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TheatreVOICE resumes BBC RADIO lookahead
Want to catch the best drama and theatre-related programming on radio? Help is at hand with our new regular run-down of the best o...
Published on: 31-Dec-2006
LLOYD WEBBER ranked theatre's top dog
In THE STAGE newspaper's annual round-up of the top 100 theatre industry movers and shakers, Andrew Lloyd Webber has regained top ...
Published on: 28-Dec-2006
Is the ROYAL EXCHANGE our best theatre?
In her GUARDIAN blog, Anna Pickard describes Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre as the most magical space in the land. Is she rig...
Published on: 26-Dec-2006
The year in review; SEASON'S GREETINGS
We'd like to thank everyone who helped keep the site going during a difficult year, and we'd like to thank YOU, theatrevoice liste...
Published on: 23-Dec-2006
KING LEAR at Christmas
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the first production of King Lear, BBC Radio 4 is broadcasting a special programme at 2.15pm...
Published on: 22-Dec-2006
Is The Pirate Queen the new LES MIS?
Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg, the team behind the record-busting musical Les Miserables, have teamed up together...
Published on: 19-Dec-2006
AS BYATT on Henrik IBSEN
Book of the week in the GUARDIAN Saturday review: Henrik Ibsen and the Birth of Modernism by Toril Moi (Oxford University Pre...
Published on: 17-Dec-2006
THEATREVOICE records highest hit-rate
More VISITORS per day than ever came to the site this week (Mon 11- Fri 15/12/2006), with unique visits running at 887 on Tuesday,...
Published on: 16-Dec-2006
George STEINER on Georg BUCHNER
The Times Literary Supplement online carries, in its free-to-access section, a modest amount of its articles on theatre. This week...
Published on: 14-Dec-2006
Any limits to AUDIENCE participation?
As the PANTO season gets into full swing, bloggers everywhere have been inspired to comment on the old rituals of audience partici...
Published on: 13-Dec-2006
How to upgrade your SEAT
Still fed up with paying the asking price for costly theatre tickets? In The Times, journalist Jeremy Austin reveals his cunning p...
Published on: 12-Dec-2006
Alan PLATER talk at the National Theatre
There are plenty of PLATFORMS at the NT this week, the slot that gives you the chance to spend 50 minutes in the company of a rang...
Published on: 09-Dec-2006
Debate on GAY theatre
Novelist Stella Duffy takes on the Guardian critic Michael Billington in a discussion about whatever happened to gay and lesbian t...
Published on: 08-Dec-2006
WEST END not yet dead
Obituaries for straight plays in London's Theatreland may have been a bit premature, as Six Dance Lessons in Six Weeks and Love So...
Published on: 07-Dec-2006
Should REVIEWS be non-political?
In his latest blog, critic Brian Logan points out that recent reviews of Caryl Churchill's Drunk Enough To Say I Love You? and Dav...
Published on: 06-Dec-2006
Are CRITICS parasites and eunuchs?
This FRIDAY, December 8th, there will be a public debate on the subject of critics at the Menier Chocolate Factory, starting at 6p...
Published on: 05-Dec-2006
Campaign to save the THEATRE MUSEUM
A last-ditch campaign to persuade the V&A not to close the Theatre Museum's Covent Garden premises to the public has been laun...
Published on: 03-Dec-2006
MOSCOW Theatre Siege recalled on YouTube
Five-minute YouTube video commemoration to mark the fourth anniversary of the Moscow Theatre Siege watchable here.What are your fa...
Published on: 02-Dec-2006
Simon READE takes on BILLINGTON
BRISTOL Old Vic artistic director Simon Reade hits back at Michael Billington about the dearth of new plays in the West End, argui...
Published on: 01-Dec-2006