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28/11/12 - The London Stage in 2011
Philip Fisher looks back at London Theatre in 2011.
20/12/11 - Forkbeard Fantasy: Theatre of
Animation
Howard Loxton looks at the exhibition at the South Bank Centre.
08/11/11 - TasteTheatre
Philip Fisher Looks at TasteTheatre, a new theatre marketing website.
06/11/11 - Ambivalences - A Portrait
of Arnold Wesker from A to W
Philip Fisher reviews the book by by Chiara Montenero.
01/11/11 - Directing - A Handbook
for Emerging Theatre Directors
Philip Fisher reviews the book by Rob Swain.
01/11/11 - The Methuen Drama
Guide to Contemporary British Playwrights
Philip Fisher reviews the book edited by Martin Middeke, Peter Paul
Schnierer and Aleks Sierz.
28/10/11 - Panto Is Coming ... Oh, Yes
It Is!
Simon Salden previews the fast approaching panto season.
26/10/11 - Soho Cinders and Smaller
Theatres
Annemarie Lewis Thomas' musical theatre musings for October.
16/10/11 - A New Theatre for the Bush
Howard Loxton looks at the new Bush Theatre.
21/09/11 - Theatre Uncut
Philip Fisher reviews the scripts of 8 short plays performed at the
2011 Edinburgh Fringe.
20/09/11 - Dear Elspeth - a Tribute to
Elspeth Cochrane
Robert Tanitch reports on the tribute to theatrical agent Elspeth Cochrane
at the Arts Theatre.
18/09/11 - Olivia Flies High
Philip Fisher reviews the children's theatre-based book by Lyn Gardner.
12/09/11 - Mintfest 2011
Denis McGeary reports on Kendal's Mintfest 2011.
06/09/11 - Olivia's First Term
Philip Fisher reviews the children's theatre-based book by Lyn Gardner.
06/09/11 - Tanitch on YouTube
Short films by the BTG's Robert Tanitch on YouTube.
15/08/11 - The Octagon Theatre,
Bolton: Concept to Reality
David Chadderton reviews the book by Robin Pemberton-Billing.
05/08/11 - The Methuen Drama
Guide to Contemporary Irish Playwrights
Philip Fisher reviews the book edited by Martin Middeke and Peter Paul
Schnierer.
03/08/11 - Red Plush and Trombones:
The Lonely Trilogy
Philip Fisher reviews the book of three plays by Charles Dyer.
31/07/11 - An Attitude for Acting
Philip Fisher reviews the actor's "self-help" book by Andrew
Tidmarsh and Dr Tara Swart.
31/07/11 - So You Want to Do a Solo
Show?
Philip Fisher reviews the book by Gareth Armstrong.
31/07/11 - Comedy Rules
Philip Fisher reviews the book by Jonathan Lynn.
24/07/11 - How to Run a Theatre
Philip Fisher reviews the book by Jim Volz.
24/07/11 - Arthur Miller 1962
- 2005
Philip Fisher reviews the second volume of the biography by Christopher
Bigsby.
18/07/11 - I, Shakespeare
Philip Fisher reviews four short plays by Tim Crouch.
13/07/11 - Politics, Performance and Popular
Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Simon Sladen reports on the conference at The Storey, Lancaster.
10/07/11 - But What Comes After?
Philip Fisher reviews Ruth Leon's book about Sheridan Morely.
08/07/11 - The Shakespeare Curse
Philip Fisher reviews the novel by J. L. Carrell.
08/07/11 - The Last Flannelled
Fool
Philip Fisher reviews the book by Michael Simkins.
07/07/11 - Beached Opera Refloated
Lee Hall's opera Beached: from cancellation to reinstatement
in three days.
03/07/11 - Three Books on Choreography
Vera Liber reviews three books on choreography: Fifty Contemporary
Choreographers, A Choreographer's Handbook & Choreographing
Empathy: Kinesthesia in Performance
26/06/11 - Deep Heat
Philip Fisher reviews the book by Robin Soans.
26/06/11 - John Gielgud - Matinee Idol
to Movie Star
Philip Fisher reviews the book by Jonathon Croall.
19/06/11 - Investment, not Subsidy
We're in an era of ever more tightening budgets and theatre is going
to have to fight even harder for every penny it gets, so let's start
by being accurate in what we are looking for: not subsidy (= handout)
but investment.
07/06/11 - The Methuen Drama
Book of Plays by Black British Writers
Philip Fisher reviews the book edited and introduced by Lynette Goddard.
06/06/11 - On Theatre
Philip Fisher reviews a collection of Charles Dickens' writings on theatre.
