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Does West End theatre feature on Boris Johnson’s list of mayoral priorities? Right and proper as it is that he’s devoting immediate attention to dealing with knife crime and the troubling state of lawlessness on the capital’s streets, there’s nothing trivial about focusing some energy, and swiftly too, on the shoddy state of London’s commercial […]

I’m in New York on a flying visit and happened to catch the Manhattan transfer of Boeing-Boeing, as revived by Matthew Warchus on its opening night at the Longacre Theater, on Sunday. With so many British contenders for the dwindling American buck on the Great White Way (Goold’s Macbeth, Eyre’s Mary Poppins, Macdonald’s Top Girls […]

I read in the Daily Mail, in Baz Bamigboye’s Friday showbiz pages - filed from New York - that Stephen Daldry has vowed that he won’t tame the language in Billy Elliot - the Musical when the show opens on Broadway in October. Producers apparently asked him whether he could get rid of the swearing but he […]

Watching Noel Fielding performing at the Royal Albert Hall the other night, as part of the week of gigs there in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, I was struck by two things. Firstly, that part of Fielding’s star-quality resides, rarely for a stand-up comedian, in his flamboyance. He dresses glam-rock (make-up, girly accessories, outrageous […]

Time to get peddling - and pedalling
Visiting the Arcola in Dalston the other night to see An Enemy of the People, I was impressed to read up about their ongoing scheme to make ‘Arcola the world’s first carbon neutral theatre’: The aim is to install ‘biomass heating, solar panels, fuel cells and state of the […]

Lunch at the National on Thursday this week to raise a glass to Sir Tom Stoppard – receiving an outstanding contribution to the arts award from the Critics Circle, that august outfit that represents, in a rather retiring way, the interests of the ‘critical community’. Sir Tom, sometimes referred to as God by Indy motormouth […]

So here it is. Welcome to the all-new theatrevoice.com blog. It’s not as if people have been mounting petitions demanding one but we reckoned we should try one out all the same. It was long overdue, in fact - and it so happens that the launch of it coincides with the coming together of Rose […]