A sneak preview into the world of The Stage, the UK’s newspaper for the entertainment performing arts industry.
An occasional series of interviews with names from the world of theatre, broadcasting and all avenues of the performing arts.
One of the country’s leading theatre reviewers, Mark Shenton offers news, opinion, commentary and the occasional anecdote about theatre in the West End, Broadway, and further afield. Mark is also theatre critic for the Sunday Express and other theatrical publications.
TV Today: Harry and Paul (Friday 9pm, BBC1) A return for Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse in a second run of brand new character sketch comedy, although the title Ruddy Hell! It’s Harry and Paul has been slimmed down to the...
Shenton’s View: There is no shortage of theatre spaces in London, of course, of all shapes, sizes and all-too-often, states of disrepair. Some of this is being addressed - subsidised houses from the Royal Court to the Royal Opera House and...
In The Paper: Owing to circumstances beyond our control, I regret to advise that major parts of The Stage Online will not be updated for a minimum of two weeks and, unfortunately, this means the recruitment section will not be available online...
TV Today: I’m a little disappointed to see that last night’s opening episode of the ITV1/Mammoth Screen comedy drama, Lost in Austen , attracted a paltry audience of 3.8 million and a 17% share . By anybody’s standards, that’s pretty dismal...
Shenton’s View: It’s an occupational hazard of going to the theatre professionally that you’re going to have bad nights from time to time; but at least I can remind myself that I’ve not paid for my tickets to add a waste...
TV Today: There are days in the world of a dedicated TV blogger where the muse just does not come - and when the biggest story of the day is that the BBC has spent £10m on flights in the last...
Shenton’s View: I like to think of this blog as my daily fibre: something that anchors my journalistic day by its regularity. But as well as writing here, and for other websites, too, from playbill.com to occasional Guardian blogs , I...
TV Today: Some tantalising titbits of the drama season ahead across the BBC’s output have cropped up in a supremely confident autumn season trailer that was unveiled yesterday . Curiously, a couple of shows in the line-up are already up and...
Shenton’s View: You may be forgiven for thinking that the summer never arrived at all, but now that August 31 - the last official day of summer, according to meteorologists — has come and gone, at least we can stop hoping...
Shenton’s View: I don’t usually post a second daily entry here, but the news of the premature death yesterday of theatrical visionary Ken Campbell, at the age of 66, means that my own rule needs to be broken. But then Campbell...
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