28/05/11 - Slim Chances and Unscheduled
Appearances
Philip Fisher reviews the book by Edward Petherbridge.
20/05/11 - The Fourteenth Theatre Book
Prize
Simon Sladen reports on the presentation ceremony for the winner of
the Theatre Book Prize for books published in 2010.
16/05/11 - Verbatim Musicals
Annemarie Lewis Thomas looks at the verbatim musical London Road
and wonders is this could be a uniquely British musical theatre voice.
15/05/11 - Codpieces
Philip Fisher reviews the book of three short Shakespeare parodies by
Perry Pontac.
08/05/11 - Smut
Philip Fisher reviews two short stories by Alan Bennett.
20/04/11 - Pina Bausch 2012 Season Launch
Vera Liber reports in the launch of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch:
World Cities 2012 and Wim Wenders' film Pina.
12/04/11 - Transformation and
Revelation
Howard Loxton reviews the UK Design for Performance Exhibition 2011.
12/04/11 - Is Britain Fighting Back?
Annemarie Lewis Thomas responds to the ACE NPO announcement and Perfect
Pitch's The Great British Musical.
11/04/11 - Acting for the Better
Philip Fisher reviews the book for amateur actors by Mary Hasbury, with
illustrations by Jill Fenson.
05/04/11 - Enda Walsh Plays:
v. 1
Philip Fisher reviews the first volume of Enda Walsh's collected plays.
05/04/11 - Ken Campbell - The
Great Caper
Philip Fisher reviews the book by Michael Coveney.
31/03/11 - Ballet Boyz
Vera Liber reviews the book by Michael Nunn & William Trevitt, the
"Ballet Boyz".
27/03/11 - There Is Nothing Like a Dame
Simon Salden reports on the Society for Theatre Research's March 2011
lecture.
26/03/11 - Sound Theatre
Philip Fisher reviews David Pownall's book on radio drama.
20/03/11 - Lucky Break
A review of the theatre-based novel by Esther Freud.
15/03/11 - Spiderman or
Peter Pan?
Philip Fisher takes a (slightly cynical) look at the Broadway show with
the longst preview period ever.
15/03/11 - The Well Read Play
Philip Fisher reviews the book by Stephen Unwin.
15/03/11 - The Word for All Time
Kevin Quarmby reports on the discussion 'The Word for All Time: Is the
King James Bible really so special?' organised by the RSC at Stationers'
Hall.
11/03/11 - Facing the Cuts
Our index to features on how theatres across England are preparing to
face cuts in ACE and local council funding.
11/03/11 - Facing the Cuts - Live Theatre,
Newcastle
11/03/11 - Facing the Cuts - Yvonne
Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
11/03/11 - Facing the Cuts - Eastern
Angles, East Anglia
20/03/11 - Facing the Cuts - Forest
Forge, Hampshire
20/03/11 - Facing the Cuts - York Theatre
Royal
03/03/11 - Arts Trends in 2009/10
A look at a new statistical report from Arts Council England on trends
in the arts in 2009/10.
20/02/11 - Applied Theatre
Peter Lathan looks at a voluntary group using theatre to support people
on the autism spectrum and wonders about the 'Big Society'.
20/02/11 - Rewriting the Nation
- British Theatre Today
Philip Fisher reviews the book by Aleks Sierz.
18/02/11 - A Cold Wind in Blackheath
Gill Stoker looks at the possible effects of the withdrawing of funding
from Blackheath Halls in south east London.
07/02/11 - Musical Theatre Musings
Annemarie Lewis Thomas looks at the future for musical theatre in 2011.
07/02/11 - The Art of Translation
Philip Fisher reviews the book by Ranjit Bolt.
07/02/11 - Timberlake Wertenbaker's
Our Country's Good
Philip Fisher reviews the book by Max Stafford-Clark with Maeve McKeown.
01/02/11 - The Sound of Musicals
Philip Fisher reviews the book by Ruth Leon.
28/01/11 - Wanting to Be Batman
Simon Sladen visits the BATMAN LIVE: World Arena Tour open auditions.
18/01/11 - The Midlands Stage in
2010
Steve Orme looks back at theatre in the Midlands in 2010.
14/01/11 - The Best of 2010
Philip Fisher picks the best of - mainly London - theatre in 2010.
14/01/11 - The London Stage in 2010
Philip Fisher surveys London Theatre in 2010.
14/01/11 - Looking Back in Amazement
Inspired by the Black Chiffon revival, Robert Tanitch looks back
at what theatregoers could see in the West End in 1949.
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