That was the week that was….

News, reviews, controversies and interviews of the week from London to Broadway, by way of Edinburgh, including the ‘banning’ of Mazz Murray from singing a song from Dreamgirls, Edinburgh venue pay rates, & a 70-year-old Broadway understudy getting the lead.

That was the week that was….

May 12: Let the memory live again…

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

January 27: The BBC’s celebration of musical theatre The Greatest Show is missing some of Britain’s greatest

January 25: Diary Items: Political theatre in Washington DC; plus Boris Johnson, Judi Dench and Denzel Washington

January 22: ShenTens: My Favourite Movie Musicals

January 17: The journey from stage to film: sometimes a hit, sometimes a miss

January 14: Theatrical friends, rivals and colleagues, from Sheen and Tennant in Staged to a cluster of theatrical dames in Sussex

The week in brief (w/e Aug 19)

Arnold Wesker: my 2005 interview with the veteran playwright