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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 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 doing this, with critics often now invited to a range of authorised previews ahead of the opening, but partly because […]
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Theatre 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 LONDON: The Great British Bake Off Musical (Noel Coward Theatre) February 25-May 13, press night March 6. The TV baking show comes to the stage in a musical first seen at Cheltenham’s Everyman […]
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ShentonSTAGE 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 yet again today — my fourth visit in five days — to catch a designated press preview of the […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily Newsletter for Monday February 27
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 the days of the internet), I have always turned to the arts pages first — after first sending the sports pages to the dustbin […]
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Theatre Openings: from w/c February 27
LAST UPDATED: March 3 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 16-September 2, press night February 28. Daniel Fish’s Tony winning Broadway revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma!, re-orchestrated and re-imagined for the 21st century, transfers to […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY FEBRUARY 24
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 new performance space @sohoplace — the West End’s first substantial new build theatre (over 500 seats) in more than half a […]
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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 it’s one of the reasons I keep going to the theatre: it provides me with stories that help me understand […]
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Theatre Openings: from w/c February 20
LAST UPDATED: February 22 2023 Upcoming openings in London, the regions, and on Broadway from February 20 onwards THIS WEEK’S OPENINGS Monday February 20 LONDON: Trouble in Butetown (Donmar Warehouse) February 10-March 25, press night February 20. Tinuke Craig directs the world premiere of Diana Nneka Atuona’s play set in an illegal boarding house in […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY FEBRUARY 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 FEBRUARY 10 I’ve seen some big stars and voices at New York’s best concert space, Carnegie Hall, over the years, from Barbara Cook to Audra […]