Tag: English National Opera
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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 FRIDAY JANUARY 6
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. I am, starting today, trying out a new weekly feature, in which I review and comment on the week’s headline news and reviews, as well as other more personal landmarks. Saturday December 31 The New Year’s Honours list included the award of an OBE to Julian Bird, former […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 7
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. Yesterday I went to musical theatre heaven — followed immediately by musical theatre hell. Those are the contrasting joys and disappointments of London theatre you can have in a single day. Let’s start with the heavenly — COLORED LIGHTS, which I saw yesterday afternoon at the Royal Academy […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY DECEMBER 2
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. We are, astonishingly, already in December — and the panto season is even upon us already. I’m going to see MOTHER GOOSE (with Ian McKellen in the title role) in Brighton on Sunday (no, not a press night — I bought a ticket), while Hackney Empire’s version of […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY NOVEMBER 21
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. Life is a cabaret, old chum… but it can be taught new tricks I love musical theatre, as regular readers will know; but I adore cabaret. There is nothing quite like the intimate art of singers revealing themselves in song in close quarters; in the last few weeks, […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY OCTOBER 8
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. Is awarding three stars a cop out — or a true reflection that most things are only average? On the home page of the theatre section of The Guardian yesterday, five current reviews were featured of shows from Clwyd, Chichester and Liverpool, to London’s Royal Court and Bridge […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY APRIL 11
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE, posted ahead of my spinal surgery later this morning. So although on Friday I said I wouldn’t be back till this Friday, I’m here anyway, with my digest of last week in the theatre and the week ahead, both personal and more wide-reaching, including theatrical announcements of the week […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for THURSDAY DECEMBER 2
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily that is e-mailed to subscribers every morning (to subscribe, send message to ShentonStageMailingList@gmail.com), and is also available online here. JULIAN BIRD STEPS DOWN FROM SOLT/UK THEATREJust yesterday, I was quoting the response of Julian Bird, joint CEO of SOLT and UK Theatre back in September after I wrote […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 1
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily that is e-mailed to subscribers every morning (to subscribe, send message to ShentonStageMailingList@gmail.com), and is also available online here. MASKING UP: THEATRES SUDDDENLY REQUIRE MASKING I’ve been campaigning for months — ever since Boris Johnson’s so-called “Freedom Day” in July, when all social distancing restrictions were lifted, that […]
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That Was the Week That Was: October 25-31
MY COLUMNS AND REVIEWS OF THE WEEK Monday October 25: Last week’s That Was the Week That Was column for Oct 18-24): https://shentonstage.com/that-was-the-week-that-was-october-18-24/ ShentonSTAGE Daily Newsletter for today: https://shentonstage.com/shentonstage-daily-for-monday-october-25/ Tuesday October 26: My weekly updated list of new and returnng shows in London, on Broadway and beyond: shentonstage.com/october-25-update-latest-scheduled-new-returning-shows/ My ShentonSTAGE Daily Newsletter: https://shentonstage.com/shentonstage-daily-for-tuesday-october-26/ Wednesday October […]