Posted by Chris Grierson
Stagey. So where has this word sprung from then? I’m pretty sure it started off a couple of years ago as a semi-affectionate term used to describe an actor/actress (or is it just actor now? Let’s go with actor. Although I mean twirly.) who had more of a keen interest in the gossip and wo...
Posted by Ian Watson
Help! I'm trapped in Preston with nothing more than an ipad for company so I shall try and keep this fairly brief. How are we all feeling about The Voice at this stage in proceedings? I'm guessing there aren't paramedics on standby at every street corner to deal with the millions of over excit...
Posted by Jonathan Mandell
At one of the many receptions in May for the nominees of one of the many, many New York theater awards, I asked Audra McDonald when she first knew she wanted to be a performer. “My sister got a trophy for diving off the diving board when I was 9," she said. "I wanted a trophy.” She has...
Posted by Fourthwall Magazine
Preparation for the Olympics are well on their way and word on the street is that theatres, certainly across the Capital, are practically begging producers to fill slots in June and July. Although the Evening Standard newspaper is reporting that tourism for the Olympics and Jubilee celebra...
Posted by Ian Watson
LIVE, LIVE, LIVE! The BBC love a bit of LIVE don’t they? They spend so much money sending people out to report LIVE for no reason whatsoever because they just can’t get enough of it. Some poor, soaked and miserable journo has to stand outside the houses of parliament to talk about ...
Posted by Ian Watson
Finally! We can drop the whole, “We’re not the X-Factor. Honestly!” nonsense and get down to a reality sing-off that resembles reality. The good old BBC decided, of course, to do things a little differently though by just having two teams battle it out instead of all four. Why mig...
Posted by Ian Watson
Before you ask, yes I have watched both ‘battle rounds’ of The Voice this weekend. Anyone who was on twitter, and if you weren’t then it’s probably time to pull the red chord and get the nurse to tell you what it is, will know that I was tweeting my bitchy little bum off thro...
Posted by Jonathan Mandell
A man was walking in Times Square near the TKTS discount theater booth wearing underpants and carrying a huge wooden cross. It says something about the peculiar season we are in that many theatergoers just assumed he was promoting a show – perhaps Jesus Christ Superstar? It’s to...
Posted by Ian Watson
So the ‘blind’ auditions are over at last. They may have been about as blind as the ‘all-seeing-eye’ but more on that later. I want to get the good stuff out of the way before I rant about the auditions because, regardless of what may or may not be wrong with it, we’ve...
Posted by Ian Watson
Do you ever get the feeling that the world has cocked a formerly deaf ear in your direction? I’m starting to suspect that those savvy telly types at The Voice are listening to tutting head shakers like me and chucking in a few tweaks, albeit too late. Week three has been something of a turnin...
