Post tagsLast week I met Dr Larry Lynch, Head of the Department of Performance at Falmouth University and his colleague Suzanne Bull. I was keen to find out from them what is going on at the…
Tag: Michael Grandage
The critical and Shakespearean conundrum
“To call this production eagerly awaited would be an understatement,” wrote Michael Billington yesterday in his Guardian review of Nick Hytner’s new production of Othello that had opened the night before at the National. In…
The fortnight ahead in London and beyond, March 25 to April 7
Now that The Book of Mormon has actually opened, we can actually return to normal this week! It wasn’t just the saturation media and marketing coverage that seemed to suggest little else was happening; last…
Short Shorts 71: The changing face(s) of the West End
Kenwright’s absence (temporary, we hope) Could the West End be on the brink of a major revolution, or least evolution? For the first time in over 24 years, Bill Kenwright currently has no show running…
Michael Grandage launches youth theatre company
Michael Grandage has launched a youth theatre, offering 20 youngsters the chance to work alongside his West End company. The Futures Company is looking to recruit young people aged 15 to 25 from “mixed” backgrounds…
Half a century of great musicals: Part Two, 1977 to 1992
I began an impromptu survey of half a century of great musicals yesterday covering the first 15 years of my life from 1962 to 1976, inspired by a 40th birthday party last weekend in which…
The Stage 100 2013: numbers 7 to 10
7th: Michael Grandage and James Bierman The Michael Grandage Company Last year: 7th Highest ever: 2nd When Michael Grandage left the Donmar in 2011, the big question was how he would follow his critically acclaimed…
National Theatre’s Hytner and Starr join Panter and Squire at top of Stage 100
Ambassador Theatre Group’s joint chief executives Howard Panter and Rosemary Squire have topped The Stage 100 for the fourth year in a row. However, this year for the first time, they are joined in equal…
Goodbye 12, Hello 13, Hello Love… (and 39 other shows I’m looking forward to this year)
“Changes, oh! Down below. Up Above”. That’s a lyric, of course, borrowed from A Chorus Line, the Broadway classic returning to the West End next month (from February 2) to the London Palladium, for the…
Theatre vs football
I’ve been thinking about ticket prices quite a lot recently. In the last couple of weeks, I’ve been to see two football matches at (Tottenham Hotspur’s ground) White Hart Lane and sat in (essentially) the…
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