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Exclusive: New Off-West End venue to replace Westminster Theatre after ten-year wait

A replacement for the old Westminster Theatre will finally open this autumn, following a protracted and sometimes bitter decade-long battle to create a new purpose-built, mid-scale theatre in central London. The St James Theatre will launch at the...

Third London Great Gatsby adaptation announced

A third London stage adaptation of The Great Gatsby has been announced in two days, with a musical version due to open at the King’s Head Theatre in August. The Great Gatsby Musical will run at the Islington venue from August 7 to September...

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Children in theatre

Education and Training: A year or so ago I interviewed Jo Hawes for the Training page in The Stage about her very successful new (then) masterclasses for children wanting to audition for professional shows. Jo, whom I’ve known for some time, is...

Theatres on a roll

Shenton’s View: Success in the theatre, as in life, breeds success; they acquire momentum, confidence and of course an audience in turn, and a virtuous circle is created. The opposite is also true: there are theatres locked in vicious cycles of...

Gut instinct versus hard facts

Shenton’s View: Because theatre is live and therefore endlessly mutable, it is one of the most instinctive, intuitive and personal art forms around to respond to: whatever we feel about it cannot be a snapshot of the event in its entirety,...

Do you want to learn the craft in an actor training company?

Education and Training: Here’s something different. Could this modus operandi possibly evolve into the way forward in these cash strapped times? Fourth Monkey Theatre Company is an actor training company led by Steven Green. Based in Muswell Hill in north London’s Borough...

The changing rules of PR engagement

Shenton’s View: I’ve previously worried away here at the fate of critics in an ever-changing media landscape, where dead-tree journalism is hurtling the way of the Dodo towards flightless oblivion, but since everyone’s a critic already on the internet, there’s a...

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