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Coming to a big screen near you – live opera
A season of performances from the Royal Opera House is to be screened live at cinemas in Britain and across Europe.
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Regards to Broadway from West End directors
Friday, 18 July 2008
The last few years have seen a veritable flock of Seagulls land on the stage with varying degrees of success.
The stage is set for dance at festivals
Friday, 18 July 2008
Summer festivals have often had other performers alongside the music.
Kinks' song inspires Ray Davies musical
Thursday, 17 July 2008
A musical based on a song by Ray Davies, frontman of the Kinks, and featuring 20 new tracks by the Sixties legend, will premiere later this year.
Russell Brand joke sparks police warning
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
An on-stage routine by comedian Russell Brand prompted a police warning today about hoax or "frivolous" calls.
Greer furious at play based on her life by 'insane reactionary'
Sunday, 13 July 2008
Academic says that thinly veiled portrait of her is by female writer 'who holds feminism in contempt'
Talent-show musicals bring record crowds to West End
Wednesday, 9 July 2008
Reality TV shows in which performers compete to become West End musical stars have led to record audience figures in London's theatreland.
Why rush-hour commuters will be tangoing in London tonight
Monday, 7 July 2008
This is ‘Tango Commute’, the brainchild of Thomas Lindner, a German-born dancer who, quite simply, wants to cheer up the daily, communal troop homewards – oh, and demonstrate the fine art of "hugging musically", as he rather sweetly puts it.
Vultures circle Holmes' debut on Broadway
Friday, 4 July 2008
It feels, as they might say in the Church of Scientology, like distinctly bad Karma. Two months before the curtains go up, an extremely large vulture is beginning to circle over Katie Holmes' Broadway debut.
'Blue Peter' goes pink in cross-dressing Fringe show
Monday, 23 June 2008
Take one openly gay former Blue Peter presenter, dress him up in drag, add sexually explicit content and light lampooning of his former employers' obsession with their squeaky clean image, and you have a show that is definitely one for after the watershed.
Thirty-nine steps to an unlikely theatrical triumph
Sunday, 15 June 2008
Play that began life in draughty Yorkshire church halls with four actors, a stuffed dog and a very large sheet, takes Broadway by storm
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