Category: Thought of the day
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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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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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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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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 […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for Tuesday February 14
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. BROADWAY: A THEME PARK AND NOW A MUSEUM (LITERALLY) Broadway, from where I returned just yesterday, increasingly resembles a theme park, with various “experiences” on offer, from Harry Potter and Michael Jackson brought to 3D stage life to the history of the founding fathers of America in the […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY FEBRUARY 10
The Week in Review(s) Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, in which I look back on last week’s news and reviews (including my own) FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3 Vicky Featherstone (pictured below) today became the third artistic director of a major London theatre to announce in the last three weeks that they are stepping aside, […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for TUESDAY FEBRUARY 7
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, live from New York once again. My main reason for scheduling my current trip to NYC was a 50th anniversary concert of (some of) the surviving cast members of Pippin, one of my favourite Broadway shows of all time, that took place last night at 54 Below (and […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY FEBRUARY 3: The Week in Review(s)
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, in which I look back on last week’s news and reviews (including my own) FRIDAY JANUARY 27 Rob Madge’s solo autobiographical show My Son’s A Queer (But What Can You Do?) has begun its second West End run, now at the Ambassadors Theatre (newly and beautifully refurbished, which […]