Nationwide stage: Devon invests in the cream of the theatre crop
The question of whether ‘regional theatre’ is in any way a useful term was being debated once again over on Lyn Gardner’s Guardian theatre blog recently. One of the comments made under the post, in...
View ArticleNationwide stage: Can Sansom repeat his Northampton success in Scotland?
As the cast took their bows at the end of the Royal & Derngate’s production of Willy Russell’s One for the Road last week, the show’s director Laurie Sansom was called up to the stage by Paul...
View ArticleNationwide stage: Sad day as Brewhouse theatre calls time
A candlelit vigil was held on Friday 22 to mark the passing of the Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre in Taunton following its closure as a result of cuts to arts funding over recent years. This is a...
View ArticleNationwide stage: Little theatres, big visions
One of the consequences of the recent closure of The Brewhouse in Taunton, in addition to the loss of jobs is and the more long-lasting impact it is likely to have on the cultural life of the local...
View ArticleNationwide stage: From Leeds to Brighton
Even while winter refuses to let loose its white, spiny grip on the country, plans are well underway for the coming wave of spring and summer theatre festivals and last week I got a taste of two...
View ArticleNationwide stage: Sustaining the arts and our environment
I like to travel light. I’m happiest when I can cram everything into one bag and sling it on my shoulder. I’ve never had to squeeze a whole theatre production into one suitcase though, but this...
View ArticleNationwide stage: Our theatre foyers need a ‘not-empty’ space award
In the usual way of things a theatre – as a building, as a public space – usually only comes fully to life once, perhaps twice, a day. Speaking at the Barbican in a talk on the evolution of arts venues...
View ArticleNationwide stage: Norfolk, the home of experimental theatre
In performance terms, the centrepiece of this year’s Norfolk and Norwich Festival is the presentation of all five episodes of Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s epic Life and Times project but the...
View ArticleNationwide stage: Theatre in the great outdoors beyond London
A resplendently bearded American man serves me a burger (well, a veggie burger) before returning his attention back to his grill and the queue of hungry people behind me. The sun is out and it’s just...
View ArticleNationwide stage: The wonders of Watford
In a time when funding cuts and purse-string tightening are the general way of things, it’s heartening to see an example of a borough council and a theatre working closely together to create work for...
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