinema that became theatres — and vice versa — that I long to visit again (or for the first time)
  • March 1: Diary items: Harry Potter’s re-opening Down Under, and the Hospital Club’s closing in London
  • February 28: It’s good to be optimistic — but better to be cautious
  • February 27: Star (and stunt) casting is still all the rage, but is it necessarily a bad thing?
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