Tag: Stephen Sondheim
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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 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 FRIDAY JULY 8
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE Daily, and apologies for radio silence on Wednesday, but I’ve been running about a bit this week. I was in London overnight on Tuesday, then took a train up to Leeds on Wednesday, before returning for another day in London yesterday As sometimes happens, I managed to schedule two […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY MAY 6
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE, which is my week in review(s) and news, plus reviews of others, too. SATURDAY APRIL 30 Today I attended the London Gay Men’s Chorus 30th anniversary show, SONDHEIM SONGTIME, a celebration of all things Sondheim, at Cadogan Hall, which was at its best when at its simplest: just singing the […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for WEDNESDAY MAY 4
Welcome to today’s packed edition of ShentonSTAGE! The Cinderella fall-out continued In a tweet on Monday, Telegraph chief theatre critic Dominic Cavendish suggested aloud: During the early days of the pandemic, the same Andrew Lloyd Webber had used Cavendish and the Telegraph as his personal megaphone to amplify his protests against the government’s supposedly unfair […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for WEDNESDAY MARCH 16
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE. Sondheim for the 1,074 lucky one-percenters On Monday, I wrote here about the high prices for the West End run of COCK in the under-endowed Ambassadors Theatre (at least from the point of view of number of seats available to sell, thus pushing up its exclusivity already) that opened […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for MONDAY MARCH 7
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE. Old Friends do tend to become old habit……. Never knewHow much I missed you till now.” That lyric, of course, is from Sondheim’s MERRILY WE ROLL ALONG, his haunting portrait of how long-enduringnow friendships change and are compromised over the years in a show that rewinds from the disillusioned […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRIDAY MARCH 4
Welcome to today’s edition of ShentonSTAGE. New ShentonSTAGE LIVE Theatre Dates rolling blog I have introduced a new live rolling blog on my website, ShentonSTAGE LIVE Theatre Dates that will highlight new announcements as they happen, including today’s announcement of a big Stephen Sondheim gala, appropriately of course to take place at the Sondheim Theatre, […]
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ShentonSTAGE Daily for FRI DEC 10
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. FROM TODAY MASKS ARE NOW COMPULSORY AT LAST… SO TWO CRITICS TOOK ONE LAST STAND LAST NIGHT At the Young Vic last night, which had already mandated mask wearing […]
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That Was the Week That Was
After the passing of Stephen Sondheim the weekend before last, this week saw the loss of another iconic theatre figure: South African born actor Antony Sher, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer earlier this year, so at least his passing was not unexpected. But we also lost the more unsung Robert Holman last week, a […]