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Putting Manchester at centre stage... (Manchester Online)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:38:37 GMT

THE Company is a new national company for youth music theatre. The Rose And The Ring is at the Dancehouse Theatre.

News: Skins Star Gets Stage Debut in Trafalgar Teen Play (Whatsonstage.com)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:14:15 GMT

The autumn 2008 season in Trafalgar Studios 2, the smaller 100-seater in ATG's two auditoria complex on Whitehall, will comprise two new plays, the Perfect Pitch new musicals showcase and a Harry Potter return for Christmas. First up, Sarah ...

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Explore : Family, Teen, Theatre

Check out what's on stage (Detroit Free Press)

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:33:00 GMT

"The Day Everything Went Wrong": A wacky comedy written by and starring Malcolm Tulip, 8 p.m. Thu.-Fri., 3 & 8 p.m. Sat., 2 p.m. Sun. Through Sept. 7. Performance Network Theatre, 120 E. Huron, Ann Arbor. 734-663-0681. www.performancenetwork.org. $25-$37.

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Hedda - must see production (Theatre)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:26:51 GMT

This is a theatrical highlight of 2008. The play is brilliant and Lucy Kirkwood adapts it excellently (I’m jealous, I didn’t do it - please someone call me next time (!!) I’d give it a good go…). Carrie Cracknell directs with keenness. The physical relationships between the characters staged beautifully, concentrating the language and conflict. The use of [...]

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Bayreuth Festival - Siegfried, Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany (The Stage)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:12:15 GMT

Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany: In general Frank Philipp Schlossmann's set designs for this Ring are good, effective, sometimes beautiful, but in Siegfried, two are mistaken. The first act appears interesting - the entrance hall to a scientific laboratory complete with human skeleton, but it proves no place for forging a sword and results in a muddle despite tremendous singing. Read the full review...

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Bayreuth Festival - Die Walkure, Bayreuth Festival - Die Walkure (The Stage)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:02:16 GMT

Bayreuth Festival - Die Walkure: Frank Philipp Schlossmann's sets for this Tankred Dorst production Ring are most effective in Walkure. Read the full review

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Bayreuth Festival - Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany (The Stage)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:52:16 GMT

Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany: Katharina Wagner at the age of 30 is only a year or two younger than her father and uncle when they launched the reborn Bayreuth Festivals in 1951. An official announcement regarding the future of the direction of the festivals is thought to be likely after the official Bayreuth Foundation meets on September 1. Wolfgang Wagner will be 89 years of age and it is generally...

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Bayreuth Festival - Gotterdammerung, Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany (The Stage)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 16:32:15 GMT

Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany: At the end of a Ring cycle at Bayreuth, it is traditional that first the chorus and then the orchestra fill the stage and are greeted with round after round of applause. Rightly, for they and the marvellous acoustics form Wagner's greatest treasure here. Read the full review

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News: High School Meets Hairspray in New Reality Show (Whatsonstage.com)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:58:16 GMT

A new musical reality TV series begins broadcasting on Sunday (31 August 2008), entitled Hairspray: the School Musical. Fronted by Denise Van Outen (pictured) and airing on Sky One, it sets an ordinary London high school the task of staging a West...

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Hedda, Gate Theatre, London (The Stage)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 14:07:16 GMT

Gate Theatre, London: What happens when you update Ibsen's Hedda Gabler to the present day? Read the full review

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Marguerite and the death of the West End musical (The Guardian - The blog Theatre)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:45:06 GMT

The curtain will fall seven weeks early on Michel Legrand's Marguerite. Was the show flawed or are serious musicals simply doomed in today's Theatreland?

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Bayreuth Festival - Das Rheingold, Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany (The Stage)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:32:17 GMT

Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany: Christian Thielemann has become one of the Wagner conductors who has real understanding of the marvellous acoustics of the Bayreuth Festspielhaus - not all have this, even among the great ones. Read the full review

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Bayreuth Festival - Tristan Und Isolde, Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany (The Stage)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:32:17 GMT

Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany: Christopher Marthaler's 2005 production comes back, virtually unchanged - a presentation which is basically true to Wagner's story but adds a lot of problems, such as modern dress, which remain unsolved. Read the full review

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Bayreuth Festival - Parsifal, Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany (The Stage)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:27:16 GMT

Festspielhaus, Bayreuth, Germany: All Bayreuth lovers have awaited this new Parsifal with either excitement or anxiety, since it replaces the 2004 production (by Schlingensief) which turned Wagner's story upside down and ended by showing a video of a putrifying rabbit. Read the full review

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'Rock Me Sexy Jesus': Too much like 'Little Shop of Horrors'? (Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:04:10 GMT

After seeing the new comedy Hamlet 2, something was bugging me. The film, which depicts a high-school drama teacher's attempt to stage a controversial sequel to Shakespeare's tragedy, culminates with an energetic number called "Rock Me Sexy Jesus." The song,...

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Wicked extends West End run (The Stage)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:12:20 GMT

West End musical Wicked has defied the UK's economic downturn by extending its booking period until September 26, 2009.

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24-hour strike by staff at Glasgow's Tramway and Mitchell theatres (The Stage)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:07:16 GMT

Staff at Glasgow's Tramway and Mitchell Theatres have gone on a 24-hour strike following a pay dispute with the company responsible for delivering leisure activities in the city.

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Flashdance, His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen (The Stage)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:33:15 GMT

His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen: The 1983 film Flashdance was notable for its lead character - a sexy female welder turned contemporary dancer played by Jennifer Beals and for two hit songs, What a Feeling and Maniac. Read the full review

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Strouse to celebrate 80th birthday with UK tour (The Stage)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:12:35 GMT

Composer Charles Strouse, who has written the music to more than 30 stage musicals, 14 scores for Broadway - including Annie, Applause and Bye, Bye Birdie - four Hollywood films, two orchestral works and an opera, will be celebrating his 80th birthday, his 50-year show business career, and the release of his new book Put On a Happy Face - A Broadway Memoir, with a UK tour from September 17 to 23.

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Horrid Henry - Live and Horrid, Lyceum, Sheffield (The Stage)

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:12:17 GMT

Lyceum, Sheffield: "It's alright, but it's not brilliant," said eight-year-old Megan in row K, and I have to say that, for one so young, she has all the makings of a great theatre critic. This is one of those shows that can't fail commercially - a bestselling book that has already hit the jackpot on TV and now comes to the stage, ready sold. Read the full review

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