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STOPPARD riding high
Tom Stoppard's Rock 'N' Roll has won the 2006 Critics' Circle award for best play, and its star, Rufus Sewell, has bagged the best...
Published on: 31-Jan-2007
BROADWAY triumphant?
In his latest blog, theatreVOICE regular Mark Shenton argues that New York's Broadway has now overtaken London's West End as a fur...
Published on: 29-Jan-2007
Radio LOOKAHEAD for the coming week
Your at-a-glance guide to the best output from the BBC (and beyond). Listen in here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ Sunday 28 Janu...
Published on: 28-Jan-2007
Is LESS really more?
The really short theatre play looks like becoming an unloved and endangered species. In her Guardian blog, Maxie Szalwinska argues...
Published on: 26-Jan-2007
FARR takes on the Ramayana
David Farr, artistic director of the lively Lyric, Hammersmith, talks to Dominic Cavendish, founding editor of theatreVOICE, about...
Published on: 22-Jan-2007
Upcoming NATIONAL THEATRE platforms
Come and see some of this theatre’s eclectic programme of pre-performance events, which celebrate various aspects of the art...
Published on: 21-Jan-2007
BAC threatened with CLOSURE
BAC (aka Battersea Arts Centre) is one of British theatre's treasures. Over the years, this fringe venue has the seedbed of talent...
Published on: 18-Jan-2007
Can CRITICS be friends with artists?
TheatreVOICE regular Mark Shenton discusses the often turbulent relationship between those whose job it is to criticise and those ...
Published on: 17-Jan-2007
LATEST theatreVOICE interviews
Sean Holmes on Bertolt BRECHT and Tim Supple on SHAKESPEARE. Go to listenNOW to hear these two directors offer their highly indivi...
Published on: 16-Jan-2007
Radio LOOKAHEAD for this week
Your at-a-glance guide to the best output from the BBC (and beyond). Listen in here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ Sunday 14 J...
Published on: 14-Jan-2007
Simon READE responds to Ravenhill
With remarkable alacrity, the GUARDIAN arts pages have made room for a response by Bristol Old Vic artistic director Simon Re...
Published on: 12-Jan-2007
Mark RAVENHILL on revivals; TYNAN
How can playwrights earn a living in Britain when so few regional theatres revive new plays? In his Guardian blog, playwright Mark...
Published on: 10-Jan-2007
THEATRE Museum closes; campaign...
The Theatre Museum in Covent Garden closed on Saturday 6 Jan - and while the V&A, its parent organisation, has maintained that...
Published on: 08-Jan-2007
BBC radio lookahead for THIS WEEK
Your at-a-glance guide to the best output from the BBC (and beyond). Listen in at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/ SUNDAY 7 JAN...
Published on: 07-Jan-2007
NEW YEAR trendspotting
The excellent and highly provocative Encore Theatre Magazine blog sets out its highs and lows of the past year, and makes some pre...
Published on: 06-Jan-2007
HARE as you've never heard him before
The New Statesman online has a neat optional feature which allows a piece of text to be read aloud by computer - Sir David Hare's ...
Published on: 04-Jan-2007