Tag: Liz Callaway
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for THURSDAY DECEMBER 29
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, the last of the year, in which I say goodbye to 2022 and hello to the year ahead. As I wrote here last week, we’ve seen an unstable end to 2022, with multiple COVID cancellations to shows, showing the precariousness it has continued to bring to the industry. […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY DECEMBER 16
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. I returned from New York yesterday morning, so today’s newsletter is a wrap-up of my (brief) trip. As I tweeted on my departure on Wednesday night: I reported on some of my trip on Monday here: https://shentonstage.com/shentonstage-daily-for-monday-december-12/ But I definitely saved the best for last: on Monday I […]
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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 FRIDAY OCTOBER 21
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily. The current Tory shitshow Who truly needs the theatre right now, given how much drama the House of Commons is providing on an hourly basis? On Wednesday evening, Charles Walker, a backbencher Tory MP of some 17 years standing, was interviewed, and in a reply of barely contained […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily — Provincetown edition, August 10, 2022
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, coming to you live from Provincetown, MA. I put the newsletter on hiatus while I’m away, but am returning today with a special Provincetown edition. What I’ve been missing….. No, I can’t be everywhere, but I am disappointed that I’ve missed the out-of-town try-outs for not one but […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY MARCH 28
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE, which finds me back in London after a week in New York. Digest of the theatrical week Starting today, I am going to present a new weekly feature every Monday: a digest of the theatrical week just past, both personal and more wide-reaching, including theatrical announcements of the week […]
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ShenTens: My Top 10 list of Broadway shows I’d like to see in the West End
This week’s podcast picks up a suggestion from one of our regular listeners, Tony Lacey who hails from the south west of France, to look at my favourite Broadway shows that are yet to make it across the Atlantic and/or to the West End, and I’d love to see here. TO LISTEN: Thanks to theatres […]
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March 28: That Was the Week That Was….
Today I’m launching a new weekly feature: a column that will digest the last seven days of news, columns and features (and reviews, when we get back to writing them), in tweets, press releases and announcements. SUNDAY MARCH 21:Today’s column asks why, in the 35 years Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera played […]
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Diary of a Theatre Addict: 3 disappointments but 5 pleasures make a good betting average
Another busy week: I loved 7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Songs for a New World, As Is, The Spitfire Grill and revisiting Memphis, but had problems with Sinatra, Mack and Mabel and American Idiot.