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Olivier Awards to be broadcast live on Radio 2 and online
The prestigious Laurence Olivier Awards will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 for the very first time.
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Noel Cowards’s Private Lives wins over the critics
Sex and the City temptress Kim Cattrall is the talk of the town as her West End play proves a huge hit.
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Keira Knightley leads the nominations at Olivier launch
Some of the UK’s hottest actors gathered for the launch of this year’s 2010 Laurence Olivier Awards.
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National Theatre warns customers of database hacking
The National Theatre has had its database hacked into and has contacted 17,000 affected customers.
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Blog: Vermin plaguing theatres, claim Equity. Is it that serious?
An Equity survey claims more than three quarters of West End performers and stage managers confirm there’s a vermin problem in the workplace.
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Are you ready to take a bite of the big apple?
Launch of the TS Eliot Exchange between the US and the UK, is being launched tomorrow at the Old Vic by Jeremy Irons and James Earl Jones.
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Photos: Surviving Actors first convention proves a huge hit
Surviving Actors, the UK’s first actors’ convention held in central London on 30th January, was a huge success.
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Blog: How irritating are today’s theatre audiences?
How many times have you been to the theatre and had to deal with an extra ‘performance’ coming from the auditorium? What are the audience habits that annoy you?
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Theatre Review: King Lear – RSC – Courtyard Theatre
Rupert Bridgwater reviews RSC’s King Lear and discovers a bold and magnificent all round production.
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Preview: Kim Cattrall opens in Private Lives at Vaudeville
Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall will take centre stage in Private Lives, the Noel Coward 1929 comedy classic.
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Theatre Review: Jerusalem – Apollo Theatre
I was afraid of the hype. Everyone’s talking about it. Five star reviews. Countless nominations, numerous awards. The expectations were always going to be high.
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Theatre Review: The Little Dog Laughed – Garrick Theatre
Set in LA and New York, The Little Dog Laughed tells the story of a closet gay actor and the hurdles he faces when confronting his sexuality, writes Benjamin Potter.
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Two students graduate and win roles in Welsh feature film
Carlton Venn and Martin Cannon have just made their debut in the first feature film from Dragon, the Welsh film production company.
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Advice: Just Ask Yvonne – Your career problems answered
Resident Agony Aunt, Yvonne I’Anson, gets to grips with your career problems: Should you get help from a tutor? What’s in a name?
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Advice: I need help emotionally connecting to the role
An audition is an unnatural process and requires you to get into role without fuss. Simon Dunmore gives spot on advice which will help you connect to the role.
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Uncle Dudley wonders why he does the jobs he does.
I was recently asked why I had done some job or other, if, as it seemed, it had been a disaster from start to finish, writes Michael Culkin.
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News: Flashdance Musical Rips into Shaftesbury in Sep
As previously tipped (See The Goss::E8831264188798, 25 Jan 2010), Flashdance – The Musical will receive its West End premiere at the Shaftesbury Theatre later this year, with an expected opening [...]
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News: Rose Scores First Transfer with Hall’s Bedroom
Alan Ayckbourn’s Bedroom Farce will return to the West End this month, when Peter Hall’s revival, seen last autumn at the Rose Kingston, transfers to the Duke of York’s Theatre [...]
Tuesday 9th March 2010 -
News: Flashdance Musical Hits Shaftesbury in September
As previously tipped (See The Goss::E8831264188798, 25 Jan 2010), Flashdance – The Musical will receive its West End premiere at the Shaftesbury Theatre later this year, with an expected opening [...]
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Gossip: X Factor’s McElderry on Offer to Lloyd Webber???
Ramin Karimloo, watch your back! This year’s X Factor victor Joe McElderry is keen to make his West End debut in an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. "If the offer was [...]
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Gossip: South Bank Revisits Lloyd Webber’s Love???
Andrew Lloyd Webber obviously has a soft spot for Melvyn Bragg and ITV’s late South Bank Show. For the last-ever South Bank Show Awards in January (See The Goss::E8831264443684, 25 [...]
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Gossip: What Did Four Billys Tell Gordon Brown???
With a General Election looming, Gordon Brown is doubtless keen to win over as many new Labour voters as possible. Too bad the four current Billy Elliots – Dean-Charles Chapman [...]
Tuesday 9th March 2010 -
Olivier Awards to be broadcast live on Radio 2 and online
The prestigious Laurence Olivier Awards will be broadcast live on BBC Radio 2 for the very first time.
Tuesday 9th March 2010 -
In pictures: Artes Mundi prize
The work of the eight international artists shortlisted for the fourth £40,000 Artes Mundi prize go on display at National Museum Cardiff.
Tuesday 9th March 2010
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Gossip: Michael Ball Tackles Sweeney… & Lovett???
Michael Ball has confirmed rumours that he will star in a revival of Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd next year (See The Goss::E8831257524756, 6 Nov 2009).
Tuesday 9th March 2010
Speaking on Friday Night with Jonathan [...] -
News: Musicals Extend: Brothers, Wicked & Lion King
Several long-running West End musicals – Blood Brothers::E891871907, Disney’s The Lion King and winner of this year’s new Whatsonstage.com Award for Best West End Show, Wicked – have recently announced [...]
Tuesday 9th March 2010
Review: Albert Herring
Royal Academy Opera at the Sir Jack Lyons Theatre, London
In this Royal Academy Opera production of Albert Herring, director John Copley and the cast paradoxically capture the overarching mentality of [...]
