Tag: Birmingham Hippodrome
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That was the week that was (April 25-May 1 2021)…..
This week I launched ShentonStage DAILY, a new daily newsletter that’s intended to land in people’s email boxes every morning on weekdays by 7.30am and on weekends by 9am. It alerts you to my daily column and other news headlines to keep you on top of what’s happening in the theatre world every day! To […]
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February 24: Planning our way towards ‘normality’
On Monday Boris Johnson announced his (apparently irreversible) plans to take us out of lockdown forever. He even provided a detailed timetable of dates when each stage should be implemented. That’s the kind of certainty and commitment that the theatre industry have been begging for. Except that, looking underneath the bonnet of what he’s got […]
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February 19: Filling an empty stage online with a new song by Benjamin Scheuer and dancing from the Birmingham Royal Ballet
TO WATCH ‘Empty Stage’, a short film commission from Birmingham Royal Ballet in association with Impermanence, with concept by Carlos Acosta, choreographic extracts by David Bintley and words and music by Benjamin Scheuer, click below: In just over three weeks time, on March 15, we reach the first anniversary of when theatres across the West […]
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Seeing red on The Color Purple
How religious freedoms and freedom of speech are clashing over the casting of the lead in a new regional production of The Color Purple.