In this guest blog, producer Rebekah Harvey of 'The Crystal Egg Live' talks about how to make theatre and literature relevant in a world dominated by film and television.
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Five Shows to Book Now for 2018
Polly picks five shows to book now for 2018
Read More »Size Isn’t Everything
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest theatrical venture, the transforming of the St James Theatre in Victoria into The Other Palace, this year opened its doors with the gin-soaked jazz age musical The Wild Party. It featured a cast of 15, cavorting around an exuberant three-storey set that also housed the eight-piece orchestra. It was, by any standards, a spectacular production. Yet for all the spectacle, glamour and glitter, it was one of the dullest shows of the year. With tunes that you forget even while you’re ...
Read More »Adventures in Theatreland: Brian’s
Brian picks runs down his pick of the year and awards the inaugural Reggies.
Read More »Riches to Rags: Two Takes on Opera in 2017
In late November I saw the world premiere of the contemporary opera Marnie at the London Coliseum. In addition to the dozen or so principals, I counted a chorus of 37 who appeared variously as office workers, funeral mourners and party guests. Plus 10 dancers who doubled as scene shifters, and four additional Marnie alter egos. That made an on-stage cast of over 60; add in the orchestra, the lighting engineers and the rest of the backstage crew, and it meant that well over 100 ...
Read More »Rob’s Top Shows Of 2017
Rob Warren picks his top shows of 2017
Read More »Clare’s Top Shows Of 2017
Clare Annamalai picks her top shows of 2017.
Read More »Dipping a Toe in the Edinburgh Fringe
When I arrived in Edinburgh on 22 August, the weather was as moody as I had expected it to be, changing from rain to sunshine and rain again during the short walk to my accommodation. A few months earlier, I had secured a room with the Network of Independent Critics and, for the first time in my life, I was about to experience the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. That first day went in a flash and provoked mixed feelings of discomfort, fear and excitement. Luckily, I ...
Read More »All The Drama of 2017
Eva de Valk runs down the big theatre news of 2017.
Read More »Interview: Susannah van den Berg on ‘Alice in Winterland’
Actress Susannah van den Berg tells us about going down the rabbit hole as the Queen of Hearts in 'Alice in Winterland'.
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