 | Guest Blog: Equity president Malcolm Sinclair on why My Theatre Matters - and what you should do about it WOS 15 April 2013 Malcolm Sinclair is president of Equity, the UK trade union for actors and creative practitioners, and a long-term sponsor of the Whatsonstage.com Awards. He has just finished playing opposite Rowan.... More... |
 | Class Consciousness in Manchester Theatre - MIF Northwest 14 April 2013 The programme for the Manchester International Festival (MIF) looks interesting. The Albert Hall is being brought into use and the Mayfield Depot is being turned into a performance space. But this is .... More... |
 | Chris Grady: What's in the artistic Potting Shed and Greenhouse.... WOS 12 April 2013 Last week I looked at the growing role of the freelance independent producer, and this week I have been running around seeing how things happen. Audiences hopefully end up seeing a glorious theatrical.... More... |
 | Michael Coveney: So, who wants to run the National Theatre after Hytner? WOS 11 April 2013 When the late Ken Campbell applied to succeed Trevor Nunn as artistic director of the National Theatre, his proposals included plays by Neil Simon, Eugene O'Neill (The Hairy Ape starring Bob Hosk.... More... |
 | Spring Awakens: Top Fringe Tips Northwest 9 April 2013 If you have read my blogs before you know I am a big supporter of the Manchester Fringe Scene, I own Vertigo which is one of the most successful fringe companies in the city and I also review and atte.... More... |
 | Michael Coveney: Farewell at the Royal Court of Thatcher WOS 9 April 2013 On the day Mrs Thatcher died, I caught up with Dominic Cooke's farewell production as artistic director of the Royal Court. The narrator in Bruce Norris's The Low Road is none other than Adam Smith, t.... More... |
 | Michael Coveney: Lights up and down on Griffiths, Griffin and top prices WOS 8 April 2013 My last show before taking an Easter break and a few days in the sun on the Canaries was Peter and Alice at the Noel Coward, and although I enjoyed it, and especially the performance of Ben Whishaw,.... More... |
.jpg) | Delicate & Perfect - Octagon's Glass Menagerie Northwest 7 April 2013 Yesterday afternoon, I got to see The Octagon Theatre's perfect production of Tennessee Williams' classic The Glass Menagerie. Having seen three different productions previously, you would imagine the.... More... |
 | Chris Grady: Do you like SOUP... WOS 4 April 2013 There’s a new energy in the air and it is caused by the buzz of independent creative producers working together and separately to bring new theatrical ideas to life. I was at an Open Space Te.... More... |
 | Chris Grady: Emerging producers can't afford tickets - can you help? WOS 2 April 2013 At my surgery at the National recently I was talking with an emerging producer and we realised that one of her problems is that she cannot afford to see all the work she would like to.She is restric.... More... |