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Michael Coveney, newly appointed chief critic of whatsonstage.com, has a critical piece on the Spacey regime at the Old Vic in today's Observer: Another opening at the Old Vic, another chorus of disapproval in the media. Kevin Spacey, artistic director for nearly three years, flew in from
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Kevin Spacey will not be driven out as artistic director of the Old Vic, his right-hand man [David Liddiment] has insisted, after a week in which the theatre's star-studded production of Arthur Miller's Resurrection Blues took a spectacular drubbing from critics.
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Rainbow Network meets Rory Kinnear, who stars in Samuel Adamson's new play Southwark Fair which opens tonight at the National Theatre. Many of the people who gravitate towards cities are searching for something they can’t quite put a finger on and Southwark Fair is about
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Sunday in the Park with George - currently playing at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark Street - transfers to the Wyndham's Theatre in May.
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Missing in action: Set in contemporary London, its cast of seven fall in love, flirt, argue and form new alliances, just as characters do in most dramas written in this quirky-romantic mode. But they are introduced in unconventional ways, though ones perfectly appropriate to life today.
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Samuel Adamson interviewed in the Daily Telegraph about his new play - set in SE1 - which opens this month at the National Theatre
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Shakespeare's Globe makes £1.5 m profit without any subsidy The Shakespeare Globe Theatre turned conventional thinking about arts subsidy on its head yesterday when it disclosed that it had made a pre-tax profit of about £1.5 million every year since it
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Guardian Unlimited's Culture Vulture has details of The Stage's top 100 movers and shakers of 2005. Lots of locals as you might expect, including the National's Nicholas Hytner - number 8 - and Kevin Spacey. New entrants include David Babani and Danielle Tarento of the Menier
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Two of Southwark's fringe theatre venues are going head-to-head for a prestigious Time Out Live Award. Both the Menier Chocolate Factory on Southwark Street and the Union Theatre on Union Street have been shortlisted in the Favourite Fringe Venue category. You can vote here; the deadline
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The Stage has the story: Children’s author David Wood was joined by Rudi Dharmalingham, Stephanie Sewell and Debra Penny at the new Unicorn Theatre in Southwark to celebrate Sewell’s success in the Blue Peter national Storytelling Competition.
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They're not having much luck down at the Old Vic. This time last year, the first night of Aladdin was cancelled due to technical difficulties. Then in October there was a power cut which held up the first night of Trevor Nunn's production of Richard II.
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This time by Hugh Pearman in the Sunday Times and Kate Kellaway in the Observer. This line in Kellaway's piece is worth pointing out: Serendipity has been on the theatre's side. Next to it, Unicorn Passage (once Unicorn Yard) sidles down to the Thames. By an
